[generic] The Guardian.com downloads javascript file (not video)

[RingoTheDog]

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>youtube-dl.py -v "https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/26/leicester-defence-claudio-ranieri-porto-champions-league"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/26/leicester-defence-claudio-ranieri-porto-champions-league']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.27
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71727-g46778ab, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] leicester-defence-claudio-ranieri-porto-champions-league: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] leicester-defence-claudio-ranieri-porto-champions-league: Downloading webpage
[generic] leicester-defence-claudio-ranieri-porto-champions-league: Extracting information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://assets.guim.co.uk/javascripts/bootstraps/enhanced/54d52f7dd1c2107bf2a8d9b3a2d0e8f3/profile.js'
[download] Destination: Leicester's Claudio Ranieri worried by defensive frailties but ready for Porto-profile.js
[download] 100% of 23.04KiB in 00:00
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<end of log>

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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: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/26/leicester-defence-claudio-ranieri-porto-champions-league
• Same video, diff URL: https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2016/sep/27/claudio-ranieri-leicester-city-porto-champions-league-video

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results in 24k .js file

thanks
Ringo

[remitamine]

work's with the latest version.

[yan12125]

I accidentally pushed the fix for this bug in bd26441. However, that commit brings more new bugs and I'm still handling them. Anyway thanks for cleaning up leftovers.