[Medialaan] Episode extractor broken

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', 'best', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://vtm.be/video/volledige-afleveringen/id/257695181487000']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.26
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4, ffprobe 3.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Medialaan] 257695181487000: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpyarvtrja\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 472, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpyarvtrja\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 462, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpyarvtrja\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpyarvtrja\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpyarvtrja\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 500, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpyarvtrja\build\youtube_dl\extractor\medialaan.py", line 169, in _real_extract
IndexError: list index out of range

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Similar to issue #16489 which was temporarily fixed in #16491.
Same issue with Youtube-dl version built with fix #16491.
Fix stopped working after 25/05/2018 (new GDPR law active)

[mmartain]

Same issue here, medialaan is broken

[CodingPeak]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-o', u'%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'https://vtm.be/video/volledige-afleveringen/id/258016142873000', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-23-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, ffprobe 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Medialaan] 258016142873000: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 472, in main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 462, in _real_main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in download
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/medialaan.py", line 169, in _real_extract
IndexError: list index out of range

[DylanVanAssche]

It seems that the extractor is still broken for vtm.be/vtmgo

[dylan@desktop ~]$ youtube-dl https://vtm.be/vtmgo/afspelen/edc5d31c6-4b90-4623-9810-06762d79b48c
[Medialaan] edc5d31c6-4b90-4623-9810-06762d79b48c: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2019.9.12.1', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 474, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2010, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/medialaan.py", line 169, in _real_extract
    url, webpage, video_id, m3u8_id='hls')[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

[henkson]

Still broken for vtm.be/vtmgo in version 2020.03.24.