Errors on pandora.tv

[Mickie1705]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.14
• 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: ['--verbose', 'http://www.pandora.tv/view/lulutama/51961246#37045930_new']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.14
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2019-11-09-0f89a22, ffprobe git-2019-11-09-0f89a22
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pandora.tv] 51961246: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: 51961246: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)',)); 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 899, in _parse_json
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 899, in _parse_json
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\pandoratv.py", line 87, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 892, in _download_json
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 876, in _download_json_handle
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp1sp1mtlp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 903, in _parse_json
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: 51961246: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)',)); 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

Can no longer download videos off Pandora TV. I used to be able to download both public and private videos from Pandora TV without issue a few months ago but now I have not been able to download off Pandora TV and has been giving the same error since. Even back when I could download videos, foreign characters and alphabets were not an issue as well.

[JordanWeatherby]

It seems this is breaking because
http://m.pandora.tv/?c=view&m=viewJsonApi
no longer returns data in json form which causes the extractor to fail.

The extractor needs this request to get vod_url and runtime so it can make a request to http://m.pandora.tv/?c=api&m=play_url and download the video

So unless there's an alternate way to get vod_url and runtime I think this will be broken for the forseeable future