ABC iView videos without an episode number or title don't download

[zayuim]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2016.10.07. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.10.07

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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:

$ youtube-dl --verbose http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/diaries-of-a-broken-mind/ZX9735A001S00
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/diaries-of-a-broken-mind/ZX9735A001S00']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.4, ffprobe 3.1.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[abc.net.au:iview] ZX9735A001S00: Downloading webpage
[abc.net.au:iview] ZX9735A001S00: Downloading f4m manifest
[abc.net.au:iview] ZX9735A001S00: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: unable to extract episodeNumber; 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.
WARNING: unable to extract episode_title; 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 "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 19, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 445, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 435, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1791, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 705, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 751, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1435, in process_video_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1500, in process_info
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information

Downloading an ABC iView video that doesn't have any episode number or title (e.g. a documentary such as http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/diaries-of-a-broken-mind/ZX9735A001S00) will result in an error in which the script failed to find an episode number or title

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. Support for such videos will be fixed in the next version.