[mtv] Unsupported URL (looks like MTV changed something again)

[StevenDTX]

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E:\>youtube-dl http://www.mtv.com/episodes/g8xu7q/teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.mtv.com/episodes/g8xu7q/teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
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[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-82966-g6993bb4, ffprobe N-72383-g7206b94, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713: Downloading webpage
[generic] teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.mtv.com/episodes/g8xu7q/teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmppmszswf3\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmppmszswf3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 359, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmppmszswf3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 2551, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.mtv.com/episodes/g8xu7q/teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713

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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: http://www.mtv.com/episodes/g8xu7q/teen-mom-2-breaking-the-wall-season-7-ep-713

As of 2017-01-25, this is a "free" video.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

This worked for about a week, but it would appear that MTV changed something yet again.

[joetex72]

They did change something. I was gonna open an issue the other day.

"full-episodes"
http://www.mtv.com/full-episodes/94bd0m/sweet-vicious-the-blueprint-season-1-ep-101

now resolves to just "episodes" (dropping the "full-")
http://www.mtv.com/episodes/94bd0m/sweet-vicious-the-blueprint-season-1-ep-101

but if youtube-dl doesn't see "full-episodes" it says unsupported URL.

[StevenDTX]

Thanks, @joetex72. I modified my script to replace /episodes/ with /full-episodes/ and it works just fine.