CSpan said: Video not available at this time

[nopedd]

Checklist

• [ x] I'm reporting a broken site support
• [x ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
• [ x] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x ] 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

C:\Users\cm>youtube-dl -v --no-check https://www.c-span.org/video/?465568-1/anti
-social
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--no-check', 'https://www.c-span.org/video/?4
65568-1/anti-social']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] 465568: Downloading webpage
[CSpan] 534868: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: CSpan said: Video not available at this time
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp7hc5a0
9v\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp7hc5a0
9v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp7hc5a0
9v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\cspan.py", line 137, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: CSpan said: Video not available at this time

Description

This happening all the newer videos, how do i get the orignal file youtube dl gets without using ffmpeg with the m3u8?

[nopedd]

is this fixable or newer videos require ffmpeg to get them?

[johnhawkinson]

This seems a pretty important problem to tackle what with the compelling content on C-SPAN lately. Although I haven't had a chance to look seriously at this, it's interesting to me that the failure appears to come in different extractors depending on the presence of &live or &vod. (See below).

pb3:Downloads jhawk$ youtube-dl -v 'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.2, ffprobe 4.1.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] 467123: Downloading webpage
[brightcove:new] 5339421636001: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

pb3:Downloads jhawk$ youtube-dl -v 'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry&vod'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry&vod']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.2, ffprobe 4.1.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] 467123: Downloading webpage
[CSpan] 537522: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: CSpan said: Video not available at this time
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/cspan.py", line 137, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, get_text_attr(data, 'error')), expected=True)
ExtractorError: CSpan said: Video not available at this time

pb3:Downloads jhawk$ youtube-dl -v 'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry&live'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry&live']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.2, ffprobe 4.1.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] 467123: Downloading webpage
[brightcove:new] 5339421636001: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

pb3:Downloads jhawk$ youtube-dl -v 'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry&live&vod'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.c-span.org/video/?467123-1/hearing-evidence-impeachment-inquiry&live&vod']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.2, ffprobe 4.1.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] 467123: Downloading webpage
[CSpan] 537522: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: CSpan said: Video not available at this time
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/cspan.py", line 137, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, get_text_attr(data, 'error')), expected=True)
ExtractorError: CSpan said: Video not available at this time

pb3:Downloads jhawk$ 

[Geremia]

This seems to be a duplicate of #18806.