Fox News UnsupportedError, Unsupported URL

[jnbdz]

Fox News UnsupportedError, Unsupported URL

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$ youtube-dl -v http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/08/buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum.html

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/08/buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-36-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, ffprobe 2.8.6-1ubuntu2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum: Downloading webpage
[generic] buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/08/buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1644, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 6, column 26
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2388, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/08/buzz-about-bud-clinton-camp-denies-claims-wore-earpiece-at-forum.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):

In your list of supported website Fox News is there. But for some reason now it does not work. This is why I added to bugs and not new site support request.

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. Such pages will be recognized in the next version.

[xubuntu4iran]

sory, i create a new issue for problem