I have been getting this error for every youtube URL I pass to clive: $ clive -f best 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SEULZIHru0' Checking ...error: server response code 403 (conncode=0) $ clive -f best 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag' Checking ...error: server response code 403 (conncode=0) . . . .... etc.