Site Support Request: Channel 4

[DrHyde]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.09.15

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

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)

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:

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off/on-demand/66406-004
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off/on-demand/66406-004']
[debug] Encodings: locale US-ASCII, fs utf-8, out US-ASCII, pref US-ASCII
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.4, ffprobe 3.3.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 66406-004: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 66406-004: Downloading webpage
[generic] 66406-004: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off/on-demand/66406-004
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2116, in _real_extract
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
File "/usr/local/bin/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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 30, column 186
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2964, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off/on-demand/66406-004

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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: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off/on-demand/66406-004
• Playlist: don't think this is supported.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Please add support for Channel 4. I know this has been asked for in the past and rejected, eg #5121, but they recently added support for downloading in their "All 4" app on Android, so presumably it's possible now.

[mtbc]

It's helpful to know which it's a duplicate of! Maybe #2050, though given the,

they recently added support for downloading

I don't know if the analysis on that issue has become out of date. (Or perhaps the point is that #5121 should have been commented on instead.)