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Hi, here's the verbose output of youtube-dl
C:\WINDOWS\system32>youtube-dl --verbose https://vk.com/video-491_171204657
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://vk.com/video-491_171204657']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.02.05.1
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-10-10.0.10586-SP0
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vk] -491_171204657: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract vars; 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 "c:\program files (x86)\python35-32\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 666, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "c:\program files (x86)\python35-32\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 313, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "c:\program files (x86)\python35-32\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\vk.py", line 283, in real_extract
data_json = self.search_regex(r'var\s+vars\s=\s({.+?});', info_page, 'vars')
File "c:\program files (x86)\python35-32\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 608, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract vars; 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.