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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.06.18. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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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 'https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3839138/elephants-team-up-save-calf-drowning-zoo-seoul'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '-v', 'https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3839138/elephants-team-up-save-calf-drowning-zoo-seoul']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.18
[debug] Python version 3.4.5 - Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.10, ffprobe 2.8.10, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[TheSun] 3839138: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Pair of giant elephants team up to save calf that fell into pool inside their zoo enclosure
[TheSun] playlist Pair of giant elephants team up to save calf that fell into pool inside their zoo enclosure: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[Ooyala] w2bnZtYjE6axZ_dw1Cd0hQtXd_ige2Is: Downloading JSON metadata
[Ooyala] w2bnZtYjE6axZ_dw1Cd0hQtXd_ige2Is: Downloading JSON metadata
[Ooyala] w2bnZtYjE6axZ_dw1Cd0hQtXd_ige2Is: Downloading f4m manifest
[Ooyala] w2bnZtYjE6axZ_dw1Cd0hQtXd_ige2Is: Downloading m3u8 information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.4/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2017.6.18', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 465, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 455, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1919, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 773, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 964, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 834, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 773, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1496, in process_video_result
    format['http_headers'] = self._calc_headers(full_format_info)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1325, in _calc_headers
    cookies = self._calc_cookies(info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1337, in _calc_cookies
    pr = sanitized_Request(info_dict['url'])
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 545, in sanitized_Request
    return compat_urllib_request.Request(sanitize_url(url), *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 267, in __init__
    self.full_url = url
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 293, in full_url
    self._parse()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 322, in _parse
    raise ValueError("unknown url type: %r" % self.full_url)
ValueError: unknown url type: ''...
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