unable to download videos from Crunchyroll Premium

[ergosteur]

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--cookies', '/ocean/atlantic/users/matt/cookies-crunchyroll.txt', 'http://www.crunchyroll.com/my-hero-academia/episode-58-special-episode-save-the-world-with-love-775777']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.22
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.11
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.15, ffprobe 2.8.15
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Crunchyroll] 775777: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; 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/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/crunchyroll.py", line 544, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(formats, ('height', 'width', 'tbr', 'fps'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1281, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; 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.

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I am unable to download videos from crunchyroll.com as of 2018-08-26. This was working yesterday morning as my daily cron job was able to download the episode mentioned in the debug output above yesterday, 2018-06-25 around 7am EDT.

I have attempted creating a new cookies.txt file using the cookies.txt extension for Chrome but to no avail. I can provide this file privately if credentials are required for testing.

[ratchetfreak]

I believe this is caused by crunchy's new html5 player.

It removes the links to the resolutions used in crunchyroll.py line 460 and further.

The stream info is now instead in a line starting with vilos.config.media followed by a json containing a lot of what ends up in in youtube-dl's json output. No resolution info until you follow the url in the streams list.

I don't know how to force either the flash or the html5 player to appear. Other than that it is related to the VILOS_ROLLOUT cookie

attached is the file --write-pages dumped out. Line 421 is where the json with the stream info should be

crunchyroll html5 sample.txt

[RGFRv2]

A idea to solve that ?

[remitamine]

wait for the next release.