Unable to download from escapist magazine

[ddevault]

sircmpwn@homura ~> youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9664-Sacred-3-Hack-and-Slash-Review"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9664-Sacred-3-Hack-and-Slash-Review']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.1 - Linux-3.16.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Escapist] 9664: Extracting information
[Escapist] 9664: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
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 170, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/escapist.py", line 39, in _real_extract
    playerUrl = self._og_search_video_url(webpage, name=u'player URL')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 468, in _og_search_video_url
    return self._html_search_regex(regexes, html, name, **kargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 401, 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 391, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

[Tailszefox]

From what I can tell, this is because _og_search_video_url looks for the meta property "og:video", at line 466:
regexes = self._og_regexes('video')

However, no such property exists on the video webpage (anymore? It worked well not too long ago). Instead, there is an og:video:url property:
<meta property="og:video:url" content="http://cdn2.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.12.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fvideos%2Fconfig%2F9664-1cb8c909bb45433ca1254499400cc81f.js%3Fembed%3D1%26fb%3D1">

Changing line 466 to the following fixes the issue:
regexes = self._og_regexes('video:url')

 % ./__main__.py http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9664-Sacred-3-Hack-and-Slash-Review
[Escapist] 9664: Extracting information
[Escapist] 9664: Downloading webpage
[Escapist] 9664: Downloading normal configuration
[Escapist] 9664: Downloading hq configuration
[download] Destination: Sacred 3 - Nothing Is Sacred-9664.mp4
[download] 100% of 7.37MiB in 00:04

I am pretty sure this is going to break websites which are using the "og:video" property instead of "og:video:url" so there's certainly a better way to fix this that wouldn't end up breaking everything else.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. This bug has been fixed in youtube-dl 2015.08.21.2. It looks like you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager such as pip or pacman. Use that package manager to update.

[ddevault]

Thanks for the speedy fix 😄