Unknown type url type ... downloading from CeskaTelevize

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Cannot download video from the web of Česká Televize (Czech TV).

https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10116288835-z-metropole/218411058230029/

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 ```):

matej@mitmanek: ~$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10116288835-z-metropole/218411058230029/
[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10116288835-z-metropole/218411058230029/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.07.21
[debug] Python version 3.4.8 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.5.1804-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.15, ffprobe 2.8.15, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CeskaTelevizePorady] 218411058230029: Downloading webpage
[CeskaTelevize] iFramePlayer.php: Downloading webpage
[CeskaTelevize] iFramePlayer.php: Downloading JSON metadata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2018.7.21', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 471, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 461, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2000, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 802, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 863, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 791, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/ceskatelevize.py", line 130, in _real_extract
    req = sanitized_Request(compat_urllib_parse_unquote(playlist_url))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 560, in sanitized_Request
    return compat_urllib_request.Request(sanitize_url(url), *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 267, in __init__
    self.full_url = url
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 293, in full_url
    self._parse()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 322, in _parse
    raise ValueError("unknown url type: %r" % self.full_url)
ValueError: unknown url type: 'Error'
matej@mitmanek: ~$

[mcepl]

@dstftw duplicate of what? It would make a way more sense, if you said which issue this is supposed to be duplicate of. Please?

[mcepl]

This is duplicate of #16997 (which includes WIP patch for the problem).

[borhub]

Related PR: #16999

[mcepl]

This is now applied to youtube-dl-2018.07.21-2 on Fedora/EPEL, but still we don't have solution for the broken digital certificate.