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ERROR: Unable to extract video id (teamcoco) #16374
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I can confirm this happens with the latest version. |
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Since the old and dead teamcoco plex addon finally stopped working I thought I'd use some php and youtube-dl as a replacement but I get the same error. I don't know the internals of this program but I see where it's failing. The site most likely changed and the 3 regexp's youtube-dl for teamcoco uses no longer matches anything. Looking at the teamcoco page source the ID it's looking for is in many places. At http://teamcoco.com/video/louis-ck-interview-george-w-bush it's looking for 19705. Here are 4 places where it has that ID. And there's a huge JSON string at the end of the page that contains the ID in several places if there's a json parser. |
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When I try to use the embed link it seems to work, but it downloads a video promo instead of the video that plays in the browser. It seems that the correct video url on http://teamcoco.com/embed/v/19705 is hidden inside a string that is base64 encoded and inside some json on the page. The preload function (javascript): |
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It's too soon to test it out myself but if the patch doesn't and should work for their embed link (for example http://teamcoco.com/embed/v/19705 ) I detailed how to get the video urls from the page above. If an additional video source page is something youtube-dl normally doesn't involve itself with then please make a note of it here or in the source somewhere. |
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Make sure you are using the latest version: run
youtube-dl --versionand ensure your version is 2018.05.01. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.Before submitting an issue make sure you have:
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it appears that something with the teamcoco extractor no longer is able to locate the video.