BYU TV

[mfocht]

Ok, a bit of a beginner here. I ran into an issue when trying to download an episode of Studio C from BYU TV. Basically, any links from the site aren't recognized as valid links. This is a reasonably large problem, but it was also fairly easy to solve. Essentially, in the URL, they changed watch to player. So I changed that, and links were recognized again. That's progress. But, it still spits out the error "ERROR: Unable to extract episode information" I've narrowed this down to line 38 I believe. I don't really know how to fix this error, since it seems to be calling another function within common.py at line 2581. I don't really have the expertise to diagnose this any further. Hopefully someone else will see this and know what to do. I'm committing this because regardless of the fact that an error still exists, this fixes one. I would spend more time on this, but it's nearing 1 am and I have a feeling I'll forget what I was doing when I wake up. I'll create a issue and reference this pull request as well. Thanks for the help, Micah.

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BEFORE MY CHANGE:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.byutv.org/player/a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.10.0-42-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127: Downloading webpage
[generic] a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.byutv.org/player/a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2163, 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 "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 733
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 437, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3063, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.byutv.org/player/a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127

AFTER MY CHANGE:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.byutv.org/player/a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.10
[debug] Git HEAD: 1596025
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.10.0-42-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[BYUtv] a1199bd3-0012-4ca0-9ea1-fc0d21979127: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract episode information; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/plexmedia/Files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/plexmedia/Files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 437, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/plexmedia/Files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/byutv.py", line 38, in _real_extract
    r'(?s)episode:(.*?\}),\s*\n', webpage, 'episode information')
  File "/plexmedia/Files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 792, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract episode information; 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.
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[mfocht]

I created a pull request with my half fix here.