Support request for tvopen.gr

[Hackerpcs]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2018.11.03. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.11.03

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• 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?

• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)

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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:

youtube-dl -v "https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/season/01/episode/0003"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--fixup', 'warn', '--convert-subs', 'srt', '--all-subs', '--embed-subs', '--write-info-json', '--merge-output-format', 'mkv']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/season/01/episode/0003']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs mbcs, out cp1253, pref cp1253
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.03
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-92356-g89a0d33e3a, ffprobe N-92356-g89a0d33e3a, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 0003: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 0003: Downloading webpage
[generic] 0003: Extracting information
WARNING: [generic] 0003: Failed to parse JSON Invalid control character at: line 4 column 28 (char 86)
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/season/01/episode/0003
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpxh4iffn2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpxh4iffn2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 508, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpxh4iffn2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3298, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/season/01/episode/0003

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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):

• Single video: https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/season/01/episode/0001
• Single video: https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/season/01/episode/0003
• Playlist: https://www.tvopen.gr/seires/oy-foneyseis/videos

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Web TV site of new Greek TV station Open Beyond

[Vangelis66]

... You can always sniff the master HLS playlist URI for the episode, using your browser's dev tools (WebConsole), and feed that to yt-dl; you must also include the Referer Request Header, else you'll get a 403 from the media server; yes, it involves some manual labour, but gets the programme to disk (in 720p):

youtube-dl --console-title --hls-prefer-native -c --no-part --referer "https://www.tvopen.gr/" "https://epsilonvod.akamaized.net/hls/p/2299551/sp/229955100/serveFlavor/entryId/1_e6r88w9o/v/1/ev/4/flavorId/1_vyj658qq/name/a.mp4/index.m3u8" -o "OpenBeyondTV_Oy-foneyseis_Se1Ep3.mp4"

[generic] index: Requesting header
[generic] index: Downloading m3u8 information
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 261
[download] Destination: OpenBeyondTV_Oy-foneyseis_Se1Ep3.mp4
[download]  16.5% of ~468.65MiB at  1.17MiB/s ETA 04:19

PS: Tested from within Greece, unsure whether any geo-fence is implemented for non-Greek IPs...

[Hackerpcs]

Thanks (similar download speed to me heh), I know that and I made a little script to automate it (also deletes the nonsense metadata that are annoying on players)
https://pastebin.com/wafw7FqJ
but that's why youtube-dl is for, to automate things :)