Support for Minds.com

[someguy736]

I would like to request Minds.com support if you get the chance.

[dstftw]

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[someguy736]

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.05.26. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.05.26

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

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The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your issue

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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 ```):

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>

youtube-dl -v "https://www.minds.com/archive/view/715172106794442752"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--no-check-certificate', u'--output', u'/home/main/dlr/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s/%(title)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s', u'--user-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible)', u'--audio-quality', u'0', u'--merge-output-format', u'mp4', u'--sub-lang', u'en', u'--all-subs', u'--sub-format', u'srt', u'--embed-subs', u'--write-description', u'--retries', u'10', u'--sleep-interval', u'1', u'--max-sleep-interval', u'5', u'-i', u'-f', u'(mp4)[height=360]/(mp4)[height=480]/[height=1080]/best', u'--playlist-end', u'35', u'--dateafter', u'20151104', u'--download-archive', u'/home/main/.config/youtube-dl/archive', u'--no-call-home', u'--external-downloader', u'aria2c', u'--external-downloader-args', u"--continue=true --check-integrity=true --max-connection-per-server=5 --min-split-size=1M --max-tries=0 --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (compatible)'"]
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.minds.com/archive/view/715172106794442752']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-75-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 715172106794442752: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 715172106794442752: Downloading webpage
[generic] 715172106794442752: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.minds.com/archive/view/715172106794442752
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1970, 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 1653, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 32, column 41
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2795, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.minds.com/archive/view/715172106794442752

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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.minds.com/archive/view/715172106794442752
  https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/798025111988506624
• Single video: ???
• Playlist: ???

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I wasn't sure I needed anything else for a site support request. Nonetheless I have provided the requested information.

[Tatsh]

I am working on this in my fork.