Support for nick.com

[ghost]

Nick.com doesn't work with the generic downloader.

$ youtube-dl http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html: Downloading webpage
[generic] legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
$ youtube-dl http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html', '--verbose']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.09.20.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html: Downloading webpage
[generic] legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 321, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 103, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 163, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Invalid URL: http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

Sample video: http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-116-full-episode.html

[HalosGhost]

I don't know if multiple people hoping for support makes a difference, but I would love to see the inclusion of support for nick.com.

[jamesBrosnahan]

The URLs are the same type as Comedy Central's website; the only difference is that nick.com stores their urls in the cookie/cache of the browser and doesn't resend it. rtmpe is the protocol used with the resolution being the suffix of the URL.

[iggyvolz]

If anyone needs a launching point to start this from (or if I would be able to do this), I have a codebase put in with ffmpeg for RTMP streams in a repo: https://github.com/iggyvolz/korra-dl. This code goes from the episode hash (which is exposed by the browser page) to the RTMPE URL, which I assume can be done fairly easily.

[ddevault]

Here to express support for this issue.

[HalosGhost]

@iggyvolz, interesting work. Though, it seems you don't expose 1080p (which nick.com does support if I remember correctly). I am still hoping nick makes it into youtube-dl-proper.

[jamesBrosnahan]

Here is a video on how to get links using ettercap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tGR2lS-F8Q
search with grep for rtmp links

[remitamine]

will be supported in the next version.