I built a discord bot using ytdl, it works fine but randomly, I get this error and I can't figure out the cause: (I truncated the link with ... because it was too long)
[https @ 000001ead63ee980] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
https://rr2---sn-uxaxpu5ap5-jp5l.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=...: Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)
I thought the problem was this portion of code:
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ytdlopts) as ydl:
ydl.cache.remove()
info = ydl.extract_info(search_query, download=False)
So I put it inside a try/catch, but it doesn't catch the error. I tried also:
ydl.cache.remove()
But the problem still there, in the odious event that the problem is not in my code but on the server side, is there a way to fix or mitigate the problem?
These are my ffmpeg/ytdl options:
ytdlopts = {
'format': 'bestaudio/best',
'outtmpl': 'downloads/%(extractor)s-%(id)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s',
'restrictfilenames': True,
'nocheckcertificate': True,
'ignoreerrors': False,
'logtostderr': False,
'quiet': True,
'extract_flat': True,
'skip_download': True,
'default_search': 'auto',
'source_address': '0.0.0.0' # ipv6 addresses cause issues sometimes
}
ffmpegopts = {'before_options': '-nostdin','options': '-vn'}
opts = {'extract_flat': True, 'skip_download': True}
ytdl = YoutubeDL(ytdlopts)
```
try doing ipv4: True and 'cachedir': False in ytdlopts, doing this, you force ipv4 and clear cache, I'm not sure it works but on me works fine.
ytdlopts = {
'format': 'bestaudio/best',
'outtmpl': 'downloads/%(extractor)s-%(id)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s',
'restrictfilenames': True,
'nocheckcertificate': True,
'ignoreerrors': False,
'logtostderr': False,
'quiet': True,
'extract_flat': True,
'skip_download': True,
'default_search': 'auto',
'source_address': '0.0.0.0' # ipv6 addresses cause issues sometimes
'force-ipv4': True,
'cachedir': False
}