Another brightcove.com KeyError: u'playerKey'

[nehrwert]

my youtube-dl version is 2014.08.23, the url comes from http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2014/08/miners-shot-down-2014812850358636.html

youtube-dl --verbose http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1&publisherID=665003303001&playerID=1638546175001&domain=embed&autoStart=true&videoId=3726411512001
[1] 23838
[2] 23839
[3] 23840
[4] 23841
[5] 23842
[6] 23843
[2] Done isUI=1
[3] Done publisherID=665003303001
$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-67-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 894, in main

File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 884, in _real_main

File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1061, in download
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 520, in extract_info
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 170, in extract
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py", line 192, in _real_extract
KeyError: u'playerKey'

[phihag]

Thank you for the report.

See the the strange [1] 23838 before youtube runs? That's the output from your shell, since ampersands are a shell character. To prevent your shell from interpreting the ampersands (and thereby depriving youtube-dl of the full URL), either escape them with a backslash or put the whole URL in quotes.

But that shouldn't be needed in the first place, just run youtube-dl on the original website:

youtube-dl http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2014/08/miners-shot-down-2014812850358636.html

will just work in youtube-dl 2014.08.24. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.

Note that aljazeera seems to have restricted access to the video; I can download it just fine from Germany, but it fails from the US. The new youtube-dl will now relay the error message as well :)

[nehrwert]

thank you for the explanation and for your work to make the link work!

[Fil]

I had no luck with this nor with http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-slum/2014/08/deliverance-201482883754237240.html (youtube-dl version 2014.12.01)