iplayer - Downloading legacy playlist XML 404 error on AD links

[raymondbutler]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• [x ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.05.20
• [x ] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [x ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• [x ] I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

youtube-dl -v --print-traffic --cookies=new.cookies -F https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b9djjx/ad/junk-rescue-series-1-11-plastic-bottles
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--print-traffic', u'--cookies=new.cookies', u'-F', u'https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b9djjx/ad/junk-rescue-series-1-11-plastic-bottles']
[debug] Encodings: locale ISO-8859-1, fs ISO-8859-1, out ISO-8859-1, pref ISO-8859-1
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.05.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.6.1810-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.5, ffprobe 3.4.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] b0b9djjx: Downloading video page
send: u'GET /iplayer/episode/b0b9djjx/ad/junk-rescue-series-1-11-plastic-bottles HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nConnection: close\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nHost: www.bbc.co.uk\r\nCookie: ckpf_mvt=b30c08a2-b1f1-4e67-a3c6-a25c34b076ed\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: request-id: 33f5f8594c1a1b14472fda1eba8b5950
header: vary: x-cdn,x-bbc-edge-scheme
header: cache-control: no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0
header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
header: content-encoding: gzip
header: Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:41:07 GMT
header: server-timing: total;dur=41.717, miss
header: link: <https://emp.bbci.co.uk/emp/bump-4/bump-4.js>; rel=preload; as=script; nopush, <https://iplayer-web.files.bbci.co.uk>; rel=preconnect, <https://mybbc.files.bbci.co.uk>; rel=preconnect, <https://nav.files.bbci.co.uk>; rel=preconnect, <https://ichef.bbci.co.uk>; rel=preconnect, <https://iplayer-web.files.bbci.co.uk/iplayer-web-components/67.5.2/iplayer.css>; rel=preload; as=style; nopush, <https://iplayer-web.files.bbci.co.uk/react/16.8.1/react.js>; rel=preload; as=script; nopush, <https://iplayer-web.files.bbci.co.uk/iplayer-web-components/67.5.2/fonts/tviplayericons.woff?-bpwhxc>; rel=preload; as=font; crossorigin; type="font/woff2"; nopush
header: x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
header: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
header: x-content-type-options: nosniff
header: Connection: close
header: x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
header: x-webapp: iplayer-web-app-playback-v2
[bbc.co.uk] b0b9djjx: Downloading playlist JSON
send: u'GET /programmes/b0b9djjx/playlist.json HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.bbc.co.uk\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nConnection: close\r\nCookie: ckpf_mvt=b30c08a2-b1f1-4e67-a3c6-a25c34b076ed\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently\r\n'
header: Server: openresty
header: X-BBC-No-Scheme-Rewrite: 1
header: X-Cache-Action: MISS
header: Vary: X-BBC-Edge-Scheme
header: Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600
header: X-Cache-Age: 0
header: Content-Type: text/html
header: Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:40:56 GMT
header: Location: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9djjx/playlist.json
header: Content-Length: 178
header: Connection: close
send: u'GET /programmes/b0b9djjx/playlist.json HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nConnection: close\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nHost: www.bbc.co.uk\r\nCookie: ckpf_mvt=b30c08a2-b1f1-4e67-a3c6-a25c34b076ed\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Server: openresty
header: X-Cache-Action: MISS
header: Vary: Accept-Encoding, X-CDN,X-BBC-Edge-Scheme
header: Cache-Control: max-age=120, public
header: X-Cache-Age: 0
header: Content-Type: application/json
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:40:56 GMT
header: Content-Language: en-GB
header: X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
header: Content-Length: 220
header: Connection: close
[bbc.co.uk] b0b9djjx: Downloading legacy playlist XML
send: u'GET /iplayer/playlist/b0b9djjx HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.bbc.co.uk\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nConnection: close\r\nCookie: ckpf_mvt=b30c08a2-b1f1-4e67-a3c6-a25c34b076ed\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\n'
header: Content-Type: text/html
header: Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:41:08 GMT
header: Connection: close
header: Content-Length: 50193
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 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 "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

I'm unable to download AD (This is an Audio Described version of this programme.) links
Is this a bug or a feature that can be added ?

[raymondbutler]

Thank you for the comment, I will close this issue.