RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract data player config - Twitter

[vaibhav1312]

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -j --verbose https://twitter.com/captainamerica/status/719944021058060289
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-j', u'--verbose', u'https://twitter.com/captainamerica/status/719944021058060289']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to extract data player config; 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 "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 671, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 341, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py", line 102, in _real_extract
    r'data-(?:player-)?config="([^"]+)"', webpage, 'data player config'),
  File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 653, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 644, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract data player config; 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.


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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Issue occurs with the some twitter videos, most of them works fine.

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. Such videos will be supported in the next version.