youtube-dl: Error 1025 on abc.com full shows. NOT a duplicate of #25207 or fixed by #25216

This still seems to be an issue in 2020.12.02

[debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [‘https://abc.com/shows/the-disney-holiday-singalong/episode-guide/season-01/01-the-disney-holiday-singalong’, ‘–verbose’] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.12.02 [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89409-g4678339e74, ffprobe N-89409-g4678339e74 [debug] Proxy map: {} [Go] 01-the-disney-holiday-singalong: Downloading webpage [Go] VDKA4974899: Downloading JSON metadata [debug] Using fake IP 6.114.109.177 (US) as X-Forwarded-For. [Go] VDKA4974899: Downloading JSON metadata ERROR: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes. Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkw2f2_ip\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py”, line 803, in wrapper File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkw2f2_ip\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py”, line 824, in __extract_info File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkw2f2_ip\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py”, line 532, in extract File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkw2f2_ip\build\youtube_dl\extractor\go.py”, line 205, in _real_extract youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.

I forked the master branch from commit 52c50a1. You should be able to just check out that commit from an up to date copy of the repository (git checkout 52c50a10af5de16165621f8929b64dc7267742761) and have my starting point. My local copy differs from that commit as follows:

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py
index 03cfba9..7fd0664 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py
@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ class GoIE(AdobePassIE):
                     # from http://freeform.go.com/shows/shadowhunters/episodes/season-2/1-this-guilty-blood
                     r'data-video-id=["\']*(VDKA\w+)',
                     # https://abc.com/shows/the-rookie/episode-guide/season-02/03-the-bet
-                    r'\b(?:video)?id["\']\s*:\s*["\'](VDKA\w+)'
+                    r'\bvideoIdCode["\']\s*:\s*["\'](vdka\w+)'
+                    # r'\b(?:video)?id["\']\s*:\s*["\'](VDKA\w+)'
                 ), webpage, 'video id', default=video_id)
             if not site_info:
                 brand = self._search_regex(

I should mention that I haven’t tested extensively, I actually just downloaded one episode of one show from abc.com, so it’s possible that this is only a partial fix. Anyway good luck.

This is still an issue with the current release 2020.09.20. I tried this fix with the source code and I was able to download an episode with it no problem

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Why havent they implemented a fix for ABC.com yet? its been almost 2 months! its the same message that I get everytime i try to download an ABC program: ERROR: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.