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svtplay.se no longer working!

See original GitHub issue

I’m reporting a broken site support
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.01.24.1
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.svtplay.se/video/29854214/hur-ar-hampus-i-sangen', '--all-subs', '--verbose', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.01.24.1
[debug] Python version 3.9.1 (CPython) - macOS-10.14.6-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.3, avprobe 12.3, ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Using fake IP 78.75.181.142 (SE) as X-Forwarded-For.
[SVTPlay] 29854214: 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; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how 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/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.1.24.1/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 806, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.1.24.1/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.1.24.1/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.1.24.1/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/svt.py", line 255, in _real_extract
    svt_id = self._search_regex(
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.1.24.1/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1010, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
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; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

youtube-dl no longer works on svtplay-dl. I used it just the other day without problems, so the site must have been updated very recently to introduce new hurdles of some sort.

/Emm