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Cloudflare: Error 522 – Connection timed out 2

 in Other  tagged 522 / cloudflare / error / timed out by

Recently, we’ve been noticing weird behavior on sites that are proxied behind Cloudflare servers. While visiting a site from one internet connection, we are constantly getting a 522 error. If at that moment, we switch our internet connection on that machine and visit the same page, it works as expected.

We are sure that the servers we have access to did not run out of resources, nor does the firewall block Cloudflare IPs. All firewalls are properly configured to accept connections from the official Cloudflare IPs that were retrieved from here.

We will investigate it further, hopefully we will figure it out.

youtube-dl ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

 in GNU/Linux  tagged error / pip / youtube-dl by

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.