[radiocanada], [tou.tv] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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

youtube-dl -o "C:/Video/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://ici.tou.tv/tout-le-monde-en-parle/S15E11?lectureauto=1" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-o', 'C:/Video/%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://ici.tou.tv/tout-le-monde-en-parle/S15E11?lectureauto=1', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.30.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-83507-g8fa18e0, ffprobe N-83507-g8fa18e0, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[tou.tv] tout-le-monde-en-parle/S15E11: Downloading JSON metadata
[radiocanada] 144495: Downloading metadata XML
[radiocanada] 144495: Downloading ipad XML
[radiocanada] 144495: Downloading flash XML
[radiocanada] 144495: Downloading android XML
ERROR: radiocanada said: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpevd9uucb\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpevd9uucb\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 508, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpevd9uucb\build\youtube_dl\extractor\radiocanada.py", line 164, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: radiocanada said: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Another example

youtube-dl -o "C:/Video/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://ici.tou.tv/les-cartes-blanches-juste-pour-rire-2018/S01E01" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-o', 'C:/Video/%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://ici.tou.tv/les-cartes-blanches-juste-pour-rire-2018/S01E01', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.30.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-83507-g8fa18e0, ffprobe N-83507-g8fa18e0, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[tou.tv] les-cartes-blanches-juste-pour-rire-2018/S01E01: Downloading JSON metadata
[radiocanada] 144481: Downloading metadata XML
[radiocanada] 144481: Downloading ipad XML
[radiocanada] 144481: Downloading flash XML
[radiocanada] 144481: Downloading android XML
ERROR: radiocanada said: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpevd9uucb\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpevd9uucb\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 508, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpevd9uucb\build\youtube_dl\extractor\radiocanada.py", line 164, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: radiocanada said: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

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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://ici.tou.tv/les-cartes-blanches-juste-pour-rire-2018/S01E01

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

This is a new problem; the radiocanada extractor had been working properly just last month.

[m-p-3]

Interesting, maybe the pull request #16398 might have to be patched as well.