Soundcloud download results in 401 error

[bencardoen]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.22
• 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

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/irmiu/sync24-dance-of-the-droids --verbose                                                1 ✘ | miniconda3 Py | 15:13:39 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://soundcloud.com/irmiu/sync24-dance-of-the-droids', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.20.5-200.fc29.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-29-Twenty_Nine
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.4, ffprobe 4.0.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] irmiu/sync24-dance-of-the-droids: Downloading info JSON
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
[soundcloud] irmiu/sync24-dance-of-the-droids: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by <HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>); 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/home/bcardoen/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/home/bcardoen/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/home/bcardoen/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/home/bcardoen/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/home/bcardoen/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

Soundcloud extraction fails with latest version, see above test url.
I tested a randomly chosen url with same results.
Both play in firefox both logged in and in incognito.
Thanks for looking into this! (and amazing project btw)

[carlosmouracorreia]

2019-11-28 and 2019-12-25 versions result both on a 401 error still. Anyone experiencing this? @bencardoen

[bencardoen]

It's still not working for me either (2019.12.25), same error
@remitamine can you re-open this or point us to the duplicate issue this is from?