Support for Voice of America

[nicolasmaia]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.11.15. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.11.15

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• 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?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

Voice of America is a US gov news agency that creates public domain videos, such as these:

• https://www.voaportugues.com/a/seca-crise-precedentes-africa/3844842.html
• https://www.voaafrique.com/a/4124029.html
• https://www.voanews.com/a/birds-connect-people-with-nature/4119919.html

Notice the URLs are different, but the underlying structure for metadata scraping is the same. A full list of language versions of VOA can be found at https://www.voaportugues.com/navigation/allsites.

This was originally posted at toolforge/video2commons#91 but I was sent upstream.

[enigmaquip]

The generic extractor can already handle these links