Sony Crackle Encrypted Now?

[SaurusX]

In the recent past I was able to download from Crackle using youtube-dl. Not so anymore. It tries and goes through its list of geo identifiers, but ends up with an HTTPS error of some kind. Additionally, I have two separate plugins in Chrome to download videos and while they DO download the result is encrypted. Any help?

In particular, I'm trying to grab the Men In Black Animated Series episodes from the site. Thanks.

[Sviests]

Link to embeded video please.

[SaurusX]

Link to embeded video please.

Sorry about that. Here it is:

https://www.sonycrackle.com/watch/3235

[Sviests]

If you're getting the 401 error,it means you're not in US and need to use a VPN. Even tho their content is encrypted, youtube-dl does kinda work,but it's a different error.
You need to remove the "sony" part from "sonycrackle.com/watch/..."

Input code:

C:\ytb-dl\youtube-dl "http://www.crackle.com/watch/3235"
[Crackle] 3235: Downloading config
[Crackle] 3235: Downloading XML
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpgsc1affm\bu
ild\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 471, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpgsc1affm\bu
ild\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 461, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpgsc1affm\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1988, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpgsc1affm\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpgsc1affm\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 438, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpgsc1affm\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\crackle.py", line 91, in _real_extract
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'attrib'

C:\ytb>

So it's an youtube-dl issue,someone has reported this on the github,hopefully gets fixed soon.

[LZAA]

Content is encrypted.

[slimozis]

xd

[SaurusX]

So it's an youtube-dl issue,someone has reported this on the github,hopefully gets fixed soon.

I saw on github someone recommending to use an older version of youtube-dl. They claimed it still worked, but I get the same results as you just demonstrated. I think LZAA is correct, the site is encrypted now.

[slimozis]

xD

[SaurusX]

xD

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