Unable to extract player params: VKontakte video download bug

[ap-Codkelden]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.05.07. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.05.07

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• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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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 ```):

> $ python youtube-dl --version
2017.05.07
> $ python youtube-dl --username <username> --password <password> --verbose "https://vk.com/video-33209565_456239032"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose', 'https://vk.com/video-33209565_456239032']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.07
[debug] Python version 3.6.1 - Linux-4.10.13-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3, ffprobe 3.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vk] Downloading login page
[vk] Logging in as mavladi@gmail.com
[vk] -33209565_456239032: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract player params; 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 "youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py", line 401, in _real_extract
    'player params'),
  File "youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 782, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract player params; 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.

[dstftw]

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[ap-Codkelden]

@dstftw reopen please.

I am a member of this group and I can download some other videos from it.