downloading from TV channel 3sat gives "Invalid URL" but worked before

[grexe]

Sadly downloading videos from the Austrian/German/Swiss cooperated TV channel 3sat stopped some time ago:

[grexe@grexbox 3sat]$ youtube-dl -t --verbose http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?obj=36983
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-t', '--verbose', 'http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?obj=36983']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.07.07.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.9.2-1-CHAKRA-x86_64-with-chakra
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[redirect] Following redirect to http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?display=1&obj=36983
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] index.php?display=1&obj=36983: Downloading webpage
[generic] index.php?display=1&obj=36983: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?display=1&obj=36983; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 92, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 125, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Invalid URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?display=1&obj=36983; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[phihag]

We never had explicit support for 3sat, just a generic downloader that tries out various common formats. It looks like 3sat has changed their playback system, and now loads the video dynamically instead of just embedding it in the website.

[phihag]

3sat is now supported as of youtube-dl 2013.07.08. Type

sudo youtube-dl -U

to update.

[grexe]

wow amazing thanks for the super-fast fix! Will try it out today and give you an update.