Better playlist support for The Daily Show

[keybounce]

Please follow the guide below

• You will be asked some questions and requested to provide some information, please read them carefully and answer honestly
• Put an x into all the boxes [ ] relevant to your issue (like this: [x])
• Use the Preview tab to see what your issue will actually look like

---

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.08.27.1. 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 Issues with outdated version will be rejected.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 2017.08.27.1

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• [x ] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the 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)
• [ x] Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• [ x] Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

---

I'd like to get (better) playlist support for The Daily Show.

If I toss 'http://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah' at youtube-dl, it fails.
If I toss the individual show URLs, it successfully finds all (usually 4) parts and downloads all of them.

Looking at the web page, it seems that there is only 1 or two episodes on the page itself, and the rest are fetched via javascript.

If I toss ":tds" (which I only found by looking at other reports from people with issues), then it fetches some, but not all, of the videos.

===

Separate Q: Where can I see a list of all the playlist shortcuts like :tds? (Real Time, Charlie Rose, PBS News Hour?)

[chancemimi]

And hoping youtube-dl can combine different clips into one whole episode automatically as well

[keybounce]

So :tds only returns one episode (4 parts)?

keybounceMBP:Daily michael$ youtube-dl -v --get-filename :tds
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-k', '--hls-prefer-native', '-o', '%(series)s/s%(season_number)02d-e%(episode_number)02d-%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', '\nbest[ext=mp4][height>431][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>340][height<=431]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbest[height>340][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbestvideo[height=360]+bestaudio/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>=280][height<=360]/\nbest[height<=576]/\nworst', '--ap-mso', 'Dish', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', '--write-sub', '--write-auto-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,enUS,en-us', '--sub-format', 'ass/srt/best', '--convert-subs', 'ass', '--embed-subs', '--mark-watched', '--download-archive', 'downloaded-videos.txt']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--get-filename', ':tds']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.27.1
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: enUS subtitles not available for 895f5f12-3526-413e-9849-a6ff8f5882bc
WARNING: en-us subtitles not available for 895f5f12-3526-413e-9849-a6ff8f5882bc
WARNING: enUS subtitles not available for 1b0b7476-5ad1-4682-bd18-27256c85a8be
WARNING: en-us subtitles not available for 1b0b7476-5ad1-4682-bd18-27256c85a8be
WARNING: enUS subtitles not available for d5404225-1de5-4149-a0bd-f2281bc97f7e
WARNING: en-us subtitles not available for d5404225-1de5-4149-a0bd-f2281bc97f7e
WARNING: enUS subtitles not available for 0c55be7c-a413-417a-b062-99447fa8bb02
WARNING: en-us subtitles not available for 0c55be7c-a413-417a-b062-99447fa8bb02
keybounceMBP:Daily michael$ 

Episode was already downloaded, but apparently I need to do this automatically, daily, while everything else I can do weekly.