[FunkChannel] ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata

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[debug] System config: []
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[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u' https://www.funk.net/channel/walulis-1031/luegenpresse-wie-es-soweit-kommen-konnte-walulyse-1200075']
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[FunkChannel] Downloading byChannelAlias JSON page 1: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[FunkChannel] walulis-1031: Downloading byIdList JSON
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[FunkChannel] walulis-1031: Downloading filter JSON
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  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 604, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Happens for most of the videos.

[SebiderSushi]

error still persists as of now

[SebiderSushi]

My guess it seems funk.net deprecated their own api and are directly using the Nexx Player now.

A possible workaround right now:
You can directly use the nexx extractor by calling youtube-dl nexx:741:$video_id
where 741 is the id for funk used over at nexx.cloud and video_id is the number behind the title inside the url for example
https://www.funk.net/channel/walulis-1031/luegenpresse-wie-es-soweit-kommen-konnte-walulyse-1200075
would have video_id = 1200075.

Could implement this into extractors/funk.py but honestly I have no clue how to do this cleanly so I'm just gonna post this here in hopes to help anyone who needs to use this until it is fixed.
And luckily most funk content is also available from YouTube anyway ^^