add bbc archive

[treakiandroid]

hi,

could you add support for bbc archive? thanks

example page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml

$ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml
[generic] 5607: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 5607: Downloading webpage
[generic] 5607: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml
$ 

[TRox1972]

There is already an extractor for BBC, but it doesn't seem to support bbc.co.uk/archive/ urls. Shouldn't be to hard to change.

[insectatorious]

Would like to add my vote for this - just tried:

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/10700.shtml
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/10700.shtml']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-92-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.3-6, avprobe 11.3-6, ffmpeg N-80901-gfebc862, ffprobe N-80901-gfebc862
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] 10700.shtml: 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/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 972, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'playlist data'),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 650, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
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.

$ youtube-dl --version
2016.08.17

[James-UK]

Also gets my vote too, please; "regular" BBC iPlayer is fine, but BBC Archive pages still fail.

Regards

[kirbyj]

+1

me@home:~$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/summer-fashions-in-1959/zm8q47h
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/summer-fashions-in-1959/zm8q47h']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.7.1 (CPython) - Darwin-18.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4, ffprobe 4.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] zm8q47h: 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 1255, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'playlist data'),
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, 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; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.