version - 2016.10.21 - URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: {"urls">

[DcsPeterDickten]

Please follow the guide below

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.10.21
• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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the parameters are:
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--min-filesize', u'50k', u'--autonumber-size', u'3', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'--sleep-interval', u'181', u'-o', u'./angular-2-getting-started-update/%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/angular-2-getting-started-update']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.21
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.4, avprobe 11.4, ffmpeg 3.1.4, ffprobe 3.1.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}

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the full verbose output as follows:

Running the latest version of youtube-dl with plural sight gives me this error:

ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error unknown url type: {"urls">
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 353, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 61, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 454, in _open
'unknown_open', req)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1265, in unknown_open
raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)

URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: {"urls">

the url is
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/angular-2-getting-started-update

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[SliceTap]

yes can confirm, i get the same error unknown urls