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hey, I have a similar issue to that which is highlited at https://www.pythonanywhere.com/forums/topic/2688/

the only difference is that I am using flask, and the module I am using is pytube. I trust that you shall help, the error message displayed is:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app response = self.full_dispatch_request() File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request rv = self.handle_user_exception(e) File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb) File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request rv = self.dispatch_request() File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request return self.view_functionsrule.endpoint File "/home/<username>/<project>/app.py", line 49, in upload ytube = YouTube(url) File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytube/api.py", line 66, in init self.from_url(url) File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytube/api.py", line 158, in from_url video_data = self.get_video_data() File "/home/<username>/.virtualenvs/<project>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytube/api.py", line 254, in get_video_data response = urlopen(self.url) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1222, in https_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open raise URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden>

Youtube doesn't allow downloading videos through their API, so all of the scripts that download youtube videos scrape the www site, and we don't allow scraping from free accounts.