[bbc] Failed to parse JSON error

[surgeio]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--proxy', u'85.13.224.105:3128', u'--verbose', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071fyfr']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.02.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.4 - Linux-2.6.32-5-openvz-686-i686-with-debian-6.0.10
[debug] exe versions: avconv 0.8.6-6, avprobe 0.8.6-6, ffmpeg 0.8.6-6, ffprobe 0.8.6-6, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'85.13.224.105:3128', u'https': u'85.13.224.105:3128'}
[bbc.co.uk] b071fyfr: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] b071fyfr: Downloading playlist JSON
ERROR: b071fyfr: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('No JSON object could be decoded',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 509, in _parse_json
return json.loads(json_string)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 666, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 315, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 507, in _real_extract
programme_id, title, description, duration, formats, subtitles = self._download_playlist(group_id)
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 396, in _download_playlist
playlist_id, 'Downloading playlist JSON')
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in _download_json
json_string, video_id, transform_source=transform_source, fatal=fatal)
File "/home/steve/personal/python/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 513, in _parse_json
raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
ExtractorError: b071fyfr: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('No JSON object could be decoded',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[dstftw]

Your proxy transfers all requests to TellyPass.com.

[surgeio]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 01:56:44AM -0800, Sergey M. wrote:

Your proxy transfers all requests to TellyPass.com.

I'm not sure why that should stop the download from happening, but even
if it should, then perhaps a better error message would be helpful?
Something like "your proxy is doing bad things, change the proxy".

Steven

[dstftw]

There is no notion of a bad thing. You direct request to proxy, proxy returns you an HTML. It's impossible to guess whether it's bad or not.