PBS: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('title'))

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Region

United States

Description

I attempted to download episodes of “Broken Bread”, however they all return an error.

Verbose log

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.pbs.org/video/the-future-of-restaurants-rbs0v8/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.01.21 [f20d607b0]
[debug] Python version 3.10.2 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.01.21, Current version: 2022.01.21
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.01.21)
[debug] Using fake IP 6.233.58.236 (US) as X-Forwarded-For
[pbs] Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] [pbs] Extracting URL: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-future-of-restaurants-rbs0v8/
[pbs] the-future-of-restaurants-rbs0v8: Downloading webpage
[pbs] the-future-of-restaurants-rbs0v8: Downloading widget/partnerplayer page
[pbs] the-future-of-restaurants-rbs0v8: Downloading portalplayer page
ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('title')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 612, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\pbs.py", line 693, in _real_extract
    'title': info['title'],
KeyError: 'title'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 612, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\pbs.py", line 693, in _real_extract
    'title': info['title'],
KeyError: 'title'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1367, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1437, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\jesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 642, in extract
    raise ExtractorError('An extractor error has occurred.', cause=e, video_id=self.get_temp_id(url))
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('title')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[sydlexius]

Try --no-geo-bypass.

This appears to work in the UK (also for yt-dl). Otherwise a portalplayer page is returned with a ‘not available in your area’ message, and no ‘videoBridge’ JS, and extraction fails, since the empty object has no title member. yt-dl error is ‘No video formats found’, but otherwise similar.

The PBS extractor’s URL pattern has a final / that seems unnecessary, but doesn’t affect this issue.

It works with that command-line paramater, FYI.

[jlkauffman92]

Also in US and also getting this problem. --no-geo-bypass also fails:

yt-dlp https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/life-and-death-in-the-war-zone/ -vU --no-geo-bypass [debug] Command-line config: [‘https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/life-and-death-in-the-war-zone/’, ‘-vU’, ‘–no-geo-bypass’] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug] yt-dlp version 2022.06.22.1 [a86e01e] (win32_exe) [debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 [debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs [debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.0.1-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 5.0.1-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.14.1, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest Latest version: 2022.06.22.1, Current version: 2022.06.22.1 yt-dlp is up to date (2022.06.22.1) [pbs] Downloading JSON metadata [debug] [pbs] Extracting URL: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/life-and-death-in-the-war-zone/ [pbs] life-and-death-in-the-war-zone: Downloading webpage [pbs] Downloading widget/partnerplayer page [pbs] Downloading portalplayer page ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError(‘title’)); 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 “yt_dlp\extractor\common.py”, line 647, in extract File “yt_dlp\extractor\pbs.py”, line 690, in _real_extract KeyError: ‘title’