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Pornhub.com - pornstar with no '/videos' page not downloading

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

[ x] I’m reporting a broken site support
[ x] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[ x] I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
[ x] I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
[ x] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'best', 'https://www.pornhub.com/pornstar/gabbie-carter', '-o', 'C:/PH/Pornstar/GabbieCarter/%(uploader)s/Uploaded/%(title)s-%(id)s-%(duration)s.%(ext)s', '-i', '--restrict-filenames', '--write-description', '--write-info-json', '--add-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4, ffprobe 3.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PornHubPagedVideoList] pornstar/gabbie-carter/videos: Downloading page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: pornstar/gabbie-carter/videos
[PornHubPagedVideoList] playlist pornstar/gabbie-carter/videos: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: pornstar/gabbie-carter/videos

Description

It appears some pornstars do not have a valid page at /videos therefore the videos of them are unable to be downloaded. e.g. pornhub.com/pornstar/gabbie-carter/videos does not exist but her videos are listed at pornhub.com/pornstar/gabbie-carter