Rokfin support

[P-reducible]

Discussed in #1348

^{Originally posted by P-reducible October 20, 2021}
Anybody's working on Rokfin support? If not, I might have time to look into this. Rokfin is 100% legal. It used to require log in. Not anymore. I tried to download a video and got

$ yt-dlp --verbose https://rokfin.com/stream/10033/Margaret-Thatcher-is-Ilhan-Omars-role-model-STRIKES-EVERYWHERE-Kyrie-Irving-defies-NBA--more
[debug] Command-line config: ['--verbose', 'https://rokfin.com/stream/10033/Margaret-Thatcher-is-Ilhan-Omars-role-model-STRIKES-EVERYWHERE-Kyrie-Irving-defies-NBA--more']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.10.10 (zip)
[debug] Python version 3.9.6 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.10.61-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-i7-4710MQ_CPU@_2.50GHz-with-glibc2.33
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4, ffprobe 4.4
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] ANSI escape support: stdout = True, stderr = True
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [generic] Extracting URL: https://rokfin.com/stream/10033/Margaret-Thatcher-is-Ilhan-Omars-role-model-STRIKES-EVERYWHERE-Kyrie-Irving-defies-NBA--more
[generic] Margaret-Thatcher-is-Ilhan-Omars-role-model-STRIKES-EVERYWHERE-Kyrie-Irving-defies-NBA--more: Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Could not send HEAD request to https://rokfin.com/stream/10033/Margaret-Thatcher-is-Ilhan-Omars-role-model-STRIKES-EVERYWHERE-Kyrie-Irving-defies-NBA--more: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[generic] Margaret-Thatcher-is-Ilhan-Omars-role-model-STRIKES-EVERYWHERE-Kyrie-Irving-defies-NBA--more: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [generic] Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; type yt-dlp -U to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/home/user/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 698, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/home/user/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3228, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 523, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 632, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 561, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[pukkandan]

Anybody's working on Rokfin support?

Unless you have requested support, it is unlikely anyone is working on it

I will label this as a site-request, but next time, FOLLOW THE ISSUE TEMPLATE and don't create duplicate issues