Site Support Request -- https://www.thirteen.org/

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Could you please add site support for https://www.thirteen.org/? It is a part of the PBS network.

Example URLs are ...

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/scott-bailey/season-1-episode-1-bnefxg/

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/poldark-masterpiece/episode-1-ohas5n/

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/jamestown/episode-1-xpsgwx/

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/thirteen-specials/brewed-in-brooklyn-i62791/

[nlevitt]

+1

$ youtube-dl --verbose 'https://www.thirteen.org/programs/america-reframed/detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee/'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.thirteen.org/programs/america-reframed/detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.05.20
[debug] Python version 3.6.8 (CPython) - FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-64bit-ELF
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee: Downloading webpage
[generic] detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/america-reframed/detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 529, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3329, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/america-reframed/detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee/

There seems to be a standard PBS video streaming system. I found this video on two other PBS station websites, and they all look similar, and all result in the same error with youtube-dl. It'd be nice if one effort led to support all of these kinds of sites.

https://www.pbssocal.org/programs/america-reframed/detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee/
https://www.wliw.org/programs/america-reframed/detroit-48202-conversations-along-a-postal-route-tzx2ee/