abrock
commented
5 years ago Update: The bug is still present in the current version of youtube-dl:
youtube-dl --verbose https://www.etonline.com/media/videos/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-gets-a-musical-visit-from-rachel-bloom-exclusive
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.etonline.com/media/videos/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-gets-a-musical-visit-from-rachel-bloom-exclusive']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.12.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-3-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.3-1, ffprobe 4.0.3-1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-gets-a-musical-visit-from-rachel-bloom-exclusive: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-gets-a-musical-visit-from-rachel-bloom-exclusive: Downloading webpage
[generic] my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-gets-a-musical-visit-from-rachel-bloom-exclusive: Extracting information
[download] Downloading playlist: 'My Little Pony': Rachel Bloom Sings 'A Karin Tale'
[generic] playlist 'My Little Pony': Rachel Bloom Sings 'A Karin Tale': Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[brightcove:legacy] AQ~~,AAABIWNF7qE~,EJbsvFObVfJEm7rEo1Xk3nNXqnvaIG9q: Downloading playlist information
ERROR: Empty playlist; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py", line 309, in _real_extract
return self._get_playlist_info(player_key[0])
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py", line 378, in _get_playlist_info
raise ExtractorError('Empty playlist')
ExtractorError: Empty playlist; 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.
I found the original request to support the site #12236 which was closed via 922ab7840b01bd108887849063572cffa855cdc1. The extractor was removed in 171625469ab1b2a4dc99ed173a10be45e7fc13d6 since the site was covered by the general purpose extractor.
Video plays in Firefox 62.0.2.
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Download for the site seems broken, I clicked the video section and tried to download the first video, same problem:
I tried downloading a random youtube video to see if I completely broke my installation or similar but youtube is no problem: