KeyError Exception when retrieving Yahoo video

[jillh510]

KeyError exception when retrieving http://news.yahoo.com/video/crisis-nigeria-120000691.html:

python -m youtube_dl --dump-json --skip-download -v http://news.yahoo.com/video/crisis-nigeria-120000691.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--dump-json', '--skip-download', '-v', 'http://news.yahoo.com/video/crisis-nigeria-120000691.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.06.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
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 "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/main.py", line 18, in
youtube_dl.main()
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 850, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 840, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1039, in download
self.extract_info(url)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 163, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/yahoo.py", line 140, in _real_extract
return self._get_info(long_id, video_id)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/yahoo.py", line 116, in _get_info
'thumbnail': meta['thumbnail'],
KeyError: u'thumbnail'

[dstftw]

Thanks for the report, fixed and will be available in the next release of youtube-dl.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. This bug has been fixed in youtube-dl 2014.06.07. Type pip install -U youtube-dl to update.