Site Request for Bigo.tv

[Mioni]

Please follow the guide below

• You will be asked some questions and requested to provide some information, please read them carefully and answer honestly
• Put an x into all the boxes [ ] relevant to your issue (like this: [x])
• Use the Preview tab to see what your issue will actually look like

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2018.11.23. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.11.23

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

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The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your issue

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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.exe http://www.bigo.tv/91604999
[generic] 91604999: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 91604999: Downloading webpage
[generic] 91604999: Extracting information
[download] Downloading playlist: BIGO LIVE
[generic] playlist BIGO LIVE: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error. Retrying (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error. Retrying (attempt 3 of 10)...
...
<end of log>

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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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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

Just recording video if the person has online, youtube dl would support this? Example on twitch.tv I can record the livestream.

Thank you!

[ealgase]

I can't actually manage to get the website to work for me, every video looks like this:

[Mioni]

I can't actually manage to get the website to work for me, every video looks like this:

Strange...here it's normal web page.