From c7965b9fc2cae54f244f31f5373cb81a40e822ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dirkf <fieldhouse@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 18:54:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [NHK] Support alphabetic characters in 7-char NhkVod IDs
 (#29682)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py
index 8a9331a79..46a800e7e 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/nhk.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import re
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ class NhkBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _extract_episode_info(self, url, episode=None):
         fetch_episode = episode is None
         lang, m_type, episode_id = re.match(NhkVodIE._VALID_URL, url).groups()
-        if episode_id.isdigit():
+        if len(episode_id) == 7:
             episode_id = episode_id[:4] + '-' + episode_id[4:]
 
         is_video = m_type == 'video'
@@ -84,7 +85,8 @@ class NhkBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 
 class NhkVodIE(NhkBaseIE):
-    _VALID_URL = r'%s%s(?P<id>\d{7}|[^/]+?-\d{8}-[0-9a-z]+)' % (NhkBaseIE._BASE_URL_REGEX, NhkBaseIE._TYPE_REGEX)
+    # the 7-character IDs can have alphabetic chars too: assume [a-z] rather than just [a-f], eg
+    _VALID_URL = r'%s%s(?P<id>[0-9a-z]{7}|[^/]+?-\d{8}-[0-9a-z]+)' % (NhkBaseIE._BASE_URL_REGEX, NhkBaseIE._TYPE_REGEX)
     # Content available only for a limited period of time. Visit
     # https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/ for working samples.
     _TESTS = [{
@@ -124,6 +126,19 @@ class NhkVodIE(NhkBaseIE):
     }, {
         'url': 'https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/audio/j_art-20150903-1/',
         'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        # video, alphabetic character in ID #29670
+        'url': 'https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/9999a34/',
+        'only_matching': True,
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'qfjay6cg',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'DESIGN TALKS plus - Fishermen’s Finery',
+            'description': 'md5:8a8f958aaafb0d7cb59d38de53f1e448',
+            'thumbnail': r're:^https?:/(/[a-z0-9.-]+)+\.jpg\?w=1920&h=1080$',
+            'upload_date': '20210615',
+            'timestamp': 1623722008,
+        }
     }]
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):