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[dkl3]

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youtube-dl http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18238488 --username USER --password USER -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18238488', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.02
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Linux-4.4.0-81-generic-i686-with-LinuxMint-18.1-serena
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[niconico] Logging in
[niconico] sm18238488: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 465, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 455, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1958, in download
url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py", line 399, in _real_extract
uploader_id = get_video_info(['ch_id', 'user_id']) or owner.get('id')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I try and download a video with NicoVideo, and it gives this error. I tried to check for a recent bug report on this but i didn't see anything. Does anyone know the cause? thank you.

[ghost]

also had this bug

the bug is this part always assuming a video has an owner (i think?)

i worked around it in my local copy by doing this:

owner = api_data.get('owner', {})
uploader_id = get_video_info(['ch_id', 'user_id']) or owner and owner.get('id')
uploader = get_video_info(['ch_name', 'user_nickname']) or owner and owner.get('nickname')

[dkl3]

Maybe that can be merged with this youtube-dl?