youtube-dl: VRV.co extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('streams',))

does the program not support authentication AT ALL or has it just not yet been built into this extractor?

it’s on the VRV extractor, every extractor that require authentication need’s to add some code to handle the login process(and sometimes auth tokens if needed), this code is specific to that website. as an example lynda and udemy extractors both support authentication but the code to add support is different.

Just to clarify for everyone, the issue is that a login is required to view this video and the login hasn’t been built into the vrv extractor yet. It works just fine if you’re watching a video that requires no account. Doesn’t have anything to do with the video format. Thanks for all the help everyone

So i’ve been looking into this bug, if you use the cookies you should be able to get around the login. The problem is you still can’t get the streams. I’ve been messing with the code on the command line and I’ve sort of figured some stuff out.

The url i’ve been testing with is https://vrv.co/watch/GRGGZZ98R/Lastman:Youre-An-Asshole-Aldana. You need an account to view it.

youtube-dl --cookies cookies-vrv.txt --verbose https://vrv.co/watch/G609EZPP6/Lastman:Youre-Just-Saying-That-Cause-I-Have-a-Grenade

For example the whole issue for me is on line.

streams_path = video_data['__links__']['streams']['href']

Now that doesn’t exist but I was able to find https://api.vrv.co/cms/v2/US/M3/alpha,cartoonhangover,crunchyroll,curiositystream,dramafever,fandor,funimation,geekandsundry,mondo,mubi,nerdist,roosterteeth,shudder,tested,vrvselect/videos/GY5V1GEPY/streams in my browser.

That gives back what I think is needed by youtube-dl.

{
  "__class__": "video_streams",
  "__href__": "/cms/v2/US/M3/alpha,cartoonhangover,crunchyroll,curiositystream,dramafever,fandor,funimation,geekandsundry,mondo,mubi,nerdist,roosterteeth,shudder,tested,vrvselect/videos/GRE5Z02N6/streams",
  "__resource_key__": "cms:/videos/GRE5Z02N6/streams",
  "__links__": {
    "resource": {
      "href": "/cms/v2/US/M3/alpha,cartoonhangover,crunchyroll,curiositystream,dramafever,fandor,funimation,geekandsundry,mondo,mubi,nerdist,roosterteeth,shudder,tested,vrvselect/episodes/G609EZPP6"
    }
  },
  "__actions__": {
    
