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add bbc archive #5385

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treakiandroid opened this issue Apr 9, 2015 · 3 comments
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add bbc archive #5385

treakiandroid opened this issue Apr 9, 2015 · 3 comments

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@treakiandroid
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@treakiandroid treakiandroid commented Apr 9, 2015

hi,

could you add support for bbc archive? thanks

example page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml

$ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml
[generic] 5607: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 5607: Downloading webpage
[generic] 5607: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml
$ 
@TRox1972
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@TRox1972 TRox1972 commented May 20, 2016

There is already an extractor for BBC, but it doesn't seem to support bbc.co.uk/archive/ urls. Shouldn't be to hard to change.

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@insectatorious insectatorious commented Aug 18, 2016

Would like to add my vote for this - just tried:

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/10700.shtml
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/10700.shtml']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-92-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.3-6, avprobe 11.3-6, ffmpeg N-80901-gfebc862, ffprobe N-80901-gfebc862
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] 10700.shtml: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract playlist data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how 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/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 972, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'playlist data'),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 650, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract playlist data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
$ youtube-dl --version
2016.08.17
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@James-UK James-UK commented Jan 5, 2019

Also gets my vote too, please; "regular" BBC iPlayer is fine, but BBC Archive pages still fail.

Regards

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