[Funimation] betting-on-the-handshake-event: Failed to parse JSON No JSON object could be decoded

[Disinterpreter]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
• 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'https://www.funimation.com/shows/tsukiuta-the-animation/betting-on-the-handshake-event/?qid=d4ad92c7c2d924b', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale US-ASCII, fs utf-8, out US-ASCII, pref US-ASCII
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Funimation] betting-on-the-handshake-event: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [Funimation] betting-on-the-handshake-event: Failed to parse JSON No JSON object could be decoded
ERROR: Unable to extract al:web:url; 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 532, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/funimation.py", line 100, in _real_extract
    ], webpage, fatal=True)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1140, in _html_search_meta
    html, display_name, fatal=fatal, group='content', **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1019, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1010, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract al:web:url; 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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Description

There is a problem with downloading from Funimation.

[october262]

install the firefox addon called the stream detector
to get the m3u8 playlists. set it to youtub-dl command
click copy the url and paste into the terminal

[Disinterpreter]

install the firefox addon called the stream detector
to get the m3u8 playlists. set it to youtub-dl command
click copy the url and paste into the terminal

Oh... Sorry I found solving the problem.

I add a user-agent and cookies for it works.

youtube-dl --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36" --cookies funimation-cookies.txt 'animelink'

P.S I suggest to add a notify in parser about users have to add ua and cookies arguments. The message notify people for adding arguments and they won't to create duplicate issues.

[novasharper]

That does not seem to be working for me, which is odd since just using straight cURL with a cookiejar works for fetching the video metadata.