ABC iView Unsupported URL *UPDATE* (Can be deleted)

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2018.11.07. 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 Issues with outdated version will be rejected.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 2018.11.07

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

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• 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 -v "https://iview.abc.net.au/show/spicks-and-specks-reunion-special"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://iview.abc.net.au/show/spicks-and-specks-reunion-special']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-92374-gd96ae9d5ea-tessus, ffprobe N-92374-gd96ae9d5ea-tessus
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] spicks-and-specks-reunion-special: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] spicks-and-specks-reunion-special: Downloading webpage
[generic] spicks-and-specks-reunion-special: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/spicks-and-specks-reunion-special
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2324, 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 6, column 634
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 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3298, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/spicks-and-specks-reunion-special
...
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

The link "https://iview.abc.net.au/show/spicks-and-specks-reunion-special" doesn't work on Youtube-DL, i got the link from ABC iView > Share > Copy Link, and it still has an error?

How can i get the direct link?

UPDATE

After looking at the page source and searching for "Video" it gave me the direct link "https://iview.abc.net.au/video/LE1802V001S00" this link doesn't work in a browser but downloads and works in youtube-dl.

[remitamine]

Duplicate of #16868.