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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py index 419951b62..eb102244a 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py @@ -188,9 +188,13 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor): referer = smuggled_data.get('Referer', url) return self._get_video_info( videoPlayer[0], query_str, query, referer=referer) - else: + elif 'playerKey' in query: player_key = query['playerKey'] return self._get_playlist_info(player_key[0]) + else: + raise ExtractorError( + 'Cannot find playerKey= variable. Did you forget quotes in a shell invocation?', + expected=True) def _get_video_info(self, video_id, query_str, query, referer=None): request_url = self._FEDERATED_URL_TEMPLATE % query_str |