Unable to download videos from a certain length

[piiskop]

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Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Single file build
[debug] Python 3.12.3 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.8.0-49-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.39 - OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024 - glibc 2.39
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1.1, ffprobe 6.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

Description

If a video has a certain length up to a certain length then the download happens successfully. However starting from a certain length, I always get something like this:

peacecopkalmer@peacecop-kalmer-GL752VW:~$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/SPnDiWnNN5c

[youtube] SPnDiWnNN5c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] SPnDiWnNN5c: Downloading player 62ccfae7
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 1
[download] Destination: Ei minä ei huoli täst' kotkasta, mulle piisab kullista.-SPnDiWnNN5c.f134.mp4
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 3 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 4 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 5 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 6 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 7 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 8 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 9 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 10 of 10)...
ERROR: giving up after 10 fragment retries

[piiskop]

Actually, it does even not depend on the length, maybe size.

[dirkf]

It depends on not having used a work-around according to #32905.

[piiskop]

What work-around must be done then? They are writing about some mobile UA's. I am using on CLI.

[dirkf]

Follow the example posted, using the --user-agent ... command-line parameter to pass the fake mobile UA (rather than one of the fake UAs that would be sent by default).