Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError())

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
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

Verbose log

youtube-dl.exe https://cdn.vidyard.com/hls-videos/uOnFGlfrMECrVyZW-IC3vQ/stream_master_n9HYXx8RhD56f2z7vMEdQQ.m3u8?bkzlhYmEJ9O_HhZrvISndjxgx4ZmhNQOMiv8iFzv5oVE0h7mwHFI7l8v6z6vnal7d7YKB0isXG2grsxLMi_1O8dWbktYQyYdKBbQJQkwKVGWr6NbZQhQGMrT6vJdFV6ZkxB4vo3gljaQhuyACEAnwxhHUeKhbQp2bRorJGJZcdq3CCcJzO6yPdpKVz_HoKtc7JXc -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://cdn.vidyard.com/hls-videos/uOnFGlfrMECrVyZW-IC3vQ/stream_master_n9HYXx8RhD56f2z7vMEdQQ.m3u8?bkzlhYmEJ9O_HhZrvISndjxgx4ZmhNQOMiv8iFzv5oVE0h7mwHFI7l8v6z6vnal7d7YKB0isXG2grsxLMi_1O8dWbktYQyYdKBbQJQkwKVGWr6NbZQhQGMrT6vJdFV6ZkxB4vo3gljaQhuyACEAnwxhHUeKhbQp2bRorJGJZcdq3CCcJzO6yPdpKVz_HoKtc7JXc', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] stream_master_n9HYXx8RhD56f2z7vMEdQQ: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://cdn.vidyard.com/hls-videos/uOnFGlfrMECrVyZW-IC3vQ/stream_master_n9HYXx8RhD56f2z7vMEdQQ.m3u8?bkzlhYmEJ9O_HhZrvISndjxgx4ZmhNQOMiv8iFzv5oVE0h7mwHFI7l8v6z6vnal7d7YKB0isXG2grsxLMi_1O8dWbktYQyYdKBbQJQkwKVGWr6NbZQhQGMrT6vJdFV6ZkxB4vo3gljaQhuyACEAnwxhHUeKhbQp2bRorJGJZcdq3CCcJzO6yPdpKVz_HoKtc7JXc: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[generic] stream_master_n9HYXx8RhD56f2z7vMEdQQ: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen     File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default