BBC News fails with "Unable to extract playlist data" error

[Prill]

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I attempted to download the following video: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-69023225

It fails with the message "Unable to extract playlist data".

Running with --write-pages produces the following dump: https://gist.github.com/Prill/728801a3439788a4a0a66c49ca7846da

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
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Complete Verbose Output

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-69023225']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [ff0779267] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.3 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-13.6.4-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.2.1 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 7.0 (setts), ffprobe 7.0
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.45.2, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1810 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date ([email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[bbc] Extracting URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-69023225
[bbc] uk-england-leeds-69023225: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [bbc] uk-england-leeds-69023225: Unable to extract playlist data; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.4.9_1/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 734, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.4.9_1/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/bbc.py", line 1291, in _real_extract
    self._search_regex(
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.4.9_1/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1321, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)

[Prill]

Please let me know if I didn't provide enough information.

[bashonly]

You went above-and-beyond with providing info; thanks!

Have to close this as a duplicate of #9701, though. And yes, that issue's title is not exactly optimized for searches, so no worries.

This will be fixed by #9705

[Prill]

Is there a known workaround? I don't mind poking around the source code for a m3u8 URL or whatever, but I couldn't find one in this case.

[bashonly]

@Prill The PR has been merged. If you installed with homebrew, you can do this to install from the master branch:

brew uninstall yt-dlp
brew install --HEAD yt-dlp

[Prill]

Danke. I'll probably wait until it's officially in the release; it's not urgent.