KeyError: u'playerKey' at livescience.com

[jayseye]

Here's the command line and output. Thanks for keeping youtube-dl updated!

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.livescience.com/43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.livescience.com/43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.08.2
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Linux-2.6.37.6-smp-i686-Intel-R-Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_____T5450_@_1.66GHz-with-slackware-13.37.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to http://m.livescience.com/43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video.html
[generic] 43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video: Downloading webpage
[generic] 43117-man-gets-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel-video: Extracting information
[generic] Brightcove video detected.
[download] Downloading playlist: Man Gets Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel | Video | LiveScience
[generic] playlist Man Gets Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel | Video | LiveScience: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video #1 of 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 800, in main
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 790, in _real_main
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 982, in download
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 546, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 620, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 546, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 158, in extract
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py", line 171, in _real_extract
KeyError: u'playerKey'

[jaimeMF]

Fixed, thanks for the report!

[jayseye]

Confirmed the patch, thanks very much for the quick fix! Excellent video, by the way -- a bionic replacement hand, which restores feeling as well as motion.