Site Support Request for truTV.com

[jdunn0]

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$ youtube-dl -v http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.31-gentoo_no_offensive_sites
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-4.4.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day: Downloading webpage
[generic] why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day.html

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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):

• No Authentication Needed video: http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/why-you-dont-need-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day.html
• TV Provider Authentication Required Video: http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/adam-ruins-everything/2084661/index.html

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I would like support for truTV.com videos.
Some of the videos require TV Provider Authentication and some don't require it.

[yan12125]

@dstftw Seems it's a wrong label?

[Deflated-Criossant]

if what 'jdunn0 ' provided is not enough,
please use the following links

"site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

may require TV login
see if it can be bypassed

All
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/index.html

shows list
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/adam-ruins-everything/index.html

http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/the-carbonaro-effect/index.html

http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/those-who-cant/index.html

http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/hack-my-life/index.html

http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/billy-on-the-street/index.html

show playlist
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/index.html

playslit episodes
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2075772/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2075772/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084634/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084634/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084633/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084633/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084632/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084632/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084631/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084631/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084630/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084630/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084629/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/impractical-jokers/2084629/index.html

thank you

[jdunn0]

It might be worth noting that truTV is owned by "Turner Entertainment Networks" so an extractor for it maybe similar to the ones for other Turner Networks like TBS and Cartoon Network.