[YouPorn] Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

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I’m reporting a broken site
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Error happens using whatever YP link and download stops. With Youtube-dl a different error is reported: WARNING: unable to extract upload date; please report this issue... but the download starts successfully.

Verbose log

C:\temp\YT-DLP>yt-dlp -vU "https://www.youporn.com/watch/16516654/sego-lamico-di-mio-marito-al-ristorante-e-non-si-accorge-di-niente/"
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youporn.com/watch/16516654/sego-lamico-di-mio-marito-al-ristorante-e-non-si-accorge-di-niente/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9] (win_exe)
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.3, ffprobe 4.2.3
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.02.04, Current version: 2022.02.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.02.04)
[debug] [YouPorn] Extracting URL: https://www.youporn.com/watch/16516654/sego-lamico-di-mio-marito-al-ristorante-e-non-si-accorge-di-niente/
[YouPorn] sego-lamico-di-mio-marito-al-ristorante-e-non-si-accorge-di-niente: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: [YouPorn] 16516654: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the "Broken site" issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the "Broken site" issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 730, in _request_webpage
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3558, in urlopen
  File "urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
  File "urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
  File "urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
  File "urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
  File "urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default


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Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

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1reaction

marieellcommented, Feb 14, 2022

Downgrading to ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 works for me.

1reaction

dirkfcommented, Feb 10, 2022

This patch deals with the warning:

--- old/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youporn.py
+++ new/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youporn.py
@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@
             r'(?s)<div[^>]+class=["\']submitByLink["\'][^>]*>(.+?)</div>',
             webpage, 'uploader', fatal=False)
         upload_date = unified_strdate(self._html_search_regex(
-            [r'UPLOADED:\s*<span>([^<]+)',
+            (r'UPLOADED:\s*<span>([^<]+)',
              r'Date\s+[Aa]dded:\s*<span>([^<]+)',
-             r'(?s)<div[^>]+class=["\']videoInfo(?:Date|Time)["\'][^>]*>(.+?)</div>'],
+             r'(?s)<div[^>]+class=["\']videoInfo(?:Date|Time)["\'][^>]*>(.+?)</div>',
+             r'(?s)<label\b[^>]*>Uploaded[^<]*</label>\s*<span\b[^>]*>(.+?)</span>'),
             webpage, 'upload date', fatal=False))
 
         age_limit = self._rta_search(webpage)

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