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verbose output as below:
[~/Videos/docos/adam curtis]$ yt --verbose http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/5a7b18b5-0ec3-3d3e-a307-54820a7c6a59
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/5a7b18b5-0ec3-3d3e-a307-54820a7c6a59']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.01.27
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.4.0-0-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] 5a7b18b5-0ec3-3d3e-a307-54820a7c6a59: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: BBC Blogs - Adam Curtis - HAPPIDROME - Part One
[bbc] playlist BBC Blogs - Adam Curtis - HAPPIDROME - Part One: Collected 7 video ids (downloading 7 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 7
[bbc.co.uk] p0295xqc: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] p0295xqg: Downloading media selection XML
[bbc.co.uk] p0295xqg: Downloading media selection XML
ERROR: Unable to extract title; 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/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 666, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 313, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 485, in _real_extract
r'<h2[^>]+id="parent-title"[^>]*>(.+?)', webpage, 'title')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 617, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 608, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract title; 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.
From what i can tell, it's possible to download the individual files from other pages, but not all at once from this page.
cheers,