Vidzi no loinger working, 'cannot parse json file'.

[norcaljohnny]

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youtube-dl --verbose https://vidzi.tv/grjtuxrkwir1.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://vidzi.tv/grjtuxrkwir1.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2, ffprobe 3.4.2, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Vidzi] grjtuxrkwir1: Downloading webpage
ERROR: grjtuxrkwir1: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Invalid control character at: line 1 column 317 (char 316)',)); 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/extractor/common.py", line 702, in _parse_json
    return json.loads(json_string)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Invalid control character at: line 1 column 317 (char 316)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vidzi.py", line 57, in _real_extract
    video_id, transform_source=js_to_json)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 706, in _parse_json
    raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
ExtractorError: grjtuxrkwir1: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Invalid control character at: line 1 column 317 (char 316)',)); 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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[norcaljohnny]

Closing this. It seems as of the update today, it is working again. 2000 thanks youtube-dl community!