[cammodels] ExtractorError: Unable to find manifest URL root

[karoshi]

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.10.16
• 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

LATEST VERSION (broken):

# ./youtube-dl -vg https://www.cammodels.com/cam/agnesss
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-vg', u'https://www.cammodels.com/cam/agnesss']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.10.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Linux-5.3.6-050306-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-19.04-disco
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to find manifest URL root; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/cammodels.py", line 43, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(error, expected=expected)
ExtractorError: Unable to find manifest URL root; 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.

LAST KNOWN WORKING:

# ./youtube-dl-lastok -vg https://www.cammodels.com/cam/agnesss
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-vg', u'https://www.cammodels.com/cam/agnesss']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.06.27
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Linux-5.3.6-050306-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-19.04-disco
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
rtmp://sea1c-edge-33.naiadsystems.com:1936/live/01ead87f-66cc-465c-9cca-5f91e2505708_2000_1280x720_56

Description

• You need to use a model that is online: change the name in the URL accordingly
• One could make it work again by reverting the changes in utils.py ("random_user_agent"):

utils.py, line 1669:
   > 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0',
   < 'User-Agent': random_user_agent(),
 

• not sure if OS updates or web site changes made a difference because it has been working with a version of youtube-dl 2019.06.27 < ok < 2019.09.28 in September where utils.py was already the newer version
• no difference in using python2 or python3

Thanks for your work.