youtube-dl: Crunchyroll (or CloudFlare ?) throwing a 503.

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2019.02.18. If it’s not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

PS E:\youtube-dl> E:\youtube-dl\youtube-dl.exe --cookies C:\ProgramData\Crunchy-DL\cookies.txt --write-sub --sub-lang frFR --sub-format ass https://www.crunchyroll.com/the-rising-of-the-shield-hero/episode-7-the-savior-of-the-heavenly-fowl-781154 --verbose --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.119 Safari/537.36"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--cookies', 'C:\\ProgramData\\Crunchy-DL\\cookies.txt', '--write-sub', '--sub-lang', 'frFR', '--sub-format', 'ass', 'https://www.crunchyroll.com/the-rising-of-the-shield-hero/episode-7-the-savior-of-the-heavenly-fowl-781154', '--verbose', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.119 Safari/537.36']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.02.18
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-2012Server-6.2.9200-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-86848-g03a9e6f, ffprobe N-86848-g03a9e6f
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[crunchyroll] 781154: Downloading webpage
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 version; 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\tmpw73a_6nx\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpw73a_6nx\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2225, 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

PS E:\youtube-dl>
...
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.crunchyroll.com/the-rising-of-the-shield-hero/episode-7-the-savior-of-the-heavenly-fowl-781154

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Try to download anything from crunchyroll is throwing a 503 error. And before someone ask me, YES my cookie file is correct and functioning properly, i checked if it was the issue multiple times.