[Bloomberg] Broken site.

[adambuchbinder]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-09-01/tesla-what-big-oil-has-to-fear
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-09-01/tesla-what-big-oil-has-to-fear']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.11.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.2.0-42-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.18-6, avprobe 9.18-6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Bloomberg] tesla-what-big-oil-has-to-fear: Downloading webpage
ERROR: tesla-what-big-oil-has-to-fear: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 11 (char 12)',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/abuchbinder/Downloads/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 549, in _parse_json
    return json.loads(json_string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 11 (char 12)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/abuchbinder/Downloads/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/abuchbinder/Downloads/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/abuchbinder/Downloads/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bloomberg.py", line 52, in _real_extract
    r'BPlayer\(null,\s*({[^;]+})\);', webpage, 'id'), name)
  File "/home/abuchbinder/Downloads/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 553, in _parse_json
    raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
ExtractorError: tesla-what-big-oil-has-to-fear: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 11 (char 12)',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

It looks like the problem is that json.loads only accepts double-quotes, but the source from Bloomberg looks like this:

...
        BPlayer(null, {
          'id': '303188263',
          'idType': 'AVMM',
          'htmlChildId': 'player-303188263',
          'autoplay': true,
...

Adding a .replace("'", '"') to the string would probably work, but I don't know what the local style is here. I'll see if I can figure out how to propose a patch.

[adambuchbinder]

I should have put this all in the same pull request; see #10631.

[adambuchbinder]

Or maybe the pull request is separate from the issue tracker; they just use the same numbers. I am bad at github. Sorry about that; please close this if necessary.

[remitamine]

works fine now with the latest version.