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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-on-trump-impeachment-inquiry-ukraine-president-phone-call-and-the-whistleblower-in-60-minutes-interview/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.09.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-11-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.11
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.9, ffprobe 3.3.9
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[cbsnews] nancy-pelosi-on-trump-impeachment-inquiry-ukraine-president-phone-call-and-the-whistleblower-in-60-minutes-interview: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video JSON info; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how 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/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/cbsnews.py", line 107, in _real_extract
webpage, 'video JSON info'), display_id)['items'][0]
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1014, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1005, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video JSON info; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Description
Some videos cannot be downloaded from the cbsnews.com website. Youtube-dl returns error "Unable to extract video JSON info".
This is an example of the video:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-on-trump-impeachment-inquiry-ukraine-president-phone-call-and-the-whistleblower-in-60-minutes-interview/