Support request for theguardian.com/news/audio/ podcasts

[Rava77]

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Checklist

• I'm reporting a new site support request
• I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version 2023.10.13 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
• I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
• I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights or contain any DRM to the best of my knowledge
• I've searched known issues and the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
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Region

Germany

Example URLs

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/oct/30/the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast

Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood

First tried it with yt-dlp version 2023.10.13 , then updated to nightly@2023.10.28.155411
Both times I got the same error:

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

$ yt-dlp -vUF https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/oct/30/the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vUF', 'https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/oct/30/the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2023.10.28.155411 [4a601c9ef] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.9.18 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-5.4.30-porteus-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_______Q_720__@_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.35 (OpenSSL 1.1.1w  11 Sep 2023, glibc 2.35)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.2 (setts), ffprobe 4.4.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: brotli-1.0.9, sqlite3-3.37.2, urllib3-1.26.8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib
[debug] Loaded 1890 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/latest
Available version: nightly@2023.10.28.155411, Current version: nightly@2023.10.28.155411
Current Build Hash: 571d1fa9feeab2d00113dd890b62b8e06e25ba9ed5b968d22f300b7b5eb0b96a
yt-dlp is up to date (nightly@2023.10.28.155411)
[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/oct/30/the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast
[generic] the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor
[generic] the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast: Extracting information
[debug] Looking for embeds
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/oct/30/the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1567, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1702, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 715, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py", line 2577, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/oct/30/the-trials-of-robert-habeck-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-politician-doomed-to-fail-podcast

[SirElderling]

This one appears to be straight forward. Everything is in plain sight in the html code.
I can take a look into coding this once I find the time.

[Rava77]

^
Good to know. After looking into Page Info / Tab: Media the link to the podcast is a standard URL and not a blob resource:
https://audio.guim.co.uk/2023/10/24-52737-gdn.alr.301023.NA_PHILIP_OLTERMANN.mp3

Hopefully that small info helps you in coding support for theguardian.com/news/audio/ .