NBC Broke?

[jriker1]

Running version 2002.11.11-3 in Windows of Youtube-dlc. Tried downloading Saturday Night Live like I have many times in the past and received an error. The call is:

youtube-dlc --audio-quality 0 --add-metadata --ap-mso Comcast_SSO --ap-username ##### --ap-password ##### https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/december-19-kristen-wiig/4280686 -o "Saturday Night Live S46E9.mp4"

Error is:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--audio-quality', '0', '--add-metadata', '--ap-mso', 'Comcast_SSO', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/december-19-kristen-wiig/4280686', '-o', 'Saturday Night Live S46E9.mp4', '--verbose']
[debug] Loading archive file None
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dlc version 2020.11.11-3
[debug] Python version 3.9.0 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1-2020-10-01-full_build-www.gyan.dev, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NBC] 4280686: Downloading JSON metadata
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\jriker\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\youtube-dlc.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dlc_init.py", line 487, in main
real_main(argv)
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dlc_init.py", line 477, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 2103, in download
res = self.extract_info(
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dlc\extractor\common.py", line 532, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "c:\users\jriker\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dlc\extractor\nbc.py", line 135, in _real_extract
video_id = video_data['mpxGuid']
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

By the way, 5 minutes later it seemed to be working for me but not sure if it's because something changed or I went to their website with my web browser and something got cached. Either way is this working for anyone else and any idea what the above is so I could potentially capture the error and take action when I see it? Without knowing what the error "object is not subscriptable" not sure how to respond to it.

[october262]

no need to use the username & password.
just use youtube-dlc https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/december-19-kristen-wiig/4280686 the show will download

[merval]

the command your using works for me in 2020.11.11-2. I tried both ap-mso and netrc. Reading the stack you provided, it's failing to find anything for the video_id. What's interesting though is the fact you're not getting an authentication error, but you're getting a TypeError.

What I suspect happened, is when you made the request, their back-end server didn't respond correctly and you were left with a bad response.