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BBC iPlayer download not working #21053

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methodphoto opened this issue May 11, 2019 · 1 comment
Open

BBC iPlayer download not working #21053

methodphoto opened this issue May 11, 2019 · 1 comment

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@methodphoto
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@methodphoto methodphoto commented May 11, 2019

Checklist

  • I'm reporting a broken site support issue
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.05.11
  • 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 bug reports including closed ones
  • I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

youtube-dl --verbose -f mp4 "https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004vzb/storyville-brexit-behind-closed-doors-part-2"

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-f', u'mp4', u'https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004vzb/storyville-brexit-behind-closed-doors-part-2']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.05.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] m0004vzb: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] m0004vzb: Downloading playlist JSON
[bbc.co.uk] m0004vz9: Downloading media selection XML
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (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 626, 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 "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Attempting to download the above mentioned file on iPlayer and get the errors as described in the log

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@dirkf dirkf commented Oct 13, 2020

Test programme no longer available.

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