Repository: youtube-dl
Issue: problem with ESPN link
Labels: account-needed

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Add `-v` flag to **your command line** you run youtube-dl with, copy the **whole** output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with **your** log inserted between triple ```):

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$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.21.2-gentoo_no_offensive_sites
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Linux-4.1.15-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8400_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>
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### If the purpose of this _issue_ is a _site support request_ please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by **yours**):
- Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
- Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
- Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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```

Program said to report bug. :) I did check with --list-extractors, and it indicated that ESPN is supported.

$ youtube-dl --verbose 'http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player?id=2811559'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '--verbose', 'http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player?id=2811559']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.21.2-gentoo_no_offensive_sites
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Linux-4.1.15-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8400_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ESPN] player?id=2811559: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 341, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/espn.py", line 57, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'video id', group='id')
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 644, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
```