[site support request] UpskillCourses

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.05.09

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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:

F:\>youtube-dl -v http://upskillcourses.com/courses/essential-web-developer-course/lectures/1797384
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--no-mtime', '--console-title']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://upskillcourses.com/courses/essential-web-developer-course/lectures/1797384']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.09
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-84348-gdb7a05d, ffprobe N-84348-gdb7a05d
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 1797384: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 1797384: Downloading webpage
[generic] 1797384: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://upskillcourses.com/courses/essential-web-developer-course/lectures/1797384
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpup5muf90\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 760,
in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpup5muf90\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", lin
e 433, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpup5muf90\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", li
ne 2834, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://upskillcourses.com/courses/essential-web-developer-course/lec
tures/1797384

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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://upskillcourses.com/courses/essential-web-developer-course/lectures/1797384
• Playlist: http://upskillcourses.com/courses/enrolled/119763

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

This is a free course. The files are loaded in TS format. So, it can't be downloaded by other methods and I know only youtube-dl can do it. But, there are some issues.

1. If you are not logged in and you go to the playlist above, you will be redirected where only a few videos are available, which youtube-dl can download. You need to be logged in to view all videos. Similarly, if you use the single video link above in youtube-dl, it can't download as it's not available without login. Account creation is simple just like any other site. The login page is a different url: https://sso.teachable.com. Here is an account I created for this support request:
   email: ydl@github.com
   password: 123456

2. There are multiple versions of same resolution format. e.g.

   • hd_mp4_video-1 mp4 1920x1080 547k , mp4 container, h264@5625k, 29.15MiB
   • original mp4 1920x1080 5599k , 297.95MiB (best)

I want to download the smaller size file for 1080p. How do I do that, as there are no format numbers like in youtube?