Viewster: Downloading no longer working

[daphee]

Tested using a fresh build of master.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.viewster.com/serie/1280-18794-000']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.09.03
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Linux-4.1.6-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.2, ffprobe 2.7.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Viewster] 1280-18794-000: Downloading webpage
[Viewster] 1280-18794-000: Downloading entry JSON
[Viewster] 1280-18794-000: Downloading series JSON
[download] Downloading playlist: Gintama
[Viewster] playlist Gintama: Collected 49 video ids (downloading 49 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 49
[Viewster] 1280-18794-001: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (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 "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 326, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1865, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 469, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 579, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 501, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 441, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 684, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 469, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 579, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 507, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 441, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 587, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

I investigated a little already.

With help from the chrome developer console I found out that the bare minimum of auth for downloading the video from viewsterall-vh.akamaihd.net is this

curl -H 'Cookie: _alid_=t2g86FO0BEW7O6Gjf7dHhg==' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.85 Safari/537.36' --compressed 'http://viewsterall-vh.akamaihd.net/z/http_rtmpe/shared/s/viewster-0037-00-AkamaiHD/1280-18794-040_gintama-s01eps40_movie_viewster-0037-00-akamaihd_ja_en_x.smil/1125000_a870b9d0fef60587_Seg1-Frag1?hdntl=exp=1441712408~acl=%2fz%2fhttp_rtmpe%2fshared%2fs%2fviewster-0037-00-AkamaiHD%2f1280-18794-040_gintama-s01eps40_movie_viewster-0037-00-akamaihd_ja_en_x.smil%2f*~data=hdntl~hmac=067affecfc806bd7bc87896e7e0f0bba3061a010a9d74dc4b32a7a35a1448d9b&als=0,3,NaN,2,0,NaN,0,0,0,32,f,0,1450.99,f,s,QSMTGXJGTJNA,3.2.0,32&hdcore=3.2.0&plugin=flowplayer-3.2.0.1'

It seems that the alid cookie is the auth_token extracted from the initial auth_token cookie.

I tried adding this cookie with _set_cookie but it didn't work out.

[dstftw]

Can you watch it in browser now?

[daphee]

You mean with the viewsterall-vh.akamaihd.net link?

No I get an Authroization Error, too.

Navigating to viewster.com and watching the video works, of course.

[dstftw]

I mean the original URL http://www.viewster.com/serie/1280-18794-000. It does not work for me in browser.

[daphee]

Okay, sorry.

Weird. It does for me. I just opened your link from here with incognito mode and I get the first episode.

What do you get instead?

[dstftw]

[daphee]

Have you scripts enabled?

I just tried with firefox and the 404 shows for a very short time because that is the only thing in the page source but then the correct page renders.

[dstftw]

Yes, I have. http://www.viewster.com/movie/1140-11855-000, http://www.viewster.com/serie/1303-19426-000/ works fine.
404 for US, UK, DE and RU IPs.

[dstftw]

What's your location?

[daphee]

DE