yt-dlp: `--ap-mso Comcast_SSO` broken

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support issue
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.07.07
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
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] Command-line config: ['--ap-mso', 'Comcast_SSO', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', '--all-subs', '--convert-subs', 'srt', '--verbose', 'https://abc.com/shows/when-nature-calls/episode-guide/season-01/03-dastardly-death-gunk-stuff']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.07.07 (exe)
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2021-07-14-git-ca56299fb3-full_build-www.gyan.dev, ffprobe 2021-07-14-git-ca56299fb3-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [Go] Extracting URL: https://abc.com/shows/when-nature-calls/episode-guide/season-01/03-dastardly-death-gunk-stuff
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by <HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 680, in _request_webpage
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3086, in urlopen
  File "urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
  File "urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
  File "urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
  File "urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
  File "urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default

Description

Cannot get --ap-mso Comcast_SSO to work, no matter what I do. I have a legit login/password. I am off-network. I can watch the videos online using MS-Edge and Adobe Pass seems to work perfectly there. I have tried using --ap-mso, I have tried using the cookies file, a combination of both, but nothing seems to work. Please assist.

About this issue

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State: open
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 18 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I posted this in #7841 but perhaps the people here can test it as well as some of the more recent errors here seem to be the same. You’ll need to of installed yt-dlp through python & pip or equivalent so you can edit the files. You can find the a likely directory yt_dlp is installed to by running python -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages())" Then you can do the following to the yt_dlp/extractor/adobepass.py file:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/099fb1b35cf835303306549f5113d1802d79c9c7/yt_dlp/extractor/adobepass.py#L1473=

change line 1473 of adobepass.py from elif 'automatically signed in with' in provider_redirect_page: to elif ('automatically signed in with' in provider_redirect_page) or ('initInterstitialRedirect' in provider_redirect_page):

CeruleanSky on Sep 1, 2023