Crunchyroll: `<HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>`

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.02.04. (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
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Region

Canada

Description

Trying to download this video from Crunchyroll gives an error - details can be found in the verbose log

Verbose log

$ yt-dlp https://www.crunchyroll.com/sword-art-online/episode-1-the-world-of-swords-606739 --verbose
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.crunchyroll.com/sword-art-online/episode-1-the-world-of-swords-606739', '--verbose']
[debug] User config "/Users/wilsonchan/.config/yt-dlp/config": ['--add-metadata']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, err UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef]
[debug] Python version 3.7.4 (CPython 64bit) - Darwin-21.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [crunchyroll] Extracting URL: https://www.crunchyroll.com/sword-art-online/episode-1-the-world-of-swords-606739
[crunchyroll] 606739: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [crunchyroll] 606739: Unable to download webpage: 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 -U (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 -U
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 730, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3558, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 563, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 755, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[CZeil]

Share me verbose to this command yt-dlp -F https://www.crunchyroll.com/sword-art-online/episode-1-the-world-of-swords-606739 -v

[Wilann]

It all worked out! Thanks so much @CZeil

If anyone comes across this in the future, I edited the config file like so:

-i URL1
URL2
...

-f '(bv[height<=1080]+ba/b[height<=1080])[format_note*=Uncut]/
(bv[height<=1080]+ba/b[height<=1080])[format_note*=Simulcast]'

--sub-lang en_Uncut,en --embed-subs --sub-format vtt

-o '%(series)s S%(season_number)sE%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s'

--download-archive 'archive.txt'

--extractor-args funimation:language=japanese

-N 5

--add-metadata --no-check-certificates -w --remux-video mp4