youtube-dl: Funimation fails to parse JSON
Checklist
- I’m reporting a broken site support
- I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.04.26
- 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://www.funimation.com/shows/talentless-nana/healing/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.04.26
[debug] Python version 3.9.4 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-19041-Microsoft-x86_64-with-glibc2.31
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Funimation] healing: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [Funimation] healing: Failed to parse JSON Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
ERROR: Unable to extract al:web:url; 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 "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 806, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/funimation.py", line 96, in _real_extract
player_url = self._html_search_meta([
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1140, in _html_search_meta
return self._html_search_regex(
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1021, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/python@3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract al:web:url; 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.
Description
Funimation extractor fails to parse JSON.
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 20
@dstftw What is this a duplicate of? Can you link it so I can follow that one? Because to me it looks like you just closed all of the issues pertaining to this problem without any fixes being issued