Tele5: Download fails, [Nexx] "Unable to download JSON metadata"

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support issue
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
• 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 bug reports including closed ones
• I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

Version 2020.03.24

youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio https://www.tele5.de/filme/schlefaz-sharknado-5-2/ --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio', 'https://www.tele5.de/filme/schlefaz-sharknado-5-2/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.19.97-v7l+-armv7l-with-debian-10.3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.4-1, ffprobe 4.1.4-1, phantomjs ., rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Tele5] schlefaz-sharknado-5-2: 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/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/tele5.py", line 53, in _real_extract
    r'\bdata-id\s*=\s*["\'](\d{6,})'), webpage, 'video id')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1014, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1005, 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.

Version 2020.03.24 with Update-Code 2020.04.05 (issue case: #24553 )

youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio https://www.tele5.de/filme/schlefaz-sharknado-5-2/ --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio', 'https://www.tele5.de/filme/schlefaz-sharknado-5-2/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.19.97-v7l+-armv7l-with-debian-10.3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.4-1, ffprobe 4.1.4-1, phantomjs ., rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Tele5] schlefaz-sharknado-5-2: Downloading webpage
[Tele5] schlefaz-sharknado-5-2: Downloading JSON metadata
[Nexx] 1612871: Downloading JSON metadata
[Nexx] 1612871: Downloading session/init JSON
[Nexx] 1612871: Downloading videos/byid/1612871 JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); 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.
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

Hi, i had the same issue described in case #24553, so i updated the python-code. The error “Unable to extract video id” is no longer occurring, but now there is another error when I try to use the program on this page: https://www.tele5.de/filme/schlefaz-sharknado-5-2/

Please tell me, if you need more data to verify the problem. I’m new here on GitHub.

[SebiderSushi]

I can confirm this issue. Even if the prior fix to #24553 works for some videos, this one does yield the described error.

For example, having youtube-dl release 2020.03.24 installed, running youtube-dl https://www.tele5.de/filme/boy-culture/ yields the id extraction error reporteded in #24553. But if i git clone https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl && cd youtube-dl, followed by python -m youtube_dl --verbose https://www.tele5.de/filme/boy-culture/ this starts a successful download. However, running python -m youtube_dl --verbose https://www.tele5.de/filme/schlefaz-sharknado-5-2/ immediatley after, yields the 404 error and log as reported by OP.

[FliegendeWurst]

Issue fixed here: https://github.com/FliegendeWurst/youtube-dl/tree/fix-tele5-again I’ll open a PR soon.

When downloading a single episode of a series, --no-playlist has to be used since the default appears to be --yes-playlist.