having problem on gaia.com with account

[miccitant]

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I have troubles to dl from gaia.com with account - have user and pw

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 ```):

miccitants-MacBook-Pro:~ micci$ /usr/bin/python $(which youtube-dl) -v -u xxxxxxx https://www.gaia.com/video/psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'https://www.gaia.com/video/psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature']
Type account password and press [Return]: 
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.3, avprobe 12.3, ffmpeg 4.0.1, ffprobe 4.0.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature: Downloading webpage
[generic] psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature: Extracting information
WARNING: [generic] psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature: Failed to parse JSON Extra data: line 8 column 3 - line 40 column 3 (char 387 - 1280)
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.gaia.com/video/psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature
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 14, column 709
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://www.gaia.com/video/psychedelics-and-consciousness?fullplayer=feature
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<end of log>

i add another issue with gaia.com:

miccitants-MacBook-Pro:~ micci$ /usr/bin/python $(which youtube-dl) --verbose https://hls.gaia.com/hls/168331/master.m3u8?expiration=1529452800&token=c3a6b7becc2a6f9c59218fb9b82c031777d119acd3c298a2add724225aa2273f
[1] 98997
miccitants-MacBook-Pro:~ micci$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://hls.gaia.com/hls/168331/master.m3u8?expiration=1529452800']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.3, avprobe 12.3, ffmpeg 4.0.1, ffprobe 4.0.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] master: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://hls.gaia.com/hls/168331/master.m3u8?expiration=1529452800: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 579, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[1]+ Exit 1 /usr/bin/python $(which youtube-dl) --verbose https://hls.gaia.com/hls/168331/master.m3u8?expiration=1529452800
miccitants-MacBook-Pro:~ micci$

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I have a gaia.com account and it is not possible to dl a video with youtube-dl. i tried with various settings and tricks from issues and documentation, but no success. i can provide user and pw if needed to put gaia.com on the list.

[remitamine]

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#video-url-contains-an-ampersand-and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command