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Looks like this is all blocked (403) from UK.

Possibly, but ATM I'll leave this to people able to access it directly. The question is whether OP's failure with cbs:... is repeatable given https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31864#issuecomment-1473757202. We now have ParamountPlus.com/gb but...

From the issue text: >looks like the issue is that these type URLs are now returning empty responses: > >http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/videoPlayerService.php?partner=cbs&contentId=wQH9yE_y_Dt4ekDYm3yelhhY2KXvOra_ So, yes.

Won't a trace of playing a test video in a desktop browser do?

For the final Colbert show of those three, I get these interesting JS fragments in the non-JS page seen by yt-dl, after pretty-printing: Colbert fragments ```py player.metaData = { 'airdate_iso':...

In the Colbert JSON quoted above: >` 'playerLocUrl': 'http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/chrome/canplayer.swf?allowScriptAccess=always&allowFullScreen=true&pid=Z8rFLBAAODE5&partner=cbs_us_free_desktop&autoPlayVid=false&owner=CBS Production Entertainment',` This just gives an opaque binary file with initial bytes `CWS`. Apparently it's a [compressed SWF](https://gist.github.com/jlhg/6377082) which can then...

Somehow the web and Android app manage to construct a playable URL, regardless of this (possibly requiring WV/FP). How does that happen? What do playable URLs look like?

Thanks: you answered the question anyway! Some other platforms have legacy implementations that can't be updated but have to continue playing content: perhaps these limited non-DRM options are provided for...

Read #30839 properly (**again**?)! @Artekkor, you're guessing. Why not help the inept OP by posting the actual issue for this problem?

The search results can be different each time you ask, so the concept of the "n-th" page of search results is not well defined. Maybe write your search results to...