Clive being blocked by youtube???

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 03:39:08 UTC 2012


On 11/06/2012 10:35 AM, Tim wrote:
> Trying one of the links that you originally mentioned gives me this
> response:
>
> $ clive -f best 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SEULZIHru0'
> Checking ...error: /usr/share/libquvi-scripts/lua/website/youtube.lua:112: This video contains content from UMG. It is not available in your country. (code=150)
>
> And I can't view the same in the webpage, either.
>
> Trying it on another video, that I can view normally, gives me a 403
> error message:  Checking ...error: server response code 403 (conncode=0)
>
> It looks like "clive," itself isn't the HTTP agent, and that it may be
> possible to monkey around with the go-betweens, that it uses, to do what
> I've been talking about (with referrers).  The configuration file found
> at /etc/clive/config looks promising.  But it's 4am, and I'll have
> another look at it tomorrow.
>
$ clive -f best 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SEULZIHru0'
Checking ...error: server response code 403 (conncode=0)

But it plays in firefox just fine!!!

So, you are getting a different error code than I am when using clive.

The clive config file does not seem to provide any means to get around this.


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