NHL / 'No JSON object could be decoded'

[RingoTheDog]

URL: http://video.coyotes.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=2014020444-X-h

youtube-dl.py -v "http://video.coyotes.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=2014020444-X-h"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://video.coyotes.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=2014020444-X-h']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.12.16.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-g31dfe20, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[nhl.com] 2014020444-: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: 2014020444-: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('No JSON object could be decoded',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; ty
pe 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 "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 402, in parse_json
return json.loads(json_string)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json__init_.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 365, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 592, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 243, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\nhl.py", line 102, in _real_extract
json_url, video_id, transform_source=self._fix_json)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 396, in _download_json
json_string, video_id, transform_source=transform_source, fatal=fatal)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 406, in _parse_json
raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
ExtractorError: 2014020444-: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('No JSON object could be decoded',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest ve
rsion; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

(I am pretty sure this is a different issue from the NHL / rtmpdump issue I posted yesterday...but sorry if it is the same)

Ringo

[phihag]

Fixed in youtube-dl 2014.12.17. Update as usual ;)

[RingoTheDog]

AMAZING... as usual

Thanks...