Mixcloud: youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract title;

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D:\Cap>.\youtube-dl.exe --verbose "https://www.mixcloud.com/stephanbreuer32/deep-house-vocal-mix-01-2017/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.mixcloud.com/stephanbreuer32/deep-house-vocal-mix-01-2017/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-74593-g6638e4a, ffprobe N-74593-g6638e4a, rtmpdump 2.4.0-4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[mixcloud] stephanbreuer32-deep-house-vocal-mix-01-2017: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 359, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\mixcloud.py", line 96, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 671, in _html_search_regex
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 662, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract 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.
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I checked that Mixclloud is supported, and it appears to be. I get a Regex error when I point youtube-dl at that Mixcloud URL.

[hippyTed]

Here is a similar report, to confirm the problem.:

'''ted@kora$ ytdl https://www.mixcloud.com/iago-theobald/iago-and-jimbo-psydub-and-deep-trance-bad-people-in-the-woods-nye-2017/

• [[ 1 -gt 0 ]]
• youtube-dl --verbose --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 https://www.mixcloud.com/iago-theobald/iago-and-jimbo-psydub-and-deep-trance-bad-people-in-the-woods-nye-2017/
  [debug] System config: []
  [debug] User config: []
  [debug] Custom config: []
  [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--extract-audio', '--audio-quality', '0', 'https://www.mixcloud.com/iago-theobald/iago-and-jimbo-psydub-and-deep-trance-bad-people-in-the-woods-nye-2017/']
  [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
  [debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.10
  [debug] Python version 3.4.5 - Linux-4.4.26-gentoo-kora-033-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-i5-2540M_CPU@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.3
  [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.10, ffprobe 2.8.10, rtmpdump 2.4
  [debug] Proxy map: {}
  [mixcloud] iago-theobald-iago-and-jimbo-psydub-and-deep-trance-bad-people-in-the-woods-nye-2017: Downloading webpage
  ERROR: Unable to extract 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
  ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 359, in extract
  return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py", line 96, in _real_extract
  PREFIX + r'm-title="([^"]+)"', webpage, 'title')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 671, in _html_search_regex
  res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 662, in _search_regex
  raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
  youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract 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.
  '''

[benoon]

Same here.

[ata4]

There has been a design update recently, so the parser can't find some patterns in the changed HTML code anymore. It appears to work again when I remove PREFIX from the regex patterns in mixcloud.py, but I can't say if this will break something else.

[JackHack96]

I can confirm

[bhrgunatha]

They changed the CSS class name of the player to m-play-button.
Changing the PREFIX from m-play-on-spacebar to m-play-button works for me.

    PREFIX = (
        # r'm-play-on-spacebar[^>]+'
        r'm-play-button[^>]+'
        r'(?:\s+[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:="[^"]+")?)*?\s+')

[JackHack96]

@bhrgunatha It works for me too 👍