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'Unable to extract podcast data' on nytimes.com #26305

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dhowe opened this issue Aug 12, 2020 · 1 comment
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'Unable to extract podcast data' on nytimes.com #26305

dhowe opened this issue Aug 12, 2020 · 1 comment

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@dhowe dhowe commented Aug 12, 2020

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  • I'm reporting a broken site support issue
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
  • 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 bug reports including closed ones
  • I've read bugs section in FAQ

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$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NYTimesArticle] ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract podcast 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 797, 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/nytimes.py", line 222, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'podcast data')
  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 podcast 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.

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Failed to download video https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government.html with ERROR: Unable to extract podcast data

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@dhowe dhowe commented Aug 12, 2020

Note that youtube-dl does work on the shareable link obtained by right-clicking the video and selecting 'get url': https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000006007030/china-ecuador-surveillance.html

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