[Help needed] Some youtube videos giving 403 error

[kumarvaradarajulu]

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I am trying to build a bot to download videos from Youtube. My server crawls the specific Youtube account and if there are new videos the download links are added to my web site, which is used by quite a few of my friends to download the new videos.

The issue I have is, I get 403 forbidden error. If I try to use youtube-dl command line to download the vide on my server or my machine it works fine. But when I use the download url got from the server on my machine it does not work. I have tried settings cookies, updating http headers to be the same as server, Still no luck. Went through a host of Stackoverflow questions and FAQ of youtube-dl and tried every method, it still doesn't work.

Failing video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD2hj6zJEc

• Resolved download url on server
• Resolved download url on my machine

Another failing video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3FCn_QYf8g

• Resolved download url on server
• Resolved download url on my machine

Successful vide link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqTnMYK4kw

• Resolved download url on server
• Resolved download url on my machine

Any help or advise on this would be much appreciated. Hope I have followed the guidelines to post.

[yan12125]

Have you tried #9001 (comment)?

[kumarvaradarajulu]

Thank you @yan12125 I seemed to have missed that post. With quick check it works fine. Will check in detail and report back here.

[yan12125]

Seems the problem is resolved. Closing.

[kumarvaradarajulu]

Yes the issue is solved. Had to deploy the updated code to the server and run tests hence the delay. Thank you very much.