  },
  "media_id": "GRE5Z02N6",
  "audio_locale": "en-US",
  "subtitles": {
    
  },
  "streams": {
    "adaptive_dash": {
      "": {
        "hardsub_locale": "",
        "url": "https://dl.v.vrv.co/evs/fc07db519d356c05eef0f0cc1266c36c/assets/d5etm5dntkui9i2_,3339771.mp4,3339769.mp4,3339765.mp4,3339767.mp4,.urlset/manifest.mpd?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cCo6Ly9kbC52LnZydi5jby9ldnMvZmMwN2RiNTE5ZDM1NmMwNWVlZjBmMGNjMTI2NmMzNmMvYXNzZXRzL2Q1ZXRtNWRudGt1aTlpMl8sMzMzOTc3MS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2OS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2NS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2Ny5tcDQsLnVybHNldC9tYW5pZmVzdC5tcGQiLCJDb25kaXRpb24iOnsiRGF0ZUxlc3NUaGFuIjp7IkFXUzpFcG9jaFRpbWUiOjE1MjcyOTE4MDF9fX1dfQ__&Signature=a8Y-V~~p7YpQzgSNMwdM~SQY1gKQtDaao~kUjZxh0MrFaSIi6gsln6ITXmRqI9XvGvQf6zQIv6alrcJh0F1~j3~AhZq8XpoESWU~t~CJvS9dqtcoUaBXUSHtMht~Af68JFGKBvKw5R~9K7zUBglM21RyelN0cQmKCJjVa53UksAtZLzX5G7P5USvdEsfrBfKXIsx8m~iYkt0JV099aJiQeo~IzpuEGK~KJG9ncT9BsvFhcdYawzlyGZBeQUmcDz-TqxtGdQauAJ3HSCj8~eZER5Ao2EdQ1uelsuHnbnpvOg1hdAPi~zKUrpACkI4suKv2sdjKFpIrDGCXiRqVgpRMw__&Key-Pair-Id=DLVR"
      }
    },
    "adaptive_hls": {
      "": {
        "hardsub_locale": "",
        "url": "https://dl.v.vrv.co/evs/fc07db519d356c05eef0f0cc1266c36c/assets/d5etm5dntkui9i2_,3339771.mp4,3339769.mp4,3339765.mp4,3339767.mp4,.urlset/master.m3u8?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cCo6Ly9kbC52LnZydi5jby9ldnMvZmMwN2RiNTE5ZDM1NmMwNWVlZjBmMGNjMTI2NmMzNmMvYXNzZXRzL2Q1ZXRtNWRudGt1aTlpMl8sMzMzOTc3MS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2OS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2NS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2Ny5tcDQsLnVybHNldC9tYXN0ZXIubTN1OCIsIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MTUyNzI5MTgwMX19fV19&Signature=UgVRYPsi2fC4EkdLFMK8nW5Rn-bN1E-lsjYmjXoK~lgO0s0EzWHDDxMx51wjcz4ysQiVU8SIfxSFLtJ7sPwXvFnOJGyb~vtOxf7gyeT2-LDnJW0j-CIWujqL8TQBIQIZy67vMTzmHv-QDh9sU3LqzFEfb~TvoKDmLQEJUNU4MPb83lDEc4IFiHBKSNXHLTRk1qrs-DvBq1W3dA-TO~kzJME~eGewFi0eixU2FD6bjmgctkJjOUiCGODIHW4ujtEqkcXef-iivi5Jd6n7UmxdZBZafoi4Rri8T7vlZOcJD4w9HmijGlSSeVRNTqcia0B56TwT8UFL90DrUFBEQqEixw__&Key-Pair-Id=DLVR"
      }
    },
    "download_hls": {
      "": {
        "hardsub_locale": "",
        "url": "https://dl.v.vrv.co/evs/fc07db519d356c05eef0f0cc1266c36c/assets/d5etm5dntkui9i2_,3339765.mp4,.urlset/master.m3u8?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cCo6Ly9kbC52LnZydi5jby9ldnMvZmMwN2RiNTE5ZDM1NmMwNWVlZjBmMGNjMTI2NmMzNmMvYXNzZXRzL2Q1ZXRtNWRudGt1aTlpMl8sMzMzOTc2NS5tcDQsLnVybHNldC9tYXN0ZXIubTN1OCIsIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MTUyNzI5MTgwMX19fV19&Signature=dcHBZu7qzFHXoHY0nYQc4NO1Fi4lZXzZEBMsA0RURxAbAd8aI2C8OiI-KNZRFG2gTPquS~rU7Z6pUZsVOwav8EF5SZCFpfRfG1v71Sl~WuZSeXhpNpWfARY~Xgs4LMogJLNTia4z0yenJC15TgC3WCMVGxjDNZQtu5~mTo3jgF1Q2cS0VaNSEI3BKbvspL2dPawpaetzpGwasM95xKcXI3AeRqN~5e29AcKKkR25g9B~os5iPua2oJ61s2ddkMQwy2OTLm-HmP5fjluBkKgYByAK3CezqSe9Xhtd17fs7YilyYV5zfldW~EbB-SSi9mltgK8EgbFKYXbhslqQOgcAw__&Key-Pair-Id=DLVR"
      }
    },
    "multitrack_adaptive_hls_v2": {
      "": {
        "hardsub_locale": "",
        "url": "https://dl.v.vrv.co/evs/fc07db519d356c05eef0f0cc1266c36c/assets/d5etm5dntkui9i2_,3339771.mp4,3339769.mp4,3339765.mp4,3339767.mp4,.urlset/master.m3u8?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cCo6Ly9kbC52LnZydi5jby9ldnMvZmMwN2RiNTE5ZDM1NmMwNWVlZjBmMGNjMTI2NmMzNmMvYXNzZXRzL2Q1ZXRtNWRudGt1aTlpMl8sMzMzOTc3MS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2OS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2NS5tcDQsMzMzOTc2Ny5tcDQsLnVybHNldC9tYXN0ZXIubTN1OCIsIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MTUyNzI5MTgwMX19fV19&Signature=UgVRYPsi2fC4EkdLFMK8nW5Rn-bN1E-lsjYmjXoK~lgO0s0EzWHDDxMx51wjcz4ysQiVU8SIfxSFLtJ7sPwXvFnOJGyb~vtOxf7gyeT2-LDnJW0j-CIWujqL8TQBIQIZy67vMTzmHv-QDh9sU3LqzFEfb~TvoKDmLQEJUNU4MPb83lDEc4IFiHBKSNXHLTRk1qrs-DvBq1W3dA-TO~kzJME~eGewFi0eixU2FD6bjmgctkJjOUiCGODIHW4ujtEqkcXef-iivi5Jd6n7UmxdZBZafoi4Rri8T7vlZOcJD4w9HmijGlSSeVRNTqcia0B56TwT8UFL90DrUFBEQqEixw__&Key-Pair-Id=DLVR"
      }
    }
  }
}

So the question is how do I find GY5V1GEPY in order to build that url? I have the cookies for my logged in self.

an account is needed for developers interested/willing to add support for authentication, currently youtube-dl only support videos that don’t require an account(free and non age-restricted videos).

Okay so the account-needed tag was added but I have an account I’ve paid for and I’ve tried authenticating as well. Here’s the output for the time I authenticated

[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://vrv.co/watch/GYX084D3R/HarmonQuest:The-Quest-Begins', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose']
Type account password and press [Return]: 
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.15.1
[debug] Python version 3.5.4 - Linux-4.13.10-100.fc25.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-25-Twenty_Five
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vrv] GYX084D3R: Downloading webpage
ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('streams',)); 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/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vrv.py", line 110, in _real_extract
    streams_path = video_data['__links__']['streams']['href']
KeyError: 'streams'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vrv.py", line 110, in _real_extract
    streams_path = video_data['__links__']['streams']['href']
KeyError: 'streams'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 783, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 447, in extract
    raise ExtractorError('An extractor error has occurred.', cause=e)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('streams',)); 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.```

I'm running version 2017.10.15.1