Unsupported URL error

[njofra22]

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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 -v https://video.kqed.org/video/the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc/ 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://video.kqed.org/video/the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.11.12-100.fc24.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-24-Twenty_Four
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.9, ffprobe 3.1.9
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc: Downloading webpage
[generic] the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://video.kqed.org/video/the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2232, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2542, 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 2531, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3182, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://video.kqed.org/video/the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc/

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Can not download free videos from pbs - kqed website.

[rajiv]

this might be fixed by #16474.

[njofra22]

No, it is not :(
Updated the version to:
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.18

Still the same error

[rajiv]

if you change the hostname to www.pbs.org it works: youtube-dl -v 'http://www.pbs.org/video/the-secret-of-tuxedo-park-zfeomc/'

i'm not sure it's practical to add all the pbs affiliates' hostnames into youtube-dl.

[njofra22]

Makes sense. Though, there are video content that is posted on the affiliate's site only (local content). How can I update youtube-dl by myself? Is there a "database" file of hostnames?

[Hrxn]

Nope, no database of hostnames or anything in that regard..

But what about changing the URL of the item that is only on the affiliate site? Maybe this still does work..

[njofra22]

Tx for the idea. It's working.