When trying to download video off ARD: "Unable to extract title"

[jorenverspeurt]

I recently tried to download a video off ardmediathek.de, which should be supported, but it gives this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 163, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/ard.py", line 41, in _real_extract
    r'<h1(?:\s+class="boxTopHeadline")?>(.*?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 389, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 379, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract title;

I used the following URL: (I tried different variations)
http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Dokumentation-und-Reportage/Weniger-essen-laenger-leben/rbb-Fernsehen/Video?documentId=21414506

[jaimeMF]

I think you are using an outdated version (It seems to be the same error as #3006). It seems you are using pip, so you need to run sudo pip install -U youtube_dl to upgrade.

If you still have the problem with the last version, please post the full output of youtube-dl --verbose http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Dokumentation-und-Reportage/Weniger-essen-laenger-leben/rbb-Fernsehen/Video?documentId=21414506 and I will reopen the issue.

[jorenverspeurt]

Thank you for your time, I looked at the other report and it was exactly what I had (I wonder why I didn't find that issue, I searched for ARD but didn't see it...), updating to the latest version fixed it for me, apparently the package repository for my Linux distro was behind about 3 weeks or so so I didn't get the latest version through there until today. It works now, I've successfully downloaded the video.