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WDR Mediathek downloads broken #1367

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grexe opened this issue Sep 3, 2013 · 1 comment
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WDR Mediathek downloads broken #1367

grexe opened this issue Sep 3, 2013 · 1 comment

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@grexe
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@grexe grexe commented Sep 3, 2013

get an "invalid URL" error:

[grexe@grexbox TV]$ youtube-dl --verbose "http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/abenteuer_erde/videoabenteuererderiesenschwaermediemassemachts100.html"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/abenteuer_erde/videoabenteuererderiesenschwaermediemassemachts100.html']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.30
[debug] Python version 2.7.4 - Linux-3.9.2-1-CHAKRA-x86_64-with-chakra
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] videoabenteuererderiesenschwaermediemassemachts100.html: Downloading webpage
[generic] videoabenteuererderiesenschwaermediemassemachts100.html: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/abenteuer_erde/videoabenteuererderiesenschwaermediemassemachts100.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 324, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 103, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 158, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Invalid URL: http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/abenteuer_erde/videoabenteuererderiesenschwaermediemassemachts100.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

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@phihag phihag commented Sep 3, 2013

Well, it's not so much that support for WDR got broken - we never had any specific WDR extractor ;). (Note the line

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.

). We'll look into adding support for WDR, thanks for the report!

@dstftw dstftw closed this in b461641 Mar 11, 2014
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