hotstar.com doesn't work anymore

[josefk1100]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.hotstar.com/in/movies/dil-bechara/1260036017/watch']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-42-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-19.3-tricia
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.8, ffprobe 3.4.8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[hotstar] 1260036017: Downloading webpage
[hotstar] 1260036017: Downloading JSON metadata
[hotstar] 1260036017: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://hses4.akamaized.net/videos/hotstarint/forceup/1260025161/1586341016779/fcc2ab35a8cfbd1315af85b0085f1689/media-8/index.m3u8'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 8
[download] Destination: Dil Bechara-1260036017.mp4
[download] 100% of 1.02MiB in 00:03
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Dil Bechara-1260036017.mp4'
[ffmpeg] Fixing malformed AAC bitstream in "Dil Bechara-1260036017.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel 'repeat+info' -i 'file:Dil Bechara-1260036017.mp4' -c copy -f mp4 '-bsf:a' aac_adtstoasc 'file:Dil Bechara-1260036017.temp.mp4'

Description

hotstar.com doesn't work anymore. It downloads a 29 second MP4 file which shows the following error message.

[rikuddo91]

Same, I've tried proxy as well as global VPN and it still download the same 'no longer supported' video.

[sumit-1988]

same here

[navintech93]

same here

[navintech93]

any update

[philipl]

philipl@31f5e45

[viranch]

Still does not work in 2020.11.24

[remitamine]

a working Indian VPN or proxy is needed to work on this issue.

[viranch]

I have a paid and non-geo-restricted US account, youtube-dl does not work with my hotstar account cookies in US either.

[viranch]

Hotstar's API has changed. #25443 partly fixes it, but it doesn't work for me. I keep getting 403 Forbidden even with that patch. As I said above, I have a paid non-geo-restricted US account and I'm happy to test stuff.

[philipl]

I have an update to use the new API in my fork: philipl@3a574c5

[roobann]

I have an update to use the new API in my fork: philipl@3a574c5

This works for me, but need to manually change the country code to in

[philipl]

I improved the code in the PR. It does country code extraction from the url.