Some public NBC.com videos can't be downloaded

[2ShedsJackson]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.04.30
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ignore-config', '--verbose', 'https://www.nbc.com/busy-tonight/video/ben-feldman-duff-goldman/3940910']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.30
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-93562-g3e10223385, ffprobe N-93562-g3e10223385
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NBC] 3940910: Downloading JSON metadata
[ThePlatform] 3940910: Downloading SMIL data
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); 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.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpfeq7l785\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 626, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpfeq7l785\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2227, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

Description

youtube-dl doesn't download some NBC.com videos such as the ones at https://www.nbc.com/busy-tonight
Other NBC shows don't have a problem.

[dcxmurphy]

I'm having the exact same issue. Someone help please!

[harlanb]

I'm having the same problem. This time with the show Pearson (new): https://www.nbc.com/pearson/video/the-alderman/3985442

Yesterday, downloaded a different show without issue.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'-o', u'%(series)s - s%(season_number)02de%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s', u'https://www.nbc.com/pearson/video/the-alderman/3985442']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.07.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-54-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-94012-ge62f625163, ffprobe N-94012-ge62f625163
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NBC] 3985442: Downloading JSON metadata
[ThePlatform] 3985442: Downloading SMIL data
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); 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.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2227, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)