VEVO download failed

[tikilab]

• [x ] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.05.01
• [x ] At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• [x ] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• [x ] Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.vevo.com/watch/GBUV71600656
[debug] System config: [u'-o', u'/Volumes/External HD/YouTube DLs/YouTube_%(upload_date)s_%(uploader)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'--write-description', u'--write-thumbnail', u'--all-subs', u'--sub-format', u'srt', u'--merge-output-format', u'mkv']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.vevo.com/watch/GBUV71600656']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.3, ffprobe 2.6.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Vevo] GBUV71600656: Downloading video info
[Vevo] Retrieving oauth token
[Vevo] GBUV71600656: Downloading api video info
[Vevo] GBUV71600656: Downloading video versions info
ERROR: Failed to download video versions info: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 388, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1942, 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 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
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Ran into this error today. I did update to the latest version, but the error remains the same.

[dstftw]

Can you watch it in browser without any kind of unblocking tools in the first place?

[tikilab]

Yes, it plays fine in the browser.

[dstftw]

This issue has been fixed and fix will be incorporated in the next version of youtube-dl.