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,