bbc.co.uk HTTP 404

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.06.25. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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• Other

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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 ```):

root@helix:~# youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08s334d"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08s334d']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.8
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.4, avprobe 11.4, ffmpeg 2.6.9, ffprobe 2.6.9, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] b08s334d: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] b08s334d: Downloading playlist JSON
[bbc.co.uk] b08s334d: Downloading legacy playlist XML
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2137, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

root@helix:~#

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08s334d

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Attempting to download generates the above traceback. For reference, this can be downloaded without issue using get_iplayer.

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