Vimeo downloading crashes with: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

[amarshall]

Tried with multiple videos, both HTTP & HTTPS URLs. All fail.

% youtube-dl -v 'https://vimeo.com/57878898'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.01.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 57878898: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 57878898: Extracting information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 494, in main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 478, in _real_main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 503, in download
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 93, in extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 1033, in _real_extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 292, in get_element_by_attribute
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 240, in loads
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py", line 150, in goahead
    k = self.parse_endtag(i)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py", line 318, in parse_endtag
    tag = match.group(1)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
zsh: exit 1     youtube-dl -v 'https://vimeo.com/57878898'

[phihag]

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this issue on Python 2.7.3 on Linux. This looks like an internal Python error. We'll investigate, thanks for reporting!

[5shekel]

works for me without encasing url with ``
win7/64bit / python2.7

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this issue on Python 2.7.3 on Linux.
This looks like an internal Python error. We'll investigate, thanks for
reporting!

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[phihag]

@yoshco 2.7.3 or 2.7.2? If it fails on 2.7.2, but not 2.7.3, that may be the issue.

[5shekel]

im on 2.7.3, sorry for ommiting
i still think the problem is with encasing the url.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

@yoshco https://github.com/yoshco 2.7.3 or 2.7.2? If it fails on 2.7.2,
but not 2.7.3, that may be the issue.

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[phihag]

@yoshco No, encasing the URL is no problem and has no effect in any remotely POSIX-compatible shell, which zsh is. youtube-dl doesn't even get the quotes in the first place.

[lsousa]

I'm having the same issues with python 2.6.6 / Debian 6.0:

$ python ./youtube-dl 'http://vimeo.com/33186972'
[vimeo] 33186972: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 33186972: Extracting information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 494, in main
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 478, in _real_main
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 503, in download
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 92, in extract
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 1032, in _real_extract
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 292, in get_element_by_attribute
  File "/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 240, in loads
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 150, in goahead
    k = self.parse_endtag(i)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 318, in parse_endtag
    tag = match.group(1)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

$ python --version
Python 2.6.6

It works fine on another machine using Python 2.7.3/Ubuntu 12.10 though.

[phihag]

Thanks for reporting, fixed in youtube-dl 2013.02.01. Type

sudo youtube-dl -U

to update.

[lsousa]

Thanks for fixing it so quickly. It's working now 👍

[amarshall]

Awesomely quick fix, thanks!