Site Support Request: Cook's Country (by America's Test Kitchen)

[samantonioli]

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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://www.cookscountry.com/episode/564-when-only-chocolate-will-do
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.cookscountry.com/episode/564-when-only-chocolate-will-do']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.04
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-17134-Microsoft-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 564-when-only-chocolate-will-do: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 564-when-only-chocolate-will-do: Downloading webpage
[generic] 564-when-only-chocolate-will-do: Extracting information
[Kaltura] 1_h3hjom15: Downloading video info JSON
[Kaltura] 1_h3hjom15: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/p/1445801/sp/144580100/playManifest/entryId/1_h3hjom15/format/url/protocol/http/flavorId/1_t8fvcz1n?referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY29va3Njb3VudHJ5LmNvbQ=='
[download] Destination: CCTV1012-When-Only-Chocolate-Will-Do-WEB.mp4-1_h3hjom15.mp4
[download]  10.5% of 4.05GiB at 15.21MiB/s ETA 04:04

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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):

• Full episode: https://www.cookscountry.com/episode/564-when-only-chocolate-will-do
• Single recipe video: https://www.cookscountry.com/videos/3685-fluffy-baked-polenta-with-red-sauce

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

Cook's Country is a spinoff site that is extremely closely related to America's Test Kitchen. There is already support for America's Test Kitchen within youtube-dl, and due to the sites being extremely similar, I assume that adding support for Cook's Country shouldn't be too difficult. I tried myself but I am not versed enough in Python to understand completely how to do it. Honestly I bet that someone more familiar with Python and the way youtube-dl scripts work could crank this out in under a half hour by using the americastestkitchen.py extractor as a template.

[sayem314]

This site works fine for me.

https://pastecode.xyz/view/49c4b644
https://pastecode.xyz/view/a5cd8337

[bleedscarlet]

In the past you could simply change cookscountry.com to americastestkitchen.com (keeping the trailing part of the URL) and it will work just fine. There seems to be a current issue however preventing both sites from functioning. You can verify this by going to the website and just changing cookscountry to americastestkitchen and see that it brings you to the same episode with a different "skin"