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$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/35908187
[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/35908187']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.03.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Linux-4.4.6-300.fc23.i686-i686-with-fedora-23-Twenty_Three
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] 35908187: 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/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 668, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 319, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 876, in _real_extract
webpage, 'playlist data'),
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 614, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.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.