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BBC iplayer no longer working? #4104
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Just tried this too and have the same problem. |
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This will probably be fixed in the next release of youtube-dl. I was unable to do proper testing as they ban proxies/tor nodes almost immediately, so testers from UK are very welcome. |
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Fixed in youtube-dl 2014.12.01. Refer to our FAQ if you have trouble updating. |
Everything I've tried says "Episode is no longer available" though I can watch it via browser.
Example:
[23:19:22] $ youtube-dl -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04lsm33/breakin-britain-the-crackdown-14-kevin-alison
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04lsm33/breakin-britain-the-crackdown-14-kevin-alison']
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ascii, out ANSI_X3.4-1968, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.04
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.4-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.4.2, ffprobe 2.4.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] b04lsm33: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] b04lsm33: Downloading playlist XML
ERROR: Episode b04lsm33 is no longer available
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/rob/config/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 536, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/rob/config/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 199, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/rob/config/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bbccouk.py", line 182, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Episode b04lsm33 is no longer available