Funimation: cannot parse json

[viruscmd]

[UPDATED Tuesday, November 7, 2017]

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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:

Command run pbpaste | youtube-dl -u username -p 'password' -a - --restrict-filename --verbose

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--restrict-filename', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'-a', u'-']
[debug] Batch file urls: [u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/home-the-one-and-only/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/stand-up-because-you-were-there/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/high-touch-for-you-who-gave-me-the-smile/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/end-of-summer-and-beyond/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/on-your-mark-the-beginning-of-destiny/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/believe-i-will-always-be-here/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/galaxy-now-the-stars-shine/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/run-when-the-mind-is-full/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/again-just-you-only-you/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/team-connect-emotions-become-the-wind/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/rival-a-promise-for-august/', u'https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/wall-chasing-still-so-far-away/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.11.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-17.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Funimation] Logging in as user@example.com
[Funimation] home-the-one-and-only: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [Funimation] home-the-one-and-only: Failed to parse JSON No JSON object could be decoded
ERROR: Unable to extract al:web:url; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 437, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/funimation.py", line 97, in _real_extract
    ], webpage, fatal=True)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 930, in _html_search_meta
    html, display_name, fatal=fatal, group='content', **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 809, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 800, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract al:web:url; 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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Sites list (content of pbpaste):

https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/home-the-one-and-only/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/stand-up-because-you-were-there/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/high-touch-for-you-who-gave-me-the-smile/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/end-of-summer-and-beyond/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/on-your-mark-the-beginning-of-destiny/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/believe-i-will-always-be-here/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/galaxy-now-the-stars-shine/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/run-when-the-mind-is-full/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/again-just-you-only-you/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/team-connect-emotions-become-the-wind/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/rival-a-promise-for-august/
https://funimation.com/shows/prince-of-stride-alternative/wall-chasing-still-so-far-away/

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[viruscmd]

Example stream url

• (1920x1080) https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1609152/English/1609152_English_7633c2d7-de61-e711-8175-020165574d09_Layer9.m3u8
• (1440x810) https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1609152/English/1609152_English_7633c2d7-de61-e711-8175-020165574d09_Layer8.m3u8
• (960x540) https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1609152/English/1609152_English_7633c2d7-de61-e711-8175-020165574d09_Layer5.m3u8
• (640x360) https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1609152/English/1609152_English_7633c2d7-de61-e711-8175-020165574d09_Layer4.m3u8
• (480x270) https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1609152/English/1609152_English_7633c2d7-de61-e711-8175-020165574d09_Layer2.m3u8
• (416x234) https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1609152/English/1609152_English_7633c2d7-de61-e711-8175-020165574d09_Layer1.m3u8

[eyemirror]

I have no idea how to code it but here is how to grab the stream and the subtitles

From episode page (https://www.funimation.com/shows/aokana-four-rhythm-across-the-blue/udon/)
Curl the page with headers (Browser agent, etc)
Find <meta property="og:video:url" content="
which gives you

Go to https://www.funimation.com/player/572567/
and find "screenshots": [
which gives you "screenshots": ["https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/exp/FunimationStoreFront/1777600/English/1777600_English_62eb807c-466f-e811-8175-020165574d09.mp4"],
and "screenshots": ["https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/exp/FunimationStoreFront/1777600/English/1777600_English_62eb807c-466f-e811-8175-020165574d09.m3u8"],
replace .m3u8 with _Layer1.m3u8 through _Layer10.m3u8 to get the different versions

Subtitles can be found under "textTracks":
"textTracks": [{"src": "https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1777600/English/1777600_English_61eb807c-466f-e811-8175-020165574d09.vtt", "kind": "subtitle", "type": "CC", "language": "en", "label": "English"}, {"src": "https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1777600/English/1777600_English_63eb807c-466f-e811-8175-020165574d09.dfxp", "kind": "subtitle", "type": "CC", "language": "en", "label": "English"}, {"src": "https://d132fumi6di1wa.cloudfront.net/FunimationStoreFront/1777600/English/1777600_English_64eb807c-466f-e811-8175-020165574d09.srt", "kind": "subtitle", "type": "CC", "language": "en", "label": "English"}]},

[eyemirror]

To get the ID's for each episode in the series you can curl the series page (view-source:https://www.funimation.com/shows/aokana-four-rhythm-across-the-blue/#videos)
and search for KANE_customdimensions.showID = ' which will give you the show ID.

This ID can then be used on the funimation api (https://prod-api-funimationnow.dadcdigital.com/api/funimation/episodes/?limit=99999&title_id=567789)
replacing the ID after &title_id= with the one for that series.

The ID for each episode can be found under "experience": this is then passed onto the player URL

[uzZyOGNX]

Issue is still present in youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1.