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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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 ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'http://www.daisuki.net/us/en/anime/watch.TalesofZestiriatheX.16453.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-16.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2017-02-28-7f62368, ffprobe git-2017-02-28-7f62368, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract flashvars; 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 761, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 427, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/daisuki.py", line 58, in _real_extract
    r'(?s)var\s+flashvars\s*=\s*({.+?});', webpage, 'flashvars'),
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 759, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract flashvars; 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.
<end of log>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

When attempting to download a premium Daisuki video (in order to work around Flash), I receive the above error.

I also attempted to work around by using --add-header to add cookies and that results in the following:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--add-header', u'Cookie: PRIVATE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-16.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2017-02-28-7f62368, ffprobe git-2017-02-28-7f62368, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading webpage
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #2)
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #3)
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #4)
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #5)
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
ERROR: Failed to fetch init 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 761, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 427, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/daisuki.py", line 93, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Failed to fetch init data')
ExtractorError: Failed to fetch init 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.

I added in some debug code to see what was actually being returned in those JSON responses and I'm getting:

Failed a thing: {u'rcd': u'31', u'err_msg': u'Must By'}
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #2)
Failed a thing: {u'rcd': u'30', u'err_msg': u'error1', u'err': u'error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line'}
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #3)
Failed a thing: {u'rcd': u'31', u'err_msg': u'Must By'}
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #4)
Failed a thing: {u'rcd': u'31', u'err_msg': u'error2'}
[Daisuki] 16453: Waiting for 5 seconds
[Daisuki] 16453: Downloading JSON metadata (try #5)
Failed a thing: {u'rcd': u'31', u'err_msg': u'Must By'}