NHK World Unable to find episode error

[sulaiman-allen]

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/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --verbose https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/15minutes/3019007/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/15minutes/3019007/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-43-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4, ffprobe 3.4.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NhkVod] 15minutes/3019007: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to find episode; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  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/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py", line 32, in _real_extract
    e for e in data['data']['episodes']
StopIteration
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py", line 35, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unable to find episode')
ExtractorError: Unable to find episode; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Hello,
From what I can tell, the full https://www3.nhk.or.jp/ site is no longer working for grabbing urls with youtube-dl. It has been running just fine until today when I notice that it started throwing unable to find episode errors for any urls I tried to feed it. Thank you all for your work.

[sulaiman-allen]

This appears to have mysteriously fixed itself. Thanks anyway.