youtube-dl: Crunchyroll Login page throwing 503

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Youtube-DL>youtube-dl -i "http://www.crunchyroll.com/fairy-musketeers/episode-1-akazukin-finally-comes-510412" -u MyUserName -p MyPassword --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-i', 'http://www.crunchyroll.com/fairy-musketeers/episode-1-akazukin-finally-comes-510412', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.31
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-62728-g6956b04, rtmpdump 2.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Crunchyroll] Downloading login page
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest versi
on; 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\rg3\tmpa0c7afb5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa0c7afb5\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, 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

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If you provide login credentials for Crunchyroll, then the script shows a HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable (caused by HTTPError()) error. But, if you remove the login credentials, it’ll download the video/playlist just fine. Above, I have provided a log with the login credentials. I can open the login page just fine on all the browsers and I’m not behind any firewall. I have tried this with 2 different systems, in different location and I had the same result.

I checked the login page and it was just cloudflare browser check. There was no captcha to solve or anything, as mentioned in this issue.

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  • Created 8 years ago
  • Reactions: 3
  • Comments: 110 (3 by maintainers)

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Find your useragent : http://www.esolutions.se/whatsmyinfo Grab/Export browser cookies via any plugin like ‘export cookies’ (mozilla)

Pass that file with the argument --cookies fileName.txt and then your user agent as --user-agent userAgent.

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Xonshiz on Jan 4, 2017

@Crank666 If you still haven’t got it working, remove the username/password parameters and it should work (it will auth with the cookie file)

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Ugrend on Jan 5, 2017

@federicorosso1993 ffmpeg is already installed on the Mac, I tried with a premium video that I couldn’t download on macOS with my premium account. Now, I tried with the same command and the same premium video (and the same premium account) on a Windows 7 VM, I am able to download 1080p, or choose 720p, and all. And you are right about the first video of an anime, it’s in 1080p for free, and I was able to download it too.

-Edit- Wait, I found why I was unable to download in HD and plus on macOS… I exported my cookies again, and I completely forgot that I have unlogged myself from crunchyroll in Firefox since my last try. So, I re-logged in, exported my cookies, and did python3 $(which youtube-dl) --cookies cookies.txt --user-agent “my user agent” --no-check-certificate [–other options] [link] And now, everything is working fine. Thanks!

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MacCamintosh on Feb 4, 2017

Ok finally I found a fix for OSX.

  1. you need to use --cookies cookies.txt --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0" (this is just an example)
  2. Add this --no-check-certificate
  3. you need to install python version 3 (the last version is 3.6) and use it with this: python3 $(which youtube-dl) instead of youtube-dl

you can now download with your account, not just on windows but also on mac. the main error was because of python 2.7 (and the only way I found to use python3 instead was to apply point 3).

there is still a warning: WARNING: hlsnative has detected features it does not support, extraction will be delegated to ffmpeg

So I guess you need to install ffmpeg to make it work. it was already installed in my system.

If you want you can still use youtube-dl without account login to download.

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federicorosso1993 on Feb 4, 2017

@Xonshiz

It should be back now, if not log out from Crunchyroll on your browser, delete all cookies and log in again, use the new cookies for youtube-dl. Don’t even try without cookies because you will get a 503 HTTP error.

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madrasile on Jan 10, 2017

@Crank666 Hi there, make sure you browse to crunchyroll after you install the plugin, after you do that the top entries should be crunchyroll cookies in either the .txt or the plugin.

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jakepbrown27 on Jan 4, 2017

“youtube-dl http://www.crunchyroll.com/monster-strike/episode-2-the-karmic-fist-of-wrath-734365 -f best --write-sub --sub-lang deDE --sub-format ass --cookies cookies.txt --download-archive archive.txt” works fine for me -> i use “cookies.txt” addon for chrome (Link)…

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Crank666 on Dec 28, 2017

note that now there is only one request that has the problem of cf anti-bot page, i think that the extraction of the needed metadata can be done using other methods(use of Mobile API).

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remitamine on Nov 12, 2017

@Xonshiz Good luck with your new Script

@Com3Carne Are you using the same IP address for creating your cookie and downloading using yt-dl ? If it’s not the same it’s gonna fail.

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madrasile on Jan 13, 2017

I don’t think you can download more than 480p without providing the login data to a Crunchyroll Premium acccount, and you never could. Use the -u and -p options to set your login details, as well as --user-agent to bypass the Cloudflare protection, if necessary.

[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.crunchyroll.com/blue-exorcist/episode-1-small-beginnings-728285', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.51 Safari/537.36', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '--write-sub', '--sub-lang', 'enUS', '-v'] [Crunchyroll] Downloading login page [Crunchyroll] 728285: Downloading webpage [Crunchyroll] 728285: Downloading media info for 360p [Crunchyroll] 728285: Downloading media info for 480p [Crunchyroll] 728285: Downloading media info for 720p [Crunchyroll] 728285: Downloading media info for 1080p ^c ERROR: Interrupted by user

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MartinWeingaertner on Jan 10, 2017

Hi,

You have to check these things :

  • You’re using the same user agent in yt-dl than the one you used to generate cookies
  • You’re using the same IP address than the compute where you generated cookies

Also what’s your error ?

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madrasile on Jan 5, 2017
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