VHX/Vimeo sites no longer working
See original GitHub issueChecklist
- I’m reporting a broken site support
- I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.12.26
- 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
Verbose log
<!--
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://embed.vhx.tv/videos/532213?api=1&auth-user-token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzkwNDYyMiwiZXhwIjoxNjA5MDM2NDkxfQ.9N9yZ5zN3LHGYaHyPgC8Tn2ywQcimkEODDZ4LVHWKF0'
]
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.12.26
[debug] Python version 3.6.9 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-1029-gcp-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.8, ffprobe 3.4.8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vhx:embed] 532213: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract ott data; 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/python3.6/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 803, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 824, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 1127, in _real_extract
'ott data'), video_id, js_to_json)['config_url']
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-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 ott data; 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 su
re to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Description
I used to use youtube-dl for these types of VHX/vimeo sites - however I can’t seem to get them working anymore. Any thoughts?
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generic support VHX Embeds will be added in the next version.
For anyone that makes it here and is scratching their head about this, the VHX VoD works in yt-dlp, but you do have to paste the entire long string from the embed source
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tested on Ubuntu 20 on WSL2.0 yt-dlp is up to date (2021.11.10.1)