video_id only from webpage

[ghost]

Hi,

I'm writing extractor plugin for czech tv.

I can get video_id only from loaded webpage, but _download_webpage requires video_id to work.

Can i make up some id or is there better way to solve this? Thanks

[ghost]

In common.py i see that video_id can be None

[phihag]

Please don't set the video id to None for video-specific downloads, None is intended to be used for extractor initialization (for example login or age confirmation). The video id can be anything and should be extracted from the URL.

[ghost]

Thanks @phihag . But i run into another problems with encoding

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2013' in position 9: character maps to <undefined>

If i use replace('\u2013', '-'), it works, but there are other errors with different chars 2026 etc...

[phihag]

@pulpe Can you give out the whole stacktrace? Pass in -v to see it if you aren't already.

[ghost]

@phihag Here is my extractor https://gist.github.com/pulpe/7959701

>python __main__.py http://play.iprima.cz/particka/particka-1012-gena -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://play.iprima.cz/particka/particka-1012-gena','-v']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Python version 3.3.3 - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[IPrima] particka-1012-gena: Downloading webpage
[IPrima] particka-1012-gena: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 723, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 713, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 877, in download
    self.extract_info(url)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 487, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 514, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 703, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 848, in process_info
    success = self.fd._do_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\FileDownloader.py", line 523, in _do_download
    info_dict.get('rtmp_conn', None))
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\FileDownloader.py", line 352, in _download_with_rtmpdump
    self.report_destination(filename)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\FileDownloader.py", line 205, in report_destination
    self.to_screen(u'[download] Destination: ' + filename)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\FileDownloader.py", line 132, in to_screen
    self.ydl.to_screen(*args, **kargs)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 247, in to_screen
    return self.to_stdout(message, skip_eol, check_quiet=True)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 258, in to_stdout
    write_string(output, self._screen_file)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\pulpe\Dokumenty\Projekty\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 852, in write_string
    out.write(s)
  File "C:\Python33\lib\encodings\cp852.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2013' in position 33: character maps to <undefined>

[ghost]

Tried google and found this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode