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Dropout.tv hosted on vhx.tv

See original GitHub issue

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
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
I’ve read the guidelines for opening an issue
I’ve read about sharing account credentials and I’m willing to share it if required

Region

Europe

Description

Downloading a video from dropout.tv fails with a 403 Error.
Using the exact same method worked on previous days.
Using a browser, streaming the video is still possible. My account should be fine.
Setting the --user-agent and cookies to the same values as my browser had no effect. But maybe I missed some other way this program might be detected.

Sadly, I do not feel safe sharing my account. But I am willing to help in the debug process.

Example URL https://www.dropout.tv/dimension-20/season:7/videos/sophomores-start

Verbose log

user@computer:/home/user/$ yt-dlp -vU --username "account" --password "hunter2" https://www.dropout.tv/dimension-20/season:7/videos/sophomores-start
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.dropout.tv/dimension-20/season:7/videos/sophomores-start']
[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 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.4.0-100-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, secretstorage, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.02.04, Current version: 2022.02.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.02.04)
[debug] [Dropout] Extracting URL: https://www.dropout.tv/dimension-20/season:7/videos/sophomores-start
[Dropout] sophomores-start: Getting authenticity token
[Dropout] sophomores-start: Logging in
[Dropout] sophomores-start: Downloading video webpage
[Dropout] sophomores-start: Logging out
[debug] [vhx:embed] Extracting URL: https://embed.vhx.tv/videos/630456?api=1&amp;auth-user-token= <redacted>
[vhx:embed] 630456: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [vhx:embed] 630456: 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 "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 730, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3558, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)