Soundcloud HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

[Ashoat]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.12.25
• 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

ashoat@ashoatmbp2018 [~/Downloads]$ youtube-dl --verbose -x --audio-format=mp3 --audio-quality=320K https://soundcloud.com/rlgrime/halloween-viii
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-x', u'--audio-format=mp3', u'--audio-quality=320K', u'https://soundcloud.com/rlgrime/halloween-viii']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.12.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-18.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.4, ffprobe 4.1.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] rlgrime/halloween-viii: Downloading info JSON
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
[soundcloud] rlgrime/halloween-viii: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (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 "/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 "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

This issue has been reported multiple times over the last month or so (#23516, #23253, #23261, #23251, #23244, #23239, #23236). It appears that the issue has been fixed in d1b2722, but a version with the fix has yet to be released. I am using the latest 2019-12-25 version - would love any advice as to how to update to a version that includes the fix.

[Ashoat]

For anybody else blocked on the new release, turns out it's pretty easy to just run youtube-dl from source. Clone this repo and then run make. Feel free to ignore any errors about pandoc etc. as long as the youtube-dl binary is created.

[markw443]

Hey Ashoat. Does this apply to Youtube-DLG as well? Having this issue but do not understand what you are saying in your response.