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Unable to download abc7chicago.com's videos. #10176
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Although I am not a developer and can't fix, I have a workaround for this site that might help for the time being. View page source and look for an upylnk.com URL ending in .m3u8, for example: Then run command like this to download: |
For an example:
$ youtube-dl -v http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1436951
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1436951']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.26.2
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.2-4, ffprobe 3.0.2-4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ?pid=1436951: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?pid=1436951: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?pid=1436951: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1436951
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 682, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2329, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1436951
Thank you in advance. :)