[Python] ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden while using youtube_dl

I am trying to download songs from youtube using python 3.8 and youtube_dl 2020.3.24. But the weird thing is that most songs I try to download don't get downloaded. I'm talking 99% of them. The ones that do get downloaded get the following Error from youtube_dl:

ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

It is worth saying that this happened overnight and I did not change any code. before this everything worked fine. I have friends who ran the same code and they did not get this Error

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