XVideos: ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError())
See original GitHub issueChecklist
- I’m reporting a broken site support issue (do you mean with site a broken plugin?)
- I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
- 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 bug reports including closed ones
- I’ve read bugs section in FAQ
Verbose log
$ /opt/bin/youtube-dl --verbose https://www.xvideos.com/videoXXXXX/foo_bar_hey
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.xvideos.com/videoXXXXX/foo_bar_hey']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.18 (CPython) - Linux-5.10.0-8-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-11.0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4, ffprobe present, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[XVideos] 32272009: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (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 "/opt/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/opt/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
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Description
I have tried to download a (any!) video from XVideos and it always fails with the above error message. For privacy reasons the URL in the log is obscured (to much intimacy would be exposed) but you can take ANY video URL from there.
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This dev branch needs to be pulled.
They have changed some things in the
youtube_dl/extractor/xvideos.pyfile. They did not build new binaries since this fix. Clone the repo somewhere usinggit clone https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl(If this failed, please install git usingsudo apt install git. Then browse toyoutube_dlfolder and dopython __main__.py(ifpythoncommand does not work, please trypython3) and the the arguments. For you it’s--verbose https://www.xvideos.com/videoXXXXX/foo_bar_hey. Make sure to install python usingsudo apt install python3.