[Crackle] - Movies not recognised as valid URL's

[zoocey]

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• [ x] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.08.22

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• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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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 -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

C:\you>youtube-dl.py -F -v http://www.crackle.com/angel-of-death
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-F', u'-v', u'http://www.crackle.com/angel-of-deat
h']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-80953-gd4c8e93, ffprobe N-80953-gd4c8e93
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] angel-of-death: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] angel-of-death: Downloading webpage
[generic] angel-of-death: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.crackle.com/angel-of-death
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\you\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 1633, in _re
al_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "C:\you\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_f
romstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=
_element_factory)))
  File "C:\you\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 22, column 385
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\you\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info

    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\you\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 347, in extra
ct
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\you\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 2377, in _re
al_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.crackle.com/angel-of-death

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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: http://www.crackle.com/angel-of-death

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Every movie from the movie section on Crackle fails as being recognized from Crackle and falls back to the generic extractor (which fails).

[yan12125]

Superseded by #11775. Like the newer report, I can't find videos in http://www.crackle.com/angel-of-death. If anyone know how to watch crackle videos outside US, feel free to proposed it.