HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (cannot use yt-dlp)

[Dennis Ignacio]

The yt-dlp package seems to be outdated. A solution has been posted on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7811 which states that the updated version 2023.07.06 fixes the issue. Suggestion (if possible): update yt-dlp to version 2023.09.24 which is the latest at the time of writing.

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu

$ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 23.04
Release: 23.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

$ apt-cache policy yt-dlp
yt-dlp:
  Installed: 2023.03.04-1
  Candidate: 2023.03.04-1
  Version table:
 *** 2023.03.04-1 500
        500 http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What you expected to happen

When running the yt-dlp command, I expected yt-dlp to download video/audio from Youtube

4) What happened instead

Sample output:

$ yt-dlp -x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbzI7D0c7c
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbzI7D0c7c
[youtube] ODbzI7D0c7c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ODbzI7D0c7c: Downloading android player API JSON
[info] ODbzI7D0c7c: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 1
[download] Destination: Wala Man Sa'yo Ang Lahat -Lyrics- ｜ Myrus Ramirez [ODbzI7D0c7c].webm
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (1/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (2/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (3/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (4/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (5/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (6/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (7/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (8/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (9/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (10/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Giving up after 10 retries
ERROR: fragment 1 not found, unable to continue

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: yt-dlp 2023.03.04-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-34.34-generic 6.2.16
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 5 17:49:47 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-10-05 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: yt-dlp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Unit 193 (unit193)]

G'day!

yt-dlp is up to date in Mantic (well, Debian and mantic-proposed technically) and jammy-backports has a fixed version of yt-dlp, as you can see on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yt-dlp

As lunar-backports isn't open for uploads, I guess your options are to either download yt-dlp otherwise, wait for mantic to release, use jammy and yt-dlp from backports, or I guess add jammy-backports and hope nothing breaks.

[Dennis Ignacio (dsvignacio)]

Thanks for the reply!

I didn't know lunar-backports are now closed. I guess I'm just going to wait for Mantic to arrive. A few days of waiting won't hurt.

Thank you.