[WNEP.COM] News Site Support Request

[AdamDanischewski]

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.07.23. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• [ X] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.07.23

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• [X ] At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• [ X] 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)
• [ X] Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
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youtube-dl -v "http://wnep.com/2017/07/22/steampunk-fest-com"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://wnep.com/2017/07/22/steampunk-fest-comes-to-honesdale/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.8.11-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.20-6, avprobe 9.20-6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] steampunk-fest-comes-to-honesdale: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] steampunk-fest-comes-to-honesdale: Downloading webpage
[generic] steampunk-fest-comes-to-honesdale: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://wnep.com/2017/07/22/steampunk-fest-comes-to-honesdale/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/scripthome/scripts/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2063, in _real_extract
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
File "/scripthome/scripts/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
File "/scripthome/scripts/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, 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 29, column 44
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/scripthome/scripts/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/scripthome/scripts/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/scripthome/scripts/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2923, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://wnep.com/2017/07/22/steampunk-fest-comes-to-honesdale/

[AdamDanischewski]

It works, thanks.