youtube-dl http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/051080-000/deux-femmes-amoureuses

[luluprat]

can't download from arte tv 7 ?

[naglis]

The link works fine for me. Please include the full output of youtube-dl and that URL when run with -v.

[luluprat]

youtube-dl -v http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/051080-000/deux-femmes-amoureuses
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/051080-000/deux-femmes-amoureuses']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.0-29-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[arte.tv:+7] 051080-000: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract json vp 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/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 170, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/arte.py", line 77, in _real_extract
return self._extract_from_webpage(webpage, video_id, lang)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/arte.py", line 81, in _extract_from_webpage
r'arte_vp_url="(.*?)"', webpage, 'json vp url')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 401, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 391, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract json vp 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.

[phihag]

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