[plus.google]Google plus has stopped working

[Hydrophobefireman]

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youtube-dl https://plus.google.com/+井上ヨシマサ/posts/ZButuJc6CtH -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://plus.google.com/+井上ヨシマサ/posts/ZButuJc6CtH', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.19
[debug] Git HEAD: d9e5737
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-22-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2-2, ffprobe 3.4.2-2, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[plus.google] ZButuJc6CtH: Downloading entry webpage
WARNING: unable to extract upload date; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract uploader; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
ERROR: Unable to extract video page URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/hprs/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/hprs/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 501, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/hprs/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/googleplus.py", line 44, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'video page URL')
  File "/home/hprs/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 971, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video page URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Skimming through /extractors/googleplus.py I found that it searches for an a tag

but the url matching the requirements is now found in an html attribute

<div class="e8zLFb" jscontroller="J3oyWd" jsmodel="bTCmc" jsdata="LfLzDd;https://plus.google.com/photos/108897254135232129896/albums/5753434884936553681/5753434882977881202;7>

also something like this worked for me

 re.search(r'https?://plus.google.com/photos/.*?\/albums/.*?(?=")',page_source)