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MSNBC Error on Downloading JSON metadata #12576
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Bl1z
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Mar 27, 2017
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I'm having the same issue when trying to download a video from NBC.com using youtube-dl 2017.06.18. I tested downloading a YouTube video and it worked, but NBC.com always produces this error:
EDIT: in case this helps solve the issue, I figured out how to manually download a video from NBC.com. I viewed the HTML source of the page in Chrome and looked for this tag, which can be found in the
After decoding it, I extracted this URL from the
Adding
After decoding this twice, I got the URL of the video from the
When accessing the URL, it turned into this temporary URL:
The video then started playing in the browser, and I was able to download it by clicking the Download Video icon in Chrome's media control bar. |
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Encountering the same error with MSNBC videos (also ThePlatform)
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Also getting this error |
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Also getting this error for videos from nbcnews on most recent youtube-dl (2018-10-05 as of this writing). Traceback (most recent call last): During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): |