HGTV - Unsupported URL

[nerdily]

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It appears the URL scheme that hgtv uses for its various shows has changed. From what I can tell in hgtv.py it's expecting hgtv.com/shows/.... whereas now it's watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/....

I have log in information available as the example video is behind the cable subscriber log in.

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youtube-dl 'https://watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/house-hunters-international/full-episodes/home-base-in-belgium' -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/house-hunters-international/full-episodes/home-base-in-belgium', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.12.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4, ffprobe 3.2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] home-base-in-belgium: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] home-base-in-belgium: Downloading webpage
[generic] home-base-in-belgium: Extracting information
NOT TEACHABLE
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/house-hunters-international/full-episodes/home-base-in-belgium
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2340, 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 1, column 72
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, 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 3323, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/house-hunters-international/full-episodes/home-base-in-belgium

[nerdily]

Let me know how I can provide login details if needed

[nerdily]

Yeah realized it looks like #17959 fixes it. Just trying to figure out how to test it. (New to all this)