Falled BBC iPlayer Download

[Private61]

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C:\Program Files (x86)\YouTube-dl>youtube-dl --verbose -f "[fps<=30]" https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09zgfvl/episodes-series-5-episode-3
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-f', '[fps<=30]', 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09zgfvl/episodes-series-5-episode-3']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.16
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.1, ffprobe 3.4.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] episodes-series-5-episode-3: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract playlist data; 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:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9r95p1_v\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9r95p1_v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 440, in extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9r95p1_v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\bbc.py", line 1037, in _real_extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9r95p1_v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 808, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract playlist data; 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.

Tried to download an episode from BBC iPlayer called Episodes
Used my usual cmmandline which has been working reliable but the above occurred

Any help/advice would be appreciated, Private61@Hotmail.com

[werid]

Click on the link "Programme website" then find the non-iplayer link under "Episodes" tab, e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zgfvl - this will work in youtube-dl.

[ilainftw]

You can also just remove "/episodes-series-5-episode-3" from the end of the URL. The BBC extractor doesn't properly handle "episodes" in this context.

[Private61]

Thanks, removing that extra part worked great.