Request support for arte vod

[benjibasson83]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a new site support request
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

• Single video: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/101322-000-A/parasite/?xtor=SEC-702--Chaine-Generique--[]&gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyYKUBhDJARIsAMj9lkFeevJkc2xO7Zvlw0ep6kEG4nkYhsSho5UMPHI9RNsvxfd9nG4rhHAaAn1EEALw_wcB
• Single video: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/101322-000-A/parasite/

Description

Is one free video on demand from arte.
Nothing to subscribe to view

Here verbose

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--no-cache-dir', '--verbose', '--extract-audio', '--audio-format', 'mp3', '-w', '-i', '-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/101322-000-A/parasite/?xtor=SEC-702--Chaine-Generique--[]']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.10.4 (CPython) - Linux-4.19.157-perf+-aarch64-with-libc
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.0.1, ffprobe 5.0.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ArteTV] 101322-000-A: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); 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 "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 634, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 563, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 643, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[dirkf]

The [ArteTV] prefix in the log tells you that the page was recognised. However (depending on which switch is thrown at Arté that day) the current extractor may fail as shown above.

Duplicate of #30919, where more information may be found.