youtube-dl: 404 error with tweet video

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 ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

I’m trying to download metadata from tweets video and i’m getting 404 error. But yesterday was working very well

About this issue

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State: open
Created a year ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 17 (7 by maintainers)

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I can confirm this problem…

But it seems it affects downloading of videos from accounts with explicit content. No matter if the video is explicit by itself, or not on per account bases no videos can be downloaded. Using the youtube-dl -u command line option and password, do not make any difference. Videos from other accounts that are not explicit can be downloaded without a problem.

Not sure if the debug log helps but here it is. BTW I chose some not so explicit video (it is an animation) from an explicit account and since not sure how things with such links should be treated/reported here, I masked the link in the log and will post under it the actual user and status, so you can construct the URL:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/XXXXXX/status/XXXXXXXXXXX']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.10.10 (CPython) - Linux-6.2.9-1-default-x86_64-with-glibc2.37
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.3, avprobe 12.3, ffmpeg 4.4.3, ffprobe 4.4.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] XXXXXXXXXXX: Downloading guest token
[twitter] XXXXXXXXXXX: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 634, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 563, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 643, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

The user is MommyLinaaa and the video is in status: 1644617705968791552

PhobosK on Apr 8, 2023

Use option

--cookies-from-browser $BROWSER_NAME

should fix it

jasonm23 on May 8, 2023