ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor for URL with newest version

[gleb09]

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I successfully downloaded an audiobook episode from BBC by using:

youtube-dl https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001t93

However, I found I had done that using the 2018-11-23 version.
So I updated youtube-dl to the newest version with:

youtube-dl --update

and now trying to download the same thing again I get:

youtube-dl https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001t93
[bbc] m0001t93: Downloading webpage
ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor for URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/None

I can't seem to find any documentation on InfoExtractor or other users who have had this error.

[gleb09]

After having a look at the YoutubeDL.py code that error only appears in one place.
Line 826-827:

    else:
        self.report_error('no suitable InfoExtractor for URL %s' % url)

This only happens if the list of ies is empty but the bbc InfoExtractor didn't change from the 2018-11-23 veriosn so I don't know what's going on here.

[bhrgunatha]

I have the same issue with another BBC URL:

youtube-dl https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001xqk  

The BBC has most likely changed their site layout or delivery mechanism and the Info Extractor can't find the correct URL instead it gets https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/None

[gleb09]

But why would a previous version of ytdl work?

[JonasCz]

I get what seems to be the same issue on this link: https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/49780950

[jonas@Laptop Desktop]$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/49780950
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/49780950']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.10.22
[debug] Python version 3.7.4 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.196-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-arch-Manjaro-Linux
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.1, ffprobe 4.2.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] 49780950: Downloading webpage
ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor for URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/None
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2019.10.22', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 474, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2018, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 807, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 869, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in extract_info
    self.report_error('no suitable InfoExtractor for URL %s' % url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 624, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 586, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())