diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/moniker.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/moniker.py
index 5de719bdc4..801abe0e18 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/moniker.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/moniker.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     compat_urllib_parse,
     compat_urllib_request,
 )
+from ..utils import ExtractorError
 
 
 class MonikerIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -40,6 +41,12 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         video_id = self._match_id(url)
         orig_webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
+        error = self._search_regex(
+            r'class="err">([^<]+)<', orig_webpage, 'error', default=None)
+        if error:
+            raise ExtractorError(
+                '%s returned error: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, error), expected=True)
+
         fields = re.findall(r'type="hidden" name="(.+?)"\s* value="?(.+?)">', orig_webpage)
         data = dict(fields)