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[seojoohyun]

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• Single video: http://www.dramalove.tv/drama/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo/wfkbj-episode-1/

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I was able to download from the www.dramalove.tv site up until yesterday, today using the same version that had previously worked I get Unsupported URL error. Updated to latest version, no difference.

ytdl -v http://www.dramalove.tv/drama/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo/wfkbj-episode-1/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.dramalove.tv/drama/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo/wfkbj-episode-1/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-52-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] wfkbj-episode-1: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] wfkbj-episode-1: Downloading webpage
[generic] wfkbj-episode-1: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.dramalove.tv/drama/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo/wfkbj-episode-1/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1626, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2526, 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 2515, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 65, column 12
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2433, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.dramalove.tv/drama/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo/wfkbj-episode-1/

[seojoohyun]

Okay, the whole site seems to be gone now.. all I get is a 404 error. I guess we can forget this one.

[yan12125]

OK feel free to open a new issue if the site is back.