Downloading videos with vine has stopped working

[igvasilyev]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.02.01. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v https://vine.co/v/Md997QBmznK
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://vine.co/v/Md997QBmznK']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.02.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8, ffprobe 2.8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Vine] Md997QBmznK: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract vine data; 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 369, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vine.py", line 94, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'vine data'),
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 672, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract vine data; 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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Downloading videos with vine has stopped working

[ThomasChr]

Confirmed by me.
The vine extraxtor fails to find the regex
r'window\.POST_DATA\s*=\s*({.+?});\s*</script>'
in the video page.

Reason: POST_DATA is missing completly. Seems that wine has changed something or this is a special kind of video.