diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/bbccouk.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/bbccouk.py index 01c02d360..2d2f742ae 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/bbccouk.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/bbccouk.py @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ class BBCCoUkIE(SubtitlesInfoExtractor): webpage = self._download_webpage(url, group_id, 'Downloading video page') programme_id = self._search_regex( - r'"vpid"\s*:\s*"([\da-z]{8})"', webpage, 'vpid', fatal=False) + r'"vpid"\s*:\s*"([\da-z]{8})"', webpage, 'vpid', fatal=False, default=None) if programme_id: player = self._download_json( 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/%s.json' % group_id,