[ESPN] ESPN+ "Unable to open key file" and "ffmpeg exited with code 1"

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Using site URL

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\ffmpeg\\ffmpeg-20180502-e07b191-win32-static\\bin', 'http://www.espn.com/
watch/film/cf950763-9adb-4acf-b04e-425d8676615c/tommy', '-f', '4600', '-o', 'W:\\Work\\ESPNPlus.Test.720p.WEB-DL.x264-YouTube-DL.mkv']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.01
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-90920-ge07b1913fc, ffprobe N-90920-ge07b1913fc, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ESPNArticle] tommy: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  you
tube-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\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 440, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\espn.py", line 204, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 820, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video id; 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.

Using m3u8 URL

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\ffmpeg\\ffmpeg-20180502-e07b191-win32-static\\bin', 'https://hlsvod-l3c-c
lt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/master_wired60_s2.m3u8', '-f', '4600', '
-o', 'W:\\Work\\ESPNPlus.Test.720p.WEB-DL.x264-YouTube-DL.mkv']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.01
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-90920-ge07b1913fc, ffprobe N-90920-ge07b1913fc, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] master_wired60_s2: Requesting header
[generic] master_wired60_s2: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/15
20999867346/asset_3500k.m3u8'
[download] Destination: W:\Work\ESPNPlus.Test.720p.WEB-DL.x264-YouTube-DL.mkv
[debug] ffmpeg command line: "C:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg-20180502-e07b191-win32-static\bin\ffmpeg" -y -loglevel verbose -headers "Accept-Encoding: gzi
p, deflate
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0 (Chrome)
" -i "https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/asset_3500k.m3
u8" -c copy -f mp4 "-bsf:a" aac_adtstoasc "file:W:\Work\ESPNPlus.Test.720p.WEB-DL.x264-YouTube-DL.mkv.part"
ffmpeg version N-90920-ge07b1913fc Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 7.3.0 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-lib
ass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg -
-enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwav
pack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-
libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx
--enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth
  libavutil      56. 18.100 / 56. 18.100
  libavcodec     58. 19.100 / 58. 19.100
  libavformat    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
  libavdevice    58.  4.100 / 58.  4.100
  libavfilter     7. 21.100 /  7. 21.100
  libswscale      5.  2.100 /  5.  2.100
  libswresample   3.  2.100 /  3.  2.100
  libpostproc    55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
[AVIOContext @ 05b37a00] The "user-agent" option is deprecated: use the "user_agent" option instead
[hls,applehttp @ 05b33080] HLS request for url 'https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e
-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/asset_3500k/00000/asset_3500k_00001.ts', offset 0, playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 05b33080] Opening 'https://playback.svcs.plus.espn.com/media/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/keys/6eb41ad2-a2e3-4ba9-b
b8f-e7e72c19aa56' for reading
[https @ 06c8a980] The "user-agent" option is deprecated: use the "user_agent" option instead
Unable to open key file https://playback.svcs.plus.espn.com/media/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/keys/6eb41ad2-a2e3-4ba9-bb8f-e7e72c19
aa56
[hls,applehttp @ 05b33080] Opening 'crypto+https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add9
49b25ab5/1520999867346/asset_3500k/00000/asset_3500k_00001.ts' for reading
[https @ 06f7cb40] The "user-agent" option is deprecated: use the "user_agent" option instead
[hls,applehttp @ 05b33080] Error when loading first segment 'https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-9
4a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/asset_3500k/00000/asset_3500k_00001.ts'
https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/asset_3500k.m3u8: In
valid data found when processing input


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 471, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 461, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1993, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 800, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 854, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1627, in process_video_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1900, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1839, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 365, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\downloader\external.py", line 64, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 166, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 617, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpulhs0gaq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 579, in trouble
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://www.espn.com/watch/film/cf950763-9adb-4acf-b04e-425d8676615c/tommy
• m3u8 of URL: https://aeng.svcs.plus.espn.com/settoken/redirect/v1?sect=espnplus:web:vod:en&ssess=d912566c-71d2-47dc-be27-d5a421fce34d&trk=s&platform=web&app=espn&partnr=espn&uid={A667818B-850A-4010-A781-8B850A7010D6}&swid={A667818B-850A-4010-A781-8B850A7010D6}&cdn=LEVEL3&corigin=CLT1&mediaurl=https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/master_wired60_s2.m3u8

or

• m3u8 of URL: https://hlsvod-l3c-clt1.media.plus.espn.com/ps01/espn/hls/2018/03/14/855deb02-94a8-4b63-874e-add949b25ab5/1520999867346/master_wired60_s2.m3u8

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Is I missing somethings obvious here?

Get “Unable to open key file” and “Error when loading first segment” and “ffmpeg exited with code 1” errors. Whats wrong? Do I needs to pass more informations through CLI ?

ESPN+ video. It’s required to have ESPN+. I have account.

ESPN+ has a free trial if an account for testing needing. Just go here: https://plus.espn.com/

Any helps appreciated? Thanks!

[thesteveway]

try this…

youtube-dl --add-header “authorization:KEY” “M3U8”

the key is the reallyyyyy long string

[tml]

@thesteveway Probably late for you, but just putting all of this together for myself. In Chrome:

1. Inspect -> Network
2. Refresh page
3. Filter for “key”; under “Request Headers” one link will have authorization: followed by a lot of characters. Copy and paste these somewhere.
4. Filter for “m3u8”, copy the link to the m3u8 of choice.
5. Run the following, inserting the copied key and m3u8 url:

youtube-dl --add-header "authorization:**pastekeyhere**" "**m3u8URLhere**"

They seem to have switched up the mechanism; now the auth key is stored in the HTTP header dss-session-token in a URL that contains the query parameter entitlements