(Report) TMZ ERROR: Unable to extract embedded video info

[johnconnorskynet]

Hi,

Just here to report a bug while trying to download a video on tmz : here the full verbose :

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.tmz.com/2016/10/27/donald-trump-star-vandal-arrested-james-otis/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.tmz.com/2016/10/27/donald-trump-star-vandal-arrested-james-otis/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.06
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Linux-4.4.0-45-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[TMZArticle] donald-trump-star-vandal-arrested-james-otis: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract embedded video info; 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/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 682, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/tmz.py", line 49, in _real_extract
r'tmzVideoEmbedV2("([^)]+)");', webpage, 'embedded video info')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 659, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/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 embedded video info; 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.

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[debug] System config: []
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[yan12125]

Thanks for the report and sorry for the delay. TMZ articles will be correctly recognized in the next version.

[johnconnorskynet]

Thanx yan12125, Great work. keep it up.