Recently, we were getting the following error in youtube-dl :
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
We weren’t sure what that error meant (in the case of youtube-dl as the video is public) so we updated pip and youtube-dl to be sure that our problem was not that. The commands we used were the following:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip; pip install --upgrade youtube-dl;
After the updates, we still got the same error… After some google-fu we read that it could be a caching issue! We cleared the cache as follows:
youtube-dl --rm-cache-dir;
Guess what? After that, the problem was resolved and we were able to reuse youtube-dl.
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