Closed maobowen closed 6 years ago
Hi @yan12125, I don't think this is a geo issue. I'm in US and I can watch that anime series without any problems using Chrome. I've tested on another Windows machine and the error is the same. If you have a look at what _download_webpage
returns, it should show that the program is detected as a bot provided that you use a US IP.
FYI: The label is for developers. It means a proxy or VPN is necessary for debugging.
It looks like robot detection is exactly the issue. When poking around I dig out the following:
Request unsuccessful. Incapsula incident ID:
It also looks like there are some people addressing parts of this issue in #13515.
Will Youtube-dl have to display a CAPTCHA for Funimation now?
Duplicate of #14569.
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This might be a duplicate of #14569; however, there's no update. Not sure if Funimation's using Incapsula's robot detection that causes the issue (cuz I was writing a program and was unable to get HTML content because of being identified as a robot).