Embedded youtube-dl, DateRange for BBC iPlayer

[Qwerty-Space]

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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] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.10.05
[debug] Git HEAD: 7190216
[debug] Python version 3.7.0 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-17134-Microsoft-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] b0bp1brh: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] b0bp1brh: Downloading playlist JSON
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading media selection XML
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b0bpvw9q: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://bbcfmt-ic-6d96a700-109027-vodhlsuklive.s.loris.llnwd.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/c6ab17-b0bpvw9q/vf_b0bpvw9q_a39f5f40-a25f-4d7f-9fa3-fa81faaab809.ism/vf_b0bpvw9q_a39f5f40-a25f-4d7f-9fa3-fa81faaab809-audio_eng=320000-video=5070000.m3u8'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 382
[download] Destination: Doctor Who, Series 11, The Ghost Monument-b0bpvw9q.mp4
[download]   2.1% of ~1.80GiB at  2.17MiB/s ETA 00:59

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I'm trying to download a video that was uploaded on the day of running the command, however it seems to just download the video regardless of the date. I'm trying to download the latest Doctor Who episode from BBC iPlayer.

Code:

current_date = datetime.date.today().isoformat().replace("-", "")

ydl_opts = {
    "format": "best",
    "daterange": current_date,
    "verbose": "true"
}

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
        ydl.download([f"{latest_ep_link}"])

[dstftw]

1. daterange must be DateRange object.
2. BBCCoUk does not provide upload date info.

[Qwerty-Space]

It provides "first shown" date info.
I guess I could use BeautifulSoup to get that.