[cbsnews] multiple problems

[2011]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.08.22
• 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

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
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First, let's try an example URL from /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/cbsnews.py

$ youtube-dl -v 'http://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-positioned-to-be-a-game-changer/'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '-v', 'http://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-positioned-to-be-a-game-changer/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.22
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.6, ffprobe 3.3.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[cbsnews] artificial-intelligence-positioned-to-be-a-game-changer: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract playlist JSON info; 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 "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/cbsnews.py", line 91, in _real_extract
    'playlist JSON info', group='json'), video_id)['state']
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract playlist JSON info; 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.

Second example (not even recognized as cbsnews):

$ youtube-dl -v 'https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence/'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '-v', 'https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.22
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.6, ffprobe 3.3.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence: Downloading webpage
[generic] the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3280, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-wounds-of-war-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco-jennifer-lawrence/