Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 400

[genericptr]

Trying to download some playlists and getting this error on some URL's but not others. Is this a local problem from my internet perhaps someone could test? Thanks.

MacBooks-MacBook-2:iron chef 2 ryanjoseph$ youtube-dl --verbose -o '%(stitle)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaQc4YXhlTa9mhSJ3aBeoFo92O6Klrgdz
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-o', '%(stitle)s.%(ext)s', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaQc4YXhlTa9mhSJ3aBeoFo92O6Klrgdz']
WARNING: %(stitle)s is deprecated. Use the %(title)s and the --restrict-filenames flag(which also secures %(uploader)s et al) instead.
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.02.10.5
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:playlist] PLaQc4YXhlTa9mhSJ3aBeoFo92O6Klrgdz: Downloading webpage
[youtube:playlist] PLaQc4YXhlTa9mhSJ3aBeoFo92O6Klrgdz: Downloading page #1
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 308, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1611, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 442, in error
result = self._call_chain(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 629, in http_error_302
return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[bilenyok]

youtube-dl -U --verbose --ignore-errors --playlist-start=1 --max-quality=FMT -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaQc4YXhlTa9mhSJ3aBeoFo92O6Klrgdz

Same error.

[genericptr]

Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I'll try this later until presumubly it will starting working.

[phihag]

When I click "load more" in my webbrowser on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaQc4YXhlTa9mhSJ3aBeoFo92O6Klrgdz , I do not see any more videos. youtube-dl is just relaying the error. You can pass in a small --playlist-end value to just get the first videos.

Since this is an error on YouTube's side that affects the webbrowser as well, I don't think there is anything we can do about it but wait for YouTube to notice and fix the problem. Sorry!

Since I do think that youtube-dl is doing the right think here by relaying the error, I am closing this issue. Feel free to suggest an alternative behavior and we will reopen it.

[bilenyok]

Tkans Philipp, we are waiting to fix the problem by youtube.

[genericptr]

Interesting, I'm seeing 155 videos on my browser (Safari Mac) and no indication of errors. Maybe about geographical location (I'm in Asia now)?. Strange but I'll wait and see what happens later.