Cant download video from WBM: CDX HTTP error 403?

Checklist

• I’m reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.03.08.1. (update instructions)
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
• I’ve read the guidelines for opening an issue

Description

As I’m trying to launch and download a video using YT-DLP

I pasted the URL from The Wayback Machine, which was a YouTube video.

It started processing, but got stuck at: “yt_dlp.utils.EaxtractorError: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: ‘Forbidden’>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the “Broken site” issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U”

Using the latest version available.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Y2K5Or

Verbose log

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20200206160356/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0G5wbk4klA']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.03.08.1 [c0c2c57] (win_exe)
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2021-10-24-git-9df3f147f5-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2021-10-24-git-9df3f147f5-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: brotli, Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}

[justsandro]

Hmm. I’m getting the same thing

The CDX api is returning org.archive.util.io.RuntimeIOException: org.archive.wayback.exception.AdministrativeAccessControlException: Blocked Site Error

This was definitely working a couple days ago 😕

Yeah, seems weird. Not sure if this is due to bug inside the yt-dlp program or its thanks to way back machine URL. By the way, thank you for editing the labels. This is my first post ever on GitHub, regarding a error for a software program 😃

[justsandro]

Also looks like the CDX API block for /watch urls has been fixed, so will close this issue. 😃

Thanks for the reply! Appreciate all help very much