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ZDF mediathek no longer works #27084

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opened 2026-02-21 14:38:08 -05:00 by deekerman · 5 comments

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2026-02-21 14:38:08 -05:00

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Originally created by @mk-pmb on GitHub (Mar 26, 2025).

Workaround

Try --force-generic --format=0
That works for me. Thanks, dirkf!
Caveat: It seems to be very CPU hungry, so consider limiting its priority.

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I'm reporting a broken site support
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 all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

There seem to be two variants of the URL, and for each I also tried with --no-playlist as suggested.

for TOPDIR in play video ; do for OPT in '' --no-playlist ; do $YTDL $OPT "https://www.zdf.de/$TOPDIR/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100" ; echo; done ; done |& tee -- zdf.log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', 'https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020 - glibc …
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7
[debug] Proxy map: {…}
[debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For.
[ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage
[ZDFChannel] Downloading playlist die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100 - add --no-playlist to download just the main video
[download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt
[ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', '--no-playlist', 'https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020 - glibc …
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7
[debug] Proxy map: {…}
[debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For.
[ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage
[ZDFChannel] Downloading just the main video because of --no-playlist
[download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt
[ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', 'https://www.zdf.de/video/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020 - glibc …
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7
[debug] Proxy map: {…}
[debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For.
[ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage
[ZDFChannel] Downloading playlist die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100 - add --no-playlist to download just the main video
[download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt
[ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', '--no-playlist', 'https://www.zdf.de/video/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020 - glibc …
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7
[debug] Proxy map: {…}
[debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For.
[ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage
[ZDFChannel] Downloading just the main video because of --no-playlist
[download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt
[ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt

Description

Usually I can just copy ZDF URLs from my browser and ytdl does the right thing. I have no idea what's wrong today.
Maybe the URL syntax has changed. I don't remember what it used to be, but when I copied the URL it looked vaguely wrong, it felt unfamiliar.

Originally created by @mk-pmb on GitHub (Mar 26, 2025). ## Workaround Try `--force-generic --format=0` That works for me. Thanks, dirkf! Caveat: It seems to be very CPU hungry, so consider limiting its priority.  ## Checklist  - [x] I'm reporting a broken site support - [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version **2021.12.17** - [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 issues including closed ones ## Verbose log There seem to be two variants of the URL, and for each I also tried with `--no-playlist` as suggested. ```text for TOPDIR in play video ; do for OPT in '' --no-playlist ; do $YTDL $OPT "https://www.zdf.de/$TOPDIR/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100" ; echo; done ; done |& tee -- zdf.log [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', 'https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 - glibc … [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7 [debug] Proxy map: {…} [debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For. [ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage [ZDFChannel] Downloading playlist die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100 - add --no-playlist to download just the main video [download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them) [download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', '--no-playlist', 'https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 - glibc … [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7 [debug] Proxy map: {…} [debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For. [ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage [ZDFChannel] Downloading just the main video because of --no-playlist [download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them) [download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', 'https://www.zdf.de/video/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 - glibc … [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7 [debug] Proxy map: {…} [debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For. [ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage [ZDFChannel] Downloading playlist die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100 - add --no-playlist to download just the main video [download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them) [download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--no-call-home', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--keep-video', '--restrict-filenames', '--output', '…', '--write-info-json', '--format=best', '--verbose', '--no-playlist', 'https://www.zdf.de/video/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Git HEAD: 4e714f9df [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-…-x86_64-with-glibc… - OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 - glibc … [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7 [debug] Proxy map: {…} [debug] Using fake IP … (DE) as X-Forwarded-For. [ZDFChannel] die-anstalt-vom-11-maerz-2025-100: Downloading webpage [ZDFChannel] Downloading just the main video because of --no-playlist [download] Downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt [ZDFChannel] playlist Die Bürokratie-Anstalt: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them) [download] Finished downloading playlist: Die Bürokratie-Anstalt ``` ## Description Usually I can just copy ZDF URLs from my browser and ytdl does the right thing. I have no idea what's wrong today. Maybe the URL syntax has changed. I don't remember what it used to be, but when I copied the URL it looked vaguely wrong, it felt unfamiliar.

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2026-02-21 14:38:08 -05:00

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:38:10 -05:00

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Mar 26, 2025):

Indeed: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12647#issuecomment-2733653223. We need to adapt that and the yt-dlp PR.

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Mar 26, 2025): Indeed: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12647#issuecomment-2733653223. We need to adapt that and the _yt-dlp_ PR.

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:38:12 -05:00

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@mk-pmb commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2025):

The last HTML tag in <head> is (JSON declobbered by me):

<script id="…" type="application/ld+json">{
  "@context":"https://schema.org",
  "@type":"VideoObject",
  "name":"Die Bürokratie-Anstalt",
  …,
  "contentUrl":"https://zdfvod.….mp4.csmil/master.m3u8",
  "hasPart":[]
}</script>

We should have a generic downloader for that, right? Why didn't that one pick it up?
When I manually copy the contentUrl and use that as my CLI argument, it downloads, but has no useful metadata (filename consists of just "NA" and "master" parts.)

@mk-pmb commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2025): The last HTML tag in `<head>` is (JSON declobbered by me): ```html <script id="…" type="application/ld+json">{ "@context":"https://schema.org", "@type":"VideoObject", "name":"Die Bürokratie-Anstalt", …, "contentUrl":"https://zdfvod.….mp4.csmil/master.m3u8", "hasPart":[] }</script> ``` We should have a generic downloader for that, right? Why didn't that one pick it up? When I manually copy the contentUrl and use that as my CLI argument, it downloads, but has no useful metadata (filename consists of just "NA" and "master" parts.)

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:38:12 -05:00

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2025):

Possibly --force-generic would succeed partially (ie, without full metadata: only title from the quoted snippet).

The yt-dlp issue and PR show that there are quite few site changes that need to be analysed and reflected back into the extractor. I have the yt-dl WIP version of the patch that I posted there, but there is continuing development that I'll allow to stabilise before updating here.

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2025): Possibly `--force-generic` would succeed partially (ie, without full metadata: only `title` from the quoted snippet). The _yt-dlp_ issue and PR show that there are quite few site changes that need to be analysed and reflected back into the extractor. I have the _yt-dl_ WIP version of the patch that I posted there, but there is continuing development that I'll allow to stabilise before updating here.

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:38:12 -05:00

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@mk-pmb commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2025):

--force-generic --format=0 works for me. Thanks!

@mk-pmb commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2025): `--force-generic --format=0` works for me. Thanks!

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:38:12 -05:00

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Apr 7, 2025):

I'd rather keep this open to track the full extractor update.

Related: #31428, PR #17863.

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Apr 7, 2025): I'd rather keep this open to track the full extractor update. Related: #31428, PR #17863.

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