Failing to download https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews

[AaronNGray]

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• [ x] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2019.04.17

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• [x ] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• [ x] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• [ x] Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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 ```):

C:\Users\aaron\Videos>dl -vv https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-vv', 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.17
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-91407-g3c4af577aa, ffprobe N-91407-g3c4af577aa
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] bbcnews: Downloading webpage
ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor for URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/None
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 474, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2008, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 807, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 868, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 624, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1tqz5pcu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 586, in trouble
...
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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor for URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/None

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[AaronNGray]

Normal non-live BBC programmes download okay.