[vk] Unable to extract vars (support for Dailymotion embeds)

[kotofond]

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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 --verbose https://vk.com/video-37468416_456239855
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://vk.com/video-37468416_456239855']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.11.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-2-betsy
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.9, ffprobe 2.6.9, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vk] -37468416_456239855: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract vars; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py", line 327, in _real_extract
    data_json = self._search_regex(r'var\s+vars\s*=\s*({.+?});', info_page, 'vars')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 650, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract vars; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.