Site support request - tv.vera.com.uy

[thepante]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2019.01.16
• 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?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

➜ youtube-dl -v http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38565
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38565']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-10-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.10-cosmic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2-2, ffprobe 4.0.2-2, phantomjs 5, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 38565: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 38565: Downloading webpage
[generic] 38565: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38565
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pante/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2337, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/home/pante/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2542, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/home/pante/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2531, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1659, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1523, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 96, column 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pante/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/pante/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/pante/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3320, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38565

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• Single video: http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38565
• Shorter single video: http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38435
• Playlist: http://tv.vera.com.uy/series/101/949

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• Single video on its second domain: http://veramas.com.uy/veramas/vod/38586/949
• Playlist on its second domain: http://veramas.com.uy/veramas/serie/949

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

I tried to do it by myself but I have little/no-deep python knowledge, so ended up being realistic...

The site is tv.vera.com.uy - but has a second domain, veramas.com.uy - It's the same portal, some of their videos are accessible by the two domains, other videos are not and available on only one (that's why I put those two domains).

The site is the author of the content or/its authorized to show it. It's legal, state service.

[thepante]

I keep trying, I'm stuck with this: gist - vera.py
I test directly, check:

youtube-dl  vera  
➜ python -m youtube_dl http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38478 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38478', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.16
[debug] Git HEAD: bfc8eeea5
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-10-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.10-cosmic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2-2, ffprobe 4.0.2-2, phantomjs 5, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Vera] 38478: Downloading webpage
===========
http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38478
Trailer 4
"Todos detrás de Momo", una serie del Programa SeriesUy. Mirala por vera+, TNU y TV Ciudad.
mp4
38478
===========
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/38478'
[download] Destination: Trailer 4-38478.mp4
[download] 100% of 40.02KiB in 00:00

As you can see, the result is saved as Trailer 4-38478.mp4, which its the HTML of that url in a pseudo mp4 file.

How I can get the video (m3u8) saved as mp4/mkv/whatever?

How can I extract it? I can see the m3u8 file inside an <iframe> with id iframePlayerContent, then inside of that, in javascript, the function embedPlayer → source → hls

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In video page HTML, there is:

buildPlayer = function(){
  $("#player_content").html('').append('<iframe class="iframeclass content-watch" id="iframePlayerContent" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>');
  $('#iframePlayerContent').attr('src', 'http://tv.vera.com.uy/syndication/index.php/sindicacion/play/ANTEL-PLAYER/38478?extras=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');
}

Then inside that src there, you find this ↓

function embedPlayer(){
  var conf = {
  "key":"a488d68f-aedf-4be7-b687-23403ecb4520",
  "playback":{"autoplay": true,"muted": false},
  "style": {"ux":true,"width": "100%","height": "100%"},
  "source":{"hls": "http://vxvod3.cdn.antel.net.uy/auth_38478,vxttoken=cGF0aFVSST0lMkZhdXRoXzM4NDc4JTJGdnhmbXQlM0RobHMlMkYlMkEmZXhwaXJ5PTE1NDkwMDg0OTUmcmFuZG9tPXU3a0NmVFIzcXgmYy1pcD0xNjcuNTcuNzAuNDMsYzk2YTY3ZjMxYmNjMjc1M2E3YTE0Zjc0MmM5OWZkZDc0NzBhNWM5NDhlMDYzNzQ2OWExNGE0MzkwNDNkMWUxMg==/vxfmt=hls/playlist.m3u8",
    "tracks": [{"file":"http://veratvimgs.cdn.antel.net.uy/dynamic/content_images/38478/96/preview_thumbs.vtt","kind":"thumbnails"}]
  }
};
				

So how I continue with this? I have no clue

[thepante]

I finally could. In a way I think is really gross(?, but it does work: gist
How can I clean it? I know there is redundant code.

As can see there, it does this:

1. First get the URL and download it
2. Convert it to plain HTML
3. Search for links that does have specific word that I saw there for the iframe
4. It loads that second URL
5. Searches for ".m3u8" link inside that second loaded page (iframe)
6. Assign that source to video_url

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This is supporting two domains from the same service, but the secondary domain has different html so I have to do some sort of ifs that I'm not sure how to do, but, I'll see...

Suggestions?

^{I'm talking alone, I don't care have a nice day xD}