youtube-dl crashed with KeyError in _real_extract(): 'player_swf_url'

[dholbach]

The new version of youtube-dl seems to be able to download from mixcloud:
+ Added support for Mixcloud.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work as intended.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4521, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4512, in main
_real_main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4496, in _real_main
retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 849, in download
ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 1107, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 3722, in _real_extract
player_url = json_data['player_swf_url']
KeyError: 'player_swf_url'

More information available on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/918126

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: youtube-dl 2012.01.05-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-9.16-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 2f383a1679e8525d7196eb2518a1921f
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Wed Jan 18 12:05:59 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/youtube-dl
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110817)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/youtube-dl -t http://www.mixcloud.com/dholbach/cryptkeeper/
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/youtube-dl', '-t', 'http://www.mixcloud.com/dholbach/cryptkeeper/']
SourcePackage: youtube-dl
Title: youtube-dl crashed with KeyError in _real_extract(): 'player_swf_url'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[phihag]

Mixcloud seems to have completely revamped their API; we basically need a new extractor. See http://www.mixcloud.com/developers/documentation/ for documentation. I'll look into it, but that may take some time (~April). You are of course free to provide patches.

[ghost]

Any news of a fix for this? I get this output for mixcloud

WARNING: the program functionality for this site has been marked as broken, and will probably not work. If you want to go on, use the -i option.
[mixcloud] Downloading json
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 17, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 494, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 478, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 503, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 92, in extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 2930, in _real_extract
KeyError: 'player_swf_url'

[jaimeMF]

@grexe yes, please add an new issue, they are different sites, the issues are not related.

[grexe]

ok moved, thanks for the very quick reaction, cheers!

[jaimeMF]

Should be fixed now.