Periscope videos not downloading with latest version

[ditpara]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.11.06
• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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youtube-dl -f mp4 https://www.periscope.tv/aarondgood/1eaJbqBqyQBGX -J -v --dump-pages --print-traffic
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-f', u'mp4', u'https://www.periscope.tv/aarondgood/1eaJbqBqyQBGX', u'-J', u'-v', u'--dump-pages', u'--print-traffic']
[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-17.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.2, ffprobe 2.8.2, phantomjs 2.0.0, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
send: u'GET /api/v2/getBroadcastPublic?broadcast_id=1eaJbqBqyQBGX HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nConnection: close\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nHost: api.periscope.tv\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Cache-Control: max-age=0, s-max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, private
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: Content-Type: application/json
header: Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:45:29 GMT
header: Expires: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:45:29 GMT
header: Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:45:29 GMT
header: Pragma: no-cache
header: Set-Cookie: user_id=W-ln2TQ3OWY1OGNmLWNhYzctNGMwYy01ODgzLWExY2Y0YTBjOTY4NOrULwyFOo0j4oleXle1v-LPqNyILvfs2bu_UN-qqSCl; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:45:29 GMT
header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
header: Vary: Accept-Encoding
header: Content-Length: 1542
header: Connection: Close
send: u'GET /api/v2/getAccessPublic?broadcast_id=1eaJbqBqyQBGX HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nConnection: close\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nHost: api.periscope.tv\r\nCookie: user_id=W-ln2TQ3OWY1OGNmLWNhYzctNGMwYy01ODgzLWExY2Y0YTBjOTY4NOrULwyFOo0j4oleXle1v-LPqNyILvfs2bu_UN-qqSCl\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\n'
header: Cache-Control: max-age=0, s-max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, private
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: Content-Type: application/json
header: Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:45:30 GMT
header: Expires: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:45:30 GMT
header: Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:45:30 GMT
header: Pragma: no-cache
header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
header: Vary: Accept-Encoding
header: Content-Length: 60
header: Connection: Close
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: 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; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 506, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2195, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
<end of log>

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Specific video (as above) which plays fine in the browser, won't download through youtube-dl. There are emojis in the video name, perhaps this is the issue?

[dstftw]

Does not play in browser.

[ditpara]

It does on mine. And on a private window (not authenticated): https://www.periscope.tv/aarondgood/1eaJbqBqyQBGX

[dstftw]

Prove.

[ditpara]

Sorry, you're right, but it really did, until about 20-30 minutes ago.