Weather channel extractor not working for some videos

[bmunger]

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$ youtube-dl -v "https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.14
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.4.0-64-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.20-6, avprobe 9.20-6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state: Downloading webpage
[generic] 2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1970, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/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/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 37, column 124
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2795, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2017-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-colorado-state

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Youtube-dl has an extractor for the Weather Channel, however some videos on the site are not detected as supported and default to the generic extractor and fail to download.

[keithbowes]

Some? I can't get any of them to work. I can manually copy the URLs in the source code, do a search-and-replace to replace the Unicode sequences \u002F with /, and download them, but youtube-dl doesn't work. Maybe I'll look into seeing if I can get it working, because not being able to just provide youtube-dl with the URL and have it work its magic is kinda annoying.

[bmunger]

At the time (Over 2 years ago), I was able to get some to download. I havan't tried since then.