thisoldhouse.com has changed their video urls

[jcollie]

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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 ```):

$ ~/.local/bin/youtube-dl https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101
[generic] episode-101: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] episode-101: Downloading webpage
[generic] episode-101: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101
[jeff@home02 ~]$ ~/.local/bin/youtube-dl -v https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101
[debug] System config: [u'--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.8.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc25.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-25-Twenty_Five
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.3, ffprobe 3.1.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] episode-101: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] episode-101: Downloading webpage
[generic] episode-101: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1649, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 14, column 375
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 355, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2432, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101

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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.thisoldhouse.com/watch/arlington-arts-crafts-arts-and-crafts-class-begins

- Single video: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/episode-101

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

thisoldhouse.com has revamped their website so videos are access via different URLs now.

[jcollie]

Thanks!