youtube-dl: [VrtNU] Authentication failed

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
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 issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/de-zevende-dag/2021/de-zevende-dag-d20210627/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[VrtNU] Logging in
[VrtNU] Requesting a token
WARNING: [VrtNU] Authentication failed
[VrtNU] Waiting for 1 seconds before trying again
[VrtNU] Requesting a token
WARNING: [VrtNU] Authentication failed
[VrtNU] Waiting for 1 seconds before trying again
[VrtNU] Requesting a token
WARNING: [VrtNU] Authentication failed
[VrtNU] Waiting for 1 seconds before trying again
[VrtNU] de-zevende-dag-d20210627: Downloading webpage
[Canvas] pbs-pub-0a163591-000e-4f09-bf70-8c0e3347045a$vid-2daf5010-a534-49b9-940b-cbe40cb96384: Downloading token
[Canvas] pbs-pub-0a163591-000e-4f09-bf70-8c0e3347045a$vid-2daf5010-a534-49b9-940b-cbe40cb96384: Downloading video JSON
ERROR: This video is only available for registered users. Use --username and --password or --netrc to provide account credentials.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 534, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\canvas.py", line 77, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 943, in raise_login_required
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: This video is only available for registered users. Use --username and --password or --netrc to provide account credentials.

Description

Altough I’m using correct credentials, youtube-dl is unable to download content, because of the Authentication failed warning. The correct cookie is not set. I’ve noticed also that https://token.vrt.be is no longer accessible.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 16

Most upvoted comments

For people ending up in this issue you can always download with a little more effort (even no authentication needed):

Load the video page and open dev tools
Go to the network tab and refresh
filter by “pbs” and select the only filtered request
in targetUrls find the type: "hls_aes" and use that uri to simply youtube-dl <uri> in the cli

BelgianNoise on Aug 24, 2021

This is fixed in yt-dlp

brechtm on Nov 11, 2021

Hi @sharethewisdom , I tried to download the example you mentioned and it works for me:

$ git clone https://github.com/pgaig/youtube-dl.git
$ cd youtube-dl
$ git checkout test-vrtnu-logon
$ python3 -m youtube_dl https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/de-zevende-dag/2021/de-zevende-dag-d20210627/ --netrc
[VrtNU] Login data
[VrtNU] Requesting XSRF Token
[VrtNU] Requesting a token
...

Note that you get old VrtNU loglines, so my guess is that you’re using an older version of youtube-dl. Maybe export PYTHONPATH=. and execute from the checkedout path?

pgaig on Jul 22, 2021