watch_later feed: Failed to parse JSON

[effleurager]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [':ytwatchlater', '--playlist-start', '110', '--playlist-end', '110', '--add-metadata', '-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio', '-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-n', '-c', '-k', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.12.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.0-28-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11-6, avprobe 11-6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:watch_later] Downloading login page
[youtube:watch_later] Logging in
[youtube:watch_later] watch_later feed: Downloading page 1
ERROR: watch_later feed: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('Invalid \escape: line 1 column 98440 (char 98439)',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 402, in _parse_json
return json.loads(json_string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Invalid \escape: line 1 column 98440 (char 98439)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 592, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 243, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1560, in _real_extract
'Downloading page %s' % i)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 396, in _download_json
json_string, video_id, transform_source=transform_source, fatal=fatal)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 406, in _parse_json
raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
ExtractorError: watch_later feed: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('Invalid \escape: line 1 column 98440 (char 98439)',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[phihag]

Works fine for me. Can you post the files you get when you add the --write-pages option? If you do think the information therein is too sensitive, feel free to send it via private email to ytdl@yt-dl.org .

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.12.16.1 and newer. See our FAQ if you need help updating.

[effleurager]

Thanks so much for the hasty fix, it's solved the issue :) Silly case
matching :P

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:08 Philipp Hagemeister notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl
2014.12.16.1 and newer. See our FAQ https://yt-dl.org/update if you
need help updating.

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