BFM business video extraction fails

[theedge456]

Checklist

• [ x] I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• [ x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2023.10.13
• [ 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
• [ x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• [ x] I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/replay-emissions/les-experts/les-experts-transition-verte-qui-doit-payer-13-10_VN-202310130321.html', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.10.13 [b634ba742] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.11.2 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.1.57-x86_64-with-glibc2.36 (OpenSSL 3.0.11 19 Sep 2023, glibc 2.36)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.1.3-1 (setts), ffprobe 5.1.3-1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.11.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.09.24, mutagen-1.46.0, pyxattr-0.8.1, requests-2.28.1, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-1.26.12
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib
[debug] Loaded 1890 extractors
[bfmtv] Extracting URL: https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/replay-emissions/les-experts/les-experts-transition-verte-qui-doit-payer-13-10_VN-202310130321.html
[bfmtv] 202310130321: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [bfmtv] 202310130321: Unable to extract video block; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 715, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/extractor/bfmtv.py", line 43, in _real_extract
    video_block = extract_attributes(self._search_regex(
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1263, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)

Description

The extraction fails since October 17th, 2023

[dirkf]

The pattern used by the extractor to find the Brightcove video id is too restrictive:

--- old/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bfmtv.py
+++ new/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bfmtv.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 class BFMTVBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL_BASE = r'https?://(?:www\.)?bfmtv\.com/'
     _VALID_URL_TMPL = _VALID_URL_BASE + r'(?:[^/]+/)*[^/?&#]+_%s[A-Z]-(?P<id>\d{12})\.html'
-    _VIDEO_BLOCK_REGEX = r'(<div[^>]+class="video_block"[^>]*>)'
+    _VIDEO_BLOCK_REGEX = r'(<div\s[^>]*\bclass\s*=\s*["\'](?:[\S]\s+)*video_block\b[^>]+>)'
     BRIGHTCOVE_URL_TEMPLATE = 'http://players.brightcove.net/%s/%s_default/index.html?videoId=%s'
 
     def _brightcove_url_result(self, video_id, video_block):

Also there are some improvements from the yt-dlp version to add.

[theedge456]

@dirkf
It's fixed now.
Thanks for the patch

[dirkf]

Thanks. I'll keep it open until the patch is committed.

[mycodedoesnotcompile2]

When this patch will be merged ?