BBC iPlayer Radio

[klop422]

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

c:\Users\PDEM\Documents>youtube-dl --verbose https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0b9z4yl
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0b9z4yl']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.07.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-87257-g8e17cd2, ffprobe N-87257-g8e17cd2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] b0b9z4yl: 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; 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 502, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\bbc.py", line 1073, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
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; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.```

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This is an example of a page I can't get to download despite having been able to download from iPlayer Radio a number of moths ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0b9z4yl
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Although BBC iPlayer Radio previously worked (and regular iPlayer also works currently), it appears the BBC have changed the format for iPlayer Radio, and so, as far as I can work out, you can't currently download files from iPlayer Radio.

[Vangelis66]

The BBC are planning changes to iPlayer Radio API and have piloted them in their BBC Radio 3 offerings; the old URIs of the format https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/<pid> now redirect in a browser to a new template: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/<pid> which involves a redesigned embedded web player for radio (accessible freely overseas, but requires log-in within the UK).

yt-dl can't yet parse the new format, so if you feed it that, you get the error you reported; but the old format is still interchangeable as far as yt-dl is concerned, so to fetch your Proms programme just use

youtube-dl "https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9z4yl" (+ other optional arguments of yours...)

you can't currently download files from iPlayer Radio.

... False generalisation; currently only Radio 3 affected (with workaround available); unless you think of iPlayer Radio as R3 only... Tsk...

[klop422]

Ah! Apologies, I honestly only really use Radio 3 (sometimes Radio 4) and it never occurred to me that they would change the system for only one part of the site. Probably why I'm not a software tester!Well, thank you for your help. That said, are yt-dl intending to try and add support for this, as it will likely become relevant in the future?

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 3:30, Vangelis66notifications@github.com wrote:
The BBC are planning changes to iPlayer Radio API and have piloted them in their BBC Radio 3 offerings; the old URIs of the format https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ now redirect in a browser to a new template: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/ which involves a redesigned embedded web player for radio (accessible freely overseas, but requires log-in within the UK).

yt-dl can't yet parse the new format, so if you feed it that, you get the error you reported; but the old format is still interchangeable as far as yt-dl is concerned, so to fetch your Proms programme just use

youtube-dl "https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9z4yl" (+ other optional arguments of yours...)

you can't currently download files from iPlayer Radio.

... False generalisation; currently only Radio 3 affected (with workaround available); unless you think of iPlayer Radio as R3 only... Tsk...

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