[Bloomberg] ERROR: Unable to extract id

[maXity]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-11-07/steve-ballmer-bloomberg-studio-1-0-11-06']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.04
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10240
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Bloomberg] steve-ballmer-bloomberg-studio-1-0-11-06: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract id; 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpqdvyr8vw\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpqdvyr8vw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 357, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpqdvyr8vw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\bloomberg.py", line 52, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpqdvyr8vw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 660, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract id; 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

Downloading Bloomberg Studio videos results in aforementioned error. Tried rtmpdump 2.3, 2.4 and none at all, same result. I think this worked before, so I hope it can be fixed?

[yan12125]

Could you run this command and upload all *.dump files?

youtube-dl -v --write-pages http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-11-07/steve-ballmer-bloomberg-studio-1-0-11-06

[maXity]

Hi Yan, thanks for your reply.

To my surprise, running the same command again worked flawlessly today, although I made no other changes.

Maybe it was a server-side issue?

Thanks for your help though!