PBS Broken

[helpdeskdan]

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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 ```):

youtube-dl -v http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.12+ - Linux-4.8.0-45-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.10-yakkety
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.10.1, ffprobe 3.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.10.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Using fake IP 3.34.115.130 (US) as X-Forwarded-For.
[pbs] Downloading JSON metadata
[pbs] command-and-control: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 465, in main
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 455, in _real_main
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1896, in download
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 429, in extract
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pbs.py", line 445, in _real_extract
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pbs.py", line 427, in _extract_webpage
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 141, in match
    return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)
TypeError: expected string or buffer

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

PBS extractor appears to be broken. Will try to look at source code for due dilligence, but I'm not a python guru. Thanks for your time.

[helpdeskdan]

There no partnerplayer to grep on in the iframe. I do see cloudfront though, "https://d2ok2u3bz752mp.cloudfront.net/js/gc.js"