ABC iView extractor broken by web site changes

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.06.11
• 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)

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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 -v https://iview.abc.net.au/show/apple-tree-yard
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-F', u'-v', u'https://iview.abc.net.au/show/apple-tree-yard']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0-tessus, ffprobe 4.0-tessus, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] apple-tree-yard: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] apple-tree-yard: Downloading webpage
[generic] apple-tree-yard: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/apple-tree-yard
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2308, 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 "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 11, column 46
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 500, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3263, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/apple-tree-yard

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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):

I don't know how to get a URL for a single video. iView are now using "JW Player" and all individual videos are accessed from the one page for each show.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

ABC iView (in Australia) have upgraded their site replacing Flash with JW Player and other changes. The youtube-dl extractor can no longer download videos. The example URL in the log give above is not the URL of a video or playlist but just a page for accessing individual videos by buttons. At present, I don't know how to get URLs for individual videos.

[ringofyre]

At present, I don't know how to get URLs for individual videos.

Click the share button and then copy link. Still doesn''t work tho

@dstftw could we have some clarity on which is the "Fixed" release as I have

youtube-dl version 2018.06.11

which is listed as the latest release here and is the only ver. available via -U

[dstftw]

No such release is yet released.