Unable to download video info JSON 1: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[isaaclw]

isaac@tesla:/media/swap/$ youtube-dl -e --verbose http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames/b/577357806
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-e', '--verbose', 'http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames/b/577357806']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to download video info JSON 1: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); 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.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 226, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1266, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 520, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 445, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 379, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 528, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[nDmitry]

Perhaps Twitch has shut the old API down:

• http://api.justin.tv/channel/archives/296128360.json
• http://api.justin.tv/broadcast/by_archive/296128360.json

[andrewguertin]

I did some network sniffing and found the url https://api.twitch.tv/api/videos/a570051803?as3=t . It seems to have all the video URLS necessary. The as3=t doesn't appear to be necessary/have any effect.

I also found https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API which appears to be official? I didn't investigate it too deeply.

Hope this helps someone to get twitch working again!

[dstftw]

twitch.tv extractor has been adjusted to work with new API. This will be available in the next release of youtube-dl. Thanks for the report.

[dstftw]

Fixed in youtube-dl 2014.10.18.