Support RTBF videos

[RyanVoProductions]

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2018.02.11. 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 Issues with outdated version will be rejected.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 2018.02.11

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
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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

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The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your issue

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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:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

youtube-dl -f best --geo-bypass-country BE https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/emissions/detail_wishfart?id=12470 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'best', '--geo-bypass-country', 'BE', 'https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/emissions/detail_wishfart?id=12470', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.11
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.16299
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.4, ffprobe 3.3.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Using fake IP 57.95.37.117 (BE) as X-Forwarded-For.
[generic] detail_wishfart?id=12470: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] detail_wishfart?id=12470: Downloading webpage
[generic] detail_wishfart?id=12470: Extracting information
[download] Downloading playlist: Wishfart
[generic] playlist Wishfart: Collected 2 video ids (downloading 2 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 2
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/emissions/{{ mp4_video }}'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1896, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1835, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 364, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 340, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2199, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
...
<end of log>

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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: https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/emissions/detail_wishfart?id=12470

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I want to download something from RTBF, but the site is not supported, mainly because it's geo-restricted. Will they bypass geo-restriction?

[RyanVoProductions]

@dstftw Can you help me with this?

[LubosKolouch]

Is this still an issue?