Site Request: thesun.co.uk

[RingoTheDog]

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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:\>youtube-dl.py -v "https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2261604/orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-thanksgiving-aft
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2261604/orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-tha
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.22
[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] orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-thanksgiving-after-split-rumours: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-thanksgiving-after-split-rumours: Downloading webpage
[generic] orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-thanksgiving-after-split-rumours: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2261604/orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-thanksgiving-a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\TRANSMOGRIFIER\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\TRANSMOGRIFIER\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\TRANSMOGRIFIER\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 2443, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2261604/orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-togethe
it-rumours/

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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.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2261604/orlando-bloom-and-katy-perry-post-adorable-instagram-video-together-celebrating-thanksgiving-after-split-rumours/

• Single video: https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/news/devastating-moment-baby-elephant-tries-to-wake-its-dying-mother/

• Single video: https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/news/spider-the-size-of-a-tortoise-emerges-from-bushes-to-utter-terror-of-passer-by/

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Site request for thesun.co.uk
The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation. As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

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