[MLB] ERROR: Unable to extract video id

[RingoTheDog]

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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.py -v "https://www.mlb.com/video/hargrove-homers-off-caldwell/c-1352023483?tid=67793694"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.mlb.com/video/hargrove-homers-off-caldwell/c-1352023483?tid=67793694']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71727-g46778ab, ffprobe 3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[MLB] c-1352023483?tid=67793694: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video id; 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 "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\mlb.py", line 132, in _real_extract
    [r'data-video-?id="(\d+)"', r'content_id=(\d+)'], webpage, 'video id')
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 782, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video id; 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.

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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: https://www.mlb.com/video/hargrove-homers-off-caldwell/c-1352023483?tid=67793694

Thanks
Ringo

[RingoTheDog]

another example: https://www.mlb.com/brewers/video/counsell-on-blowout-loss/c-1657079983

[remitamine]

requires a simple change in _VALID_URL to extract the video_id from the url.