YouTube error

[benoon]

It's just me or anyone with the same problem with youtube ?

ERROR: unable to download video

[ghost]

It's broken here too, YT is now sending 403s for the /videoplayback request on all videos.

[bparker06]

Broken for me as well, just tried with latest git master:

$ python2 ./youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovdm2yX4MA&feature=relmfu"
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] _ovdm2yX4MA: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] _ovdm2yX4MA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] _ovdm2yX4MA: Extracting video information

ERROR: unable to download video

[rubiohiguey]

yes, same problem here, on two different servers. This problem has been since Wednesday night US time.

[ladavid]

Also seeing the same problem.

[vandana-iyer]

same problem here as well.

[josephj]

Same problem in taiwan.

存取網頁遭到拒絕
您無權瀏覽位於 http://o-o---preferred---sn-45gx5nuvox-3iie---v6---lscache2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?upn=WcJ7Af8MHKA&sparams=cp%2Cgcr%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cratebypass%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&fexp=909521%2C924805%2C908476%2C900805%2C922401%2C920704%2C912806%2C913419%2C913546%2C913556%2C919349%2C919351%2C925109%2C919003%2C920201%2C912706&ms=au&expire=1348740381&itag=45&ipbits=8&gcr=tw&sver=3&ratebypass=yes&mt=1348715532&ip=218.211.33.134&mv=m&source=youtube&key=yt1&cp=U0hTTVdPTl9NS0NOM19PSVJEOl9VeGZ2UkZkVjI3&id=de8d9e262af49d3b 的網頁，您可能需要登入才能瀏覽這個網頁。
HTTP 錯誤 403 (Forbidden)：伺服器拒絕處理這項要求。

[kenrestivo]

Yes seeing this too (and it looks like there are now two issues with same problem, I just commented on the other one).

Latest master commit on Python 2.7.3.

I suspect some bad DRM-related decision got made in the executive suite at Google.

[vegagame]

The same problem in my 5 servers, Italy, Usa, Germany, Panama and Malesia

[rbb36]

Fix is available in issue #428.

[phihag]

I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2012.09.27. Run youtube-dl --update to update youtube-dl. Please reopen the issue if this update fails to correct the problem.

[holybladder]

Yep, update fixes it. Good work phihag!