Tele-Quebec broken (403 error)

Checklist

• [x ] I’m reporting a broken site support
• [x ] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.03.06
• [x ] I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x ] I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [x ] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://zonevideo.telequebec.tv/media/51519/au-detour-du-terroir/un-chef-a-la-cabane']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[TeleQuebec] 51519: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Using fake IP 99.235.23.177 (CA) as X-Forwarded-For.
[limelight] 2b74f8a94154426bbc2c6901cba56a3e: Downloading PlaylistService getPlaylistByMediaId JSON
[limelight] 2b74f8a94154426bbc2c6901cba56a3e: Downloading API properties JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: 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\tmp6_nk0mi2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp6_nk0mi2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, 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

Description

Cannot download episodes from Tele-Quebec “Un Chef à la cabane”. It used to work as I downloaded the first 4 episodes of that show in February.

[Yavos]

The geo-restricted tag is probably because the video of the original issue is geo-restricted and you can’t test downloading and fixing the bug that way unless you are in that country.

My assumption is that limelight player changed something and now it doesn’t use that API properties JSON anymore causing the plugin to fail.

I’m gonna try fixing it soon for pokemon.com, but I can’t test it with telequebec.tv myself.

[edit] old API is now deprecated. It apparently took a few days to get disabled: link to deprecation note

[edit 2] new API needs Authentication which basically makes it impossible to get the wanted episode metadata without a limelight account (or even the account from the corresponding organization). need for Authentication (see method List all properties for a specific media) Authentication procedure So I’m gonna stop trying to fix limelight for now.

It should still be possible to extract metadata from the pc and mobile playlists though not as complete and detailed as the API response. Maybe that might suffice for now.

[flabrie]

I can confirm that your fix works for telequebec.tv as well!