[zattoo] Add support for zattoo.com and its partner sites

[goggle]

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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):

The videos are usually only available for like 7 days! So the links probably won't work, but the scheme should be clear.

• Single video: https://zattoo.com/watch/3plus/130760870-bauer-ledig-sucht
• Live stream: https://zatto.com/watch/srf1

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

zattoo.com is a big TV streaming service provider. With a free account you can only watch the live program, with a paid account you get access to the replay functionality. All the video should be available for at least 7 days. You can make a 30 days premium account for free on zattoo.com. It's possible that some content is geo restricted.

Zattoo has several partners, which use exactly the same interface:

• https://mobiltv.quickline.com
• https://www.netplus.tv
• https://tvplus.m-net.de

Would it be possible to get support for zattoo.com and its partners into youtube-dl?

I have written a information extractor for that. As soon as it's finished, I will open a pull request.

[troych]

This seems broken atm, worked for me when I checked out the zattoo branch a couple of weeks ago, now I only get an error.

youtube-dl -v "https://zattoo.com/watch/srf_zwei/131484236-feuer-und-flamme/99350971/1511253900000/1511256300000/-300000" -o feuer_20.11.ts
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://zattoo.com/watch/srf_zwei/131484236-feuer-und-flamme/99350971/1511253900000/1511256300000/-300000', u'-o', u'feuer_20.11.ts']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.29
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.10
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.5-1, ffprobe 3.2.5-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Zattoo] Downloading https://zattoo.com
[Zattoo] Say hello
[Zattoo] Logging in
[Zattoo] 131484236: Downloading video information
[Zattoo] 131484236: Downloading dash formats
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2017.10.29-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2017.10.29-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2195, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Or could that be something on my end? I see it's timeouting somewhere, but I can watch zattoo and recordings via web.

[goggle]

@troych Unfortunately I don't have a zattoo premium account, so I cannot test this issue on my site. I have an account for a zattoo partner though, but there I have only 7 days replay available, and your video seems to older than that. Have you encountered the same issue for a recent video?

[troych]

Ye the video in question is a recording, not via replay. Just tested a file within the 7 day replay period and there it works indeed. So I guess the recording bit is broken. I guess I could give you access to my zattoo account if that would help? Not sure how that works with geo restrictions and the likes though, since I'm situated in Switzerland.

[goggle]

@troych I was not aware that there is a recording feature for zattoo, because I use the zattoo partner Quickline and they don't offer this. I have just seen that I can record up to 20 shows with my free zattoo account. I am recording something now and I will test this recording with this information extractor afterwards.

[goggle]

@troych I have added support for zattoo recordings, you just need to pull my latest commit ce8053b. Please test it with your premium account and let me know if everything works as expected.

[troych]

Just had a quick go, recording downloading as we speak. Thank you very much for the help and fix. :)

[MarS919]

I have a premium account. Downloading my Zattoo recordings works using goggle's commit ce8053b. Thanks!

[goggle]

@troych @MarS919 To get my pull request for Zattoo support into the official master branch of youtube-dl, the maintainer of youtube-dl @dstftw needs a zattoo premium account to test my code. If any of you could provide their login credentials to @dstftw for testing purposes, that would be great (see the discussion in #14676). Also @dstftw needs to have access to a Swiss IP or an IP from the country where your zattoo account is registered at (because zattoo is heavily geo-restricted), but I guess this shouldn't be a problem.
As far as I see, the one thing that should be added to my code is a correct way to handle the geo-restriction errors.

[troych]

I've contacted dstftw, thanks for the heads up.

[goggle]

@troych @dstftw Do we have any news about this?

[dstftw]

Haven't received any credentials.

[troych]

@dstftw I sent you an email on the 4th, never got an answer though?

I don't know how I can contact you through other channels, sorry.

[troych]

@goggle Can you get in contact with @dstftw, I'll be happy to lend my account for testing but I can't seem to get a response via email.

[goggle]

@troych Sure, I can try. Can you PM me your email address, so I can give it to dstftw, that he knows who you are?

Edit: There is no PM feature anymore on github, so just write me a mail: seileralex at gmail dot com

[dstftw]

I guess I made it quite clear: if you want to provide account credentials send account credentials not requests to contact somebody at somewhere.

[troych]

Well, I sent you an email asking you about the need for vpn since zattoo is geo restricted. I was just looking for a quick sign of life so I can change my password to something I can send out. I did not want to make this overly complicated, and wasn't intending to make your access any harder then it needs to be.

I hope you understand that I didn't just want to send account credentials without knowing if a) they're actually useful to you because of geo restrictions and b) the email I wrote to is actually in use.

Sorry for any misunderstandings.

[troych]

@dstftw I've sent credentials to your gmail account, if I can provide anything else let me know.