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PBS Frontline #4006
PBS Frontline #4006
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I've had issues with PBS in the past. The main issue is that there are 2 videos on the page. You can use a temporary workaround of running youtube-dl on the iframe of each video. Here's the ones from your page for convenience: |
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Will be fixed in the next version of youtube-dl. Thanks for the report. |
youtube-dl --verbose http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/']
[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ANSI_X3.4-1968, out ANSI_X3.4-1968, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.7 - Linux-3.12.13-gentoo+-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PBS] united-states-of-secrets: 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/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 524, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 193, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/pbs.py", line 131, in _real_extract
video_id, display_id, upload_date = self._extract_webpage(url)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/pbs.py", line 112, in _extract_webpage
webpage, 'player URL')
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 424, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
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.