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go.tlc.com Broken

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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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Description

As the title states, https://go.tlc.com is broken. It always returns with the error:

This video is only available for registered users. You may want to use --cookies.

I believe part of the issue to be is when you export a cookie from the site to feed into yt-dlp (using EditThisCookie), it does not export the st cookie. (token). And then the override method here for the base class does not allow it to use the _get_auth method to grab a new token programmatically.

Even after playing with the source myself to allow it to grab a new token programmatically so it grabs the st cookie, it returns a 404: not found'.

And since I didn’t run it originally with the -U command, here is output proving I am on the latest version:

> python -m yt_dlp -U
Latest version: 2022.02.04, Current version: 2022.02.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.02.04)

Verbose log

Without "st" cookie token:

> python -m yt_dlp 'https://go.tlc.com/video/cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins' --verbose --cookies ..\tCookie.txt
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://go.tlc.com/video/cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins', '--verbose', '--cookies', '..\\tCookie.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef] (source)
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Python version 3.8.2 (CPython 32bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-94563-g3aeb681f07, ffprobe N-94563-g3aeb681f07
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [TLC] Extracting URL: https://go.tlc.com/video/cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins
[debug] Using fake IP 6.150.51.161 (US) as X-Forwarded-For
[TLC] cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: [TLC] cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins: This video is only available for registered users. You may want to use --cookies.
  File "C:\NeverFindMe\yt-dlp-2022.02.04\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 612, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\NeverFindMe\yt-dlp-2022.02.04\yt_dlp\extractor\dplay.py", line 369, in _real_extract
    return self._get_disco_api_info(url, self._match_id(url), **self._DISCO_API_PARAMS)
  File "C:\NeverFindMe\yt-dlp-2022.02.04\yt_dlp\extractor\dplay.py", line 92, in _get_disco_api_info
    self._process_errors(e, geo_countries)
  File "C:\NeverFindMe\yt-dlp-2022.02.04\yt_dlp\extractor\dplay.py", line 50, in _process_errors
    raise ExtractorError(

After playing with the source to allow it to grab a new token:
> python -m yt_dlp 'https://go.tlc.com/video/cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins' --verbose --cookies ..\tCookie.txt
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://go.tlc.com/video/cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins', '--verbose', '--cookies', '..\\tCookie.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef] (source)
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Python version 3.8.2 (CPython 32bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-94563-g3aeb681f07, ffprobe N-94563-g3aeb681f07
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [TLC] Extracting URL: https://go.tlc.com/video/cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins
[debug] Using fake IP 6.232.106.196 (US) as X-Forwarded-For
[TLC] cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: [TLC] cake-boss-tlc-atve-us/creeps-carvings-and-coffins: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); 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 404: 'Not Found'>); 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 "C:\NeverFindMe\yt-dlp-2022.02.04\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 730, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "C:\NeverFindMe\yt-dlp-2022.02.04\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3558, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "C:\Users\Vash\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Users\Vash\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "C:\Users\Vash\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Users\Vash\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\Vash\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)