vhx:embed not working

[heptathlon]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
• 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: [u'--verbose', u'https://embed.vhx.tv/videos/435821']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.3, avprobe 12.3, ffmpeg 4.2.1, ffprobe 4.2.1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vhx:embed] 435821: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract ott data; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 1124, in _real_extract
    'ott data'), video_id, js_to_json)['config_url']
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1005, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract ott data; 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.

Description

vhx:embed is not working:

# youtube-dl 'https://embed.vhx.tv/videos/435821'
[vhx:embed] 435821: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract ott data; 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.

Refs: #22817 and #22976

[ArtOfficialIntelligence]

Same error here utilizing my cookies.txt running youtube-dl 2020-01-01

1. Try updating: youtube-dl -U
2. Since this is coming from a subscription which requires authentication on the website, thus you would need to add arguments to the command you're using.

Try adding -u YOURUSERNAME -p YOURPASSWORD

or --cookies cookies.txt (after logging in to the website from Firefox, you can download the cookies.txt using this tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/)

More information for username authentication: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-options

Cookies: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#filesystem-options