Trying to download from olympics.com but get Server returned 403 Forbidden

[syrist]

Hi, I'm trying to download this free video from olympics.com:

https://olympics.com/en/video/beijing-2008-opening-ceremony

I tried several methods including youtube-dl with m3u8, youtube-dl with chrome cookies.txt, and ffmpeg with m3u8 but they always return Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)

For example... here's one I tried for ffmpeg

"C:\Hacks\Files\ffmpeg.exe" ^
    -headers "Referer: https://olympics.com/en/video/beijing-2008-opening-ceremony" ^
    -headers "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" ^
    -i "https://vod.olympicchannel.com/NBCR_Production_-_OCS/616/676/GCDG-BEIJINGS01E001-_E17052901_master.m3u8?hdnts=exp=1677694674~acl=/*~hmac=902d3745af1f9c9747bfc333348371a88cfc3d222a17fad162ae6708c7d8eca8" ^
    -c copy ^
    output.ts

And this is the message I got back:

ffmpeg version 4.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9.2.1 (GCC) 20200122
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
[https @ 06c66140] No trailing CRLF found in HTTP header. Adding it.
[https @ 06c66140] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
https://vod.olympicchannel.com/NBCR_Production_-_OCS/616/676/GCDG-BEIJINGS01E001-_E17052901_master.m3u8?hdnts=exp=1677694674~acl=/*~hmac=902d3745af1f9c9747bfc333348371a88cfc3d222a17fad162ae6708c7d8eca8: Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)

As soon as I get the m3u8 URL I immediately try to download before the link expires. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.

[larits]

Use yt-dlp with cookies and headers:

yt-dlp -N 6 --cookies-from-browser firefox --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0" --referer "https://olympics.com/" "https://vod.olympicchannel.com/NBCR_Production_-_OCS/616/676/GCDG-BEIJINGS01E001-_E17052901_master.m3u8?hdnts=exp=1677697946~acl=/*~hmac=a16ceab36e25c6dfd9f50b143e759ab348513c09ab8b478fc3c88185a445135e"

[generic] Extracting URL: https://vod.olympicchannel.com/NBCR_Production_-_OCS/616/676/GCDG-BEIJINGS01E001-_E17052901_maste...478fc3c88185a445135e
[generic] *~hmac=a16ceab36e25c6dfd9f50b143e759ab348513c09ab8b478fc3c88185a445135e: Downloading webpage
[generic] *~hmac=a16ceab36e25c6dfd9f50b143e759ab348513c09ab8b478fc3c88185a445135e: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] *~hmac=a16ceab36e25c6dfd9f50b143e759ab348513c09ab8b478fc3c88185a445135e: Downloading 1 format(s): 6294
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
WARNING: Live HLS streams are not supported by the native downloader. If this is a livestream, please add "--downloader ffmpeg --hls-use-mpegts" to your command
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 1550
[download] Destination: GCDG-BEIJINGS01E001-_E17052901_master [＊~hmac=a16ceab36e25c6dfd9f50b143e759ab348513c09ab8b478fc3c88185a445135e].mp4
WARNING: The download speed shown is only of one thread. This is a known issue and patches are welcome
[download]   0.4% of ~  11.26GiB at   13.27MiB/s ETA 47:07 (frag 6/1550)

[syrist]

Worked! Thank you so much