metacafe and cbs support

[menachemshapiro]

A recent commit added support for CBS videos in metacafe: b9a2c53

Does this make it easy to add support for vidoes directly on the CBS website?

Here is an example of a video that works on metacafe and doesn't work on the CBS website (I couldn't find a file on CBS.com that works out of the US):

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youtube-dl -v http://www.cbs.com/shows/garth-brooks/video/_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_/connect-chat-feat-garth-brooks/
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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.cbs.com/shows/garth-brooks/video/_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_/connect-chat-feat-garth-brooks/']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.1+ - Linux-2.6.38-16-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-11.04-natty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] : Downloading webpage
[generic] : Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.cbs.com/shows/garth-brooks/video/_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_/connect-chat-feat-garth-brooks/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 471, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 134, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 254, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.cbs.com/shows/garth-brooks/video/_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_/connect-chat-feat-garth-brooks/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
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Here's the same video on metacafe:

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youtube-dl -v http://www.metacafe.com/watch/cb-4JUVEwq3wUT7/connect_chat_feat_garth_brooks/
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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.metacafe.com/watch/cb-4JUVEwq3wUT7/connect_chat_feat_garth_brooks/']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.1+ - Linux-2.6.38-16-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-11.04-natty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[metacafe] Retrieving disclaimer
[metacafe] Confirming age
[ThePlatform] 4JUVEwq3wUT7: Downloading XML
[ThePlatform] 4JUVEwq3wUT7: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Connect Chat feat. Garth Brooks-4JUVEwq3wUT7.flv
[debug] rtmpdump command line: rtmpdump --verbose -r 'rtmp://cp48590.edgefcs.net/ondemand/?auth=daEdmaKbAdacOayaIarczaxc0a4c_bYdMbn-bsRExS-h0-G9CNiXjf&aifp=v001&slist=video/temp_hd_gallery_video/CBS_Production_Outlet_VMS/video_robot/CBS_Production_Entertainment/2013/11/27/74862147773/' -o 'Connect Chat feat. Garth Brooks-4JUVEwq3wUT7.flv.part' --playpath mp4:video/temp_hd_gallery_video/CBS_Production_Outlet_VMS/video_robot/CBS_Production_Entertainment/2013/11/27/74862147773/112713_GBrooks_1296.mp4 --resume --skip 1
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
[rtmpdump] (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 0
....
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[phihag]

Thanks for the report. Support for CBS (using the same infrastructure) has been added as of youtube-dl 2013.12.16.