[bbc] Unable to extract playlist data - iplayer link #11095
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when I try to download the video in this page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/were-not-meant-to-be-happy-all-the-time/p05tl7t3 . yt-dlp reported an error, my version is 2024.08.06
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/were-not-meant-to-be-happy-all-the-time/p05tl7t3']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.08.06 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [4d9231208] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.6 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-13.7-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1.1-tessus (setts), ffprobe 6.1.1-tessus
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.08.30, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.46.1, urllib3-2.2.2, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1830 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: stable@2024.08.06 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2024.08.06 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[bbc] Extracting URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/were-not-meant-to-be-happy-all-the-time/p05tl7t3
[bbc] p05tl7t3: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [bbc] p05tl7t3: Unable to extract playlist data; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.8.6/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 740, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.8.6/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/bbc.py", line 1469, in _real_extract
self._search_regex(
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.8.6/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1333, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError(f'Unable to extract {_name}')