Constantly getting "ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" issue; no matter what.

[unbreakify]

I've updated it and i still get the ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden error. Not sure why? Refuses to download youtube videos anymore. Docker Desktop also continuously begs me to "WSL integration with distro 'Ubuntu-22.04' unexpectedly stopped. Do you want to restart it?" but anytime i click Restart or Skip, it simply kicks me back to the same error.

[PikuZheng]

log please

[cumal]

Hi!
I'm getting the same error. I use it as a container, and previously it worked fine...

LOG:
INFO:ytdl:adding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IbPn5j2YKk: quality='best' format='any' already=None folder=None custom_name_prefix='' playlist_strict_mode=False playlist_item_limit=0
INFO:aiohttp.access:AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA [18/Jan/2025:13:12:39 +0100] "POST /delete HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "http://AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA:8081/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0"
DEBUG:ytdl:Processing as a video
INFO:ytdl:downloading Day Tripper (Remastered 2015)
INFO:aiohttp.access:AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA [18/Jan/2025:13:12:39 +0100] "POST /add HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "http://AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA:8081/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0"
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
INFO:ytdl:waiting for item to download

--> EDIT <--
Updated to the latest image and it's working again. I thought compose update the images automatically... Sorry!!

[PikuZheng]

it's a known issue of yt-dlp yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11868

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

I think unreasonable http headers are more likely to lead to being banned. choose only windows+chrome or osx+safari

[unbreakify]

log please

Sorry, how do i send the log?

[henriquesebastiao]

I've been having the same problem here, in some cases the video download even reaches 100% but gives an error at the end.

Log:

metube_app_proxy_1  | yarn run v1.22.19
metube_app_proxy_1  | $ node ./bin/www
metube_app_proxy_1  | [HPM] Proxy created: /  -> http://metube_metube_1:8081
metube_app_proxy_1  | Waiting for metube_metube_1:8081 to open...
metube_app_proxy_1  | MeTube is now ready...
metube_app_proxy_1  | Listening on port: 3700
metube_app_proxy_1  | [HPM] Upgrading to WebSocket
metube_metube_1     | Setting umask to 022
metube_metube_1     | Creating download directory (/downloads), state directory (/downloads/.metube), and temp dir (/downloads)
metube_metube_1     | Changing ownership of download and state directories to 1000:1000
metube_metube_1     | Running MeTube as user 1000:1000
metube_metube_1     | INFO:main:Listening on 0.0.0.0:8081
metube_metube_1     | DEBUG:asyncio:Using selector: EpollSelector
metube_metube_1     | INFO:ytdl:waiting for item to download
metube_metube_1     | INFO:aiohttp.access:10.21.0.14 [01/Feb/2025:17:42:08 +0000] "GET /socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=polling&t=hd6c14em HTTP/1.1" 200 309 "http://172.16.0.210:3700/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0"
metube_metube_1     | INFO:aiohttp.access:10.21.0.14 [01/Feb/2025:17:42:08 +0000] "GET /socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=polling&t=hd6de3e7&sid=14F-s7_cpwYM3OdPAAAA HTTP/1.1" 200 17155 "http://172.16.0.210:3700/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0"
metube_metube_1     | INFO:aiohttp.access:10.21.0.14 [01/Feb/2025:17:42:08 +0000] "POST /socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=polling&t=hd6dd5bb&sid=14F-s7_cpwYM3OdPAAAA HTTP/1.1" 200 297 "http://172.16.0.210:3700/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0"
metube_metube_1     | INFO:ytdl:adding https://youtu.be/CZSGIeRmYn8?si=qn96Ym6omsaC8rlm: quality='best' format='any' already=None folder=None custom_name_prefix='' playlist_strict_mode=False playlist_item_limit=0
metube_metube_1     | DEBUG:ytdl:Processing as a video
metube_metube_1     | INFO:ytdl:downloading O que IAs podem fazer? | Exemplos de Ferramentas
metube_metube_1     | ======== Running on http://0.0.0.0:8081 ========
metube_metube_1     | (Press CTRL+C to quit)
metube_metube_1     | INFO:aiohttp.access:10.21.0.14 [01/Feb/2025:17:42:18 +0000] "POST /add HTTP/1.1" 200 287 "http://172.16.0.210:3700/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0"
metube_metube_1     | 
[download] 100.0% of ~   712.00B at    1.24KiB/s ETA Unknown (frag 0/164)
[download]   0.3% of ~ 228.06KiB at    1.24KiB/s ETA Unknown (frag 1/164)
[download]   3.0% of ~  57.02KiB at    3.10KiB/s ETA Unknown (frag 1/164)
...
[download]  92.1% of ~ 190.91MiB at    2.78MiB/s ETA 00:06 (frag 150/164)
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
metube_metube_1     | INFO:ytdl:waiting for item to download

[PikuZheng]

I've been having the same problem here, in some cases the video download even reaches 100% but gives an error at the end.

try latest yt-dlp nightly build

[KyanoTrevisan]

I ran into the same issue and fixed it by adding the some parameters to YoutubeDL in ytdl.py:

yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(params={
                'quiet': False,
                'verbose': True,
                'no_color': True,
                'extract_flat': False,
                'no_warnings': False,
                'extractor_args': {
                    'youtube': {
                       'player_client': ['android'],            # Use Android player API
                       'player_skip': ['webpage', 'configs']    # Skip config requests
                    }
                },

player_client: ['android'] has different rate limits and fewer restrictions
player_skip: ['webpage', 'configs'] bypasses some API requests that were triggering the 400 error

I also added:
'extract_flat': False and 'no_warnings': False

[henriquesebastiao]

@unbreakify , I was continuously getting 403 error on every download attempt, but everything works fine after updating metube to the latest version 2025-01-27. Check if this one works for you.