ARD-Mediathek: Error 403

[kevinm90]

When I try to download a video from ARD Mediathek (ardmediathek.de) it gives me the following error:
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError());

Edit: I tried to download http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Tatort/Grenzfall-Video-tgl-ab-20-Uhr/Das-Erste/Video?documentId=26935962&bcastId=602916

[dstftw]

Post the full output you get when running with --verbose option.

[kevinm90]

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Tatort/Grenzfall-Video-tgl-ab-20-Uhr/Das-Erste/Video?documentId=26935962&bcastId=602916
[1] 26040
XXXXX-MacBook-Pro-2:~ XXXXXXX$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Tatort/Grenzfall-Video-tgl-ab-20-Uhr/Das-Erste/Video?documentId=26935962']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.03.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump Reason
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ARD:mediathek] 26935962: Downloading webpage
[ARD:mediathek] 26935962: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://mvideos-geo.daserste.de/videoportal/Film/c_510000/513000/format609631.mp4'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1381, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1356, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 341, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 64, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1675, 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 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)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[dstftw]

Can you watch it in browser right now?
It tells me that

Diese Sendung ist für Jugendliche unter 12 Jahren nicht geeignet. Der Clip ist deshalb nur von 20 bis 6 Uhr verfügbar.

[kevinm90]

No, I can't. But i could download it before. Maybe they fixed this backdoor to bypass the youth-protection :(

[dstftw]

In the next version this error will be captured and shown by youtube-dl. Thanks for the report.

[kevinm90]

Great, thanks for the very quick responses and fix.