[FranceTV] Unable to download JSON metadata

[Kurt85055]

C:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin>youtube-dl --all-subs --verbose https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/franceinfo/vrai-ou-fake-l-emission/vrai-ou-fake-l-emission-du-samedi-19-fevrier-2022_4972032.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--all-subs', '--verbose', 'https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/franceinfo/vrai-ou-fake-l-emission/vrai-ou-fake-l-emission-du-samedi-19-fevrier-2022_4972032.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.22567
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2021-03-09-git-c35e456f54-full_build-www.gyan.dev, ffprobe 2021-03-09-git-c35e456f54-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[francetvinfo.fr] vrai-ou-fake-l-emission-du-samedi-19-fevrier-2022_4972032: Downloading webpage
[FranceTV] f54540fc-9234-11ec-8799-41749944cef0: Downloading video JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

[dirkf]

Unless you have applied the relevant patch, duplicate of #29956

[Kurt85055]

Hello dirkf,

I suppose I can patch the francetv.py file with @sarnoud's fix only on Linux; I'm on Windows and have only youtube-dl.exe in my C:\ffmpeg\bin folder which does not require Python that is already embedded into the binary. I have unzpped youtube-dl.exe and can see that there is a folder named youtube_dl which contains a folder named extractor which contains also francetv.pyo which is a compiled Python file! I can see no way how to patch this compiled file!

Best regards
Kurt85055

[dirkf]

Apparently it is possible (replace the .pyo file with the new .py file, recompress) but I haven't tried it.

For the moment, it's probably better to try yt-dlp for this site. It seems to work for your page.

We'll try to update yt-dl's extractor from the yt-dlp one, but the latter assumes some core changes that haven't been pulled back into yt-dl yet.

[rautamiekka]

Hello dirkf,

I suppose I can patch the francetv.py file with @sarnoud's fix only on Linux; I'm on Windows and have only youtube-dl.exe in my C:\ffmpeg\bin folder which does not require Python that is already embedded into the binary. I have unzpped youtube-dl.exe and can see that there is a folder named youtube_dl which contains a folder named extractor which contains also francetv.pyo which is a compiled Python file! I can see no way how to patch this compiled file!

Best regards Kurt85055

The only way is to install Python and download the source code. Technically you could get the universal binary (which is just a ZIP file) but that's pointless.

[dirkf]

A successful patch of the Windows self-extracting build was previously reported in connection with the YT unthrottling patch. It depended on a specific Windows zip tool.

[Kurt85055]

I confirm that yt-dlp has worked perfectly for my FranceTV page!

[nbanb]

I confirm that today (20230814), I didn't succeed in making work francetv with youtube-dl and described patchs under Debian GNU Linux BUT yt-dlp had perfectly work for me