From a181f56cb02c395c397d5c3d3bd24dec76b7882a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R0hanW <30849420+R0hanW@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 15:43:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use url capture group instead of adding .json to url

Co-authored-by: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/playerfm.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/playerfm.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/playerfm.py
index 96856a7b62..a4819bdab6 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/playerfm.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/playerfm.py
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ class PlayerFmIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # podcast url is always after last backlash
-        video_id = self._match_id(url)
-        data = self._download_json(url + '.json', None)
+        video_id, url = self._match_valid_url(url).group('id', 'url')
+        data = self._download_json(url + '.json', video_id)
 
         title = data.get('title')
         description = data.get('description')