spiegel.de again: Unable to extract server URL

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$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.spiegel.de/video/geschichten-aus-dem-kalten-krieg-die-atombombe-im-vorgarten-video-99011625.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.spiegel.de/video/geschichten-aus-dem-kalten-krieg-die-atombombe-im-vorgarten-video-99011625.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.15 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.3, avprobe 12.3, ffmpeg 4.0, ffprobe 4.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Spiegel] 99011625: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract server URL; 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 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py", line 86, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'server URL', group='url')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 883, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract server URL; 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.

[Hrxn]

A release version with commit https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commit/06ea7bdd99c16b718c977a652f0ef66341ac2b6c has not happened yet, it seems…

Try running git master

[RokerHRO]

Yep, works here too. Thanks a lot! 😃