Kick once again returns 403 HTTP responses on their API with the current plugin version on master.
Solving the JS challenge and using the resulting cookies should work. This is now the third or fourth attempt of me implementing this, because the previous PRs all turned out to be unnecessary. I however could verify a few minutes ago before my IP address once again got whitelisted that accessing the API with the JS challenge cookies works. Whether it's unnecessary again because of some missing HTTP headers, like twice previously, I don't know. But since I got whitelisted again, I can't verify this, because even master works again from my end.
My patience with this plugin is about to run out though. Weird coincidence that the plugin breaks as soon as a fix has been published, several times now. Also, if I don't get any feedback on this, I'm tempted to simply remove the plugin and be done with it.
$ streamlink kick.com/admiralbulldog -l debug best
[cli][debug] OS: Linux-6.14.0-1-git-x86_64-with-glibc2.41
[cli][debug] Python: 3.13.2
[cli][debug] OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.5.0 8 Apr 2025
[cli][debug] Streamlink: 7.2.0+13.gf4e156c6
[cli][debug] Dependencies:
[cli][debug] certifi: 2024.12.14
[cli][debug] isodate: 0.7.2
[cli][debug] lxml: 5.3.0
[cli][debug] pycountry: 24.6.1
[cli][debug] pycryptodome: 3.21.0
[cli][debug] PySocks: 1.7.1
[cli][debug] requests: 2.32.3
[cli][debug] trio: 0.27.0
[cli][debug] trio-websocket: 0.11.1
[cli][debug] urllib3: 2.3.0
[cli][debug] websocket-client: 1.8.0
[cli][debug] Arguments:
[cli][debug] url=kick.com/admiralbulldog
[cli][debug] stream=['best']
[cli][debug] --loglevel=debug
[cli][debug] --player=/usr/bin/mpv
[cli][debug] --webbrowser-headless=True
[cli][info] Found matching plugin kick for URL kick.com/admiralbulldog
[plugins.kick][info] Solving JS challenge
[webbrowser.webbrowser][info] Launching web browser: /usr/bin/chromium (headless=True)
[webbrowser.webbrowser][debug] Waiting for web browser process to terminate
[plugins.kick][info] JS challenge solved, storing cookies
[plugins.kick][debug] Saved cookies: __cf_bm, XSRF-TOKEN, VsNsDegclIi9RLXdjf3AvMoRGvzmLZ952YK06lA8, cf_clearance, oWW5T2IepwOeNCOLNvP8DvgIGvYdvNOFabuk6U7Y, _ga, USER_LOCALE, _gcl_au, kick_session, OYK2C5XMwVCFWL2bsDVPcH1vEpTJLrCQbgmAkuPb, _ga_YS2DLSGQ53, WTgwHuSH4izmHCAE5acvNCF7WOFQAZBnPDZhSqBh, _cfuvid, KP_UIDz, _dd_s, volume, KP_UIDz-ssn
[utils.l10n][debug] Language code: en_US
[cli][info] Available streams: 160p (worst), 360p, 480p, 720p60, 1080p60 (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 1080p60 (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: /usr/bin/mpv
[stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist
[cli][debug] Pre-buffering 8192 bytes
[stream.hls][debug] First Sequence: 4050; Last Sequence: 4056
[stream.hls][debug] Start offset: 0; Duration: None; Start Sequence: 4054; End Sequence: None
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 4054 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 4055 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 4056 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 4054 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 4054 complete
[cli.output][debug] Opening subprocess: ['/usr/bin/mpv', '--force-media-title=kick.com/admiralbulldog', '-']
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 4055 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 4055 complete
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 4056 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 4056 complete
[cli][debug] Writing stream to output
[cli][info] Player closed
[stream.segmented][debug] Closing worker thread
[stream.segmented][debug] Closing writer thread
[cli][info] Stream ended
[cli][info] Closing currently open stream...