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Motherless.com regex fails - Unable to extract video URL #16786

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bugfinder5000 opened this issue Jun 21, 2018 · 0 comments
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Motherless.com regex fails - Unable to extract video URL #16786

bugfinder5000 opened this issue Jun 21, 2018 · 0 comments

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@bugfinder5000 bugfinder5000 commented Jun 21, 2018

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is

  • I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.06.19

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

  • At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
  • Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
  • Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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Motherless.com regex no longer finds video URL

It seems Motherless.com changed something on their site, which breaks the current regular expression for finding the video URL. It would need to be updated.

I've tested it with somewhere between 10-50 regular video URLs. None seem to work in Youtube-dl, but work fine on the website in the browser.

NOTICE Video in below log should be SFW (couldn't check audio), but it's a porn site, so... you know... keep that in mind if you download the video.

#>youtube-dl --verbose http://motherless.com/95915FB
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://motherless.com/95915FB']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.19
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.16299
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2, ffprobe 3.2, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Motherless] 95915FB: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video URL; 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\tmp3niajf93\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp3niajf93\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 501, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp3niajf93\build\youtube_dl\extractor\motherless.py", line 81, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp3niajf93\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 980, in _html_search_regex
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp3niajf93\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 971, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video URL; 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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