Support for videos at theguardian.com? (The Guardian newspaper)

[Strolls]

Hi there,

I tried youtube-dl to see if it would download the video I was watching at theguardian.com (the website of The Guardian newspaper) and it told me to file a bug. So I am.

I'd be grateful if you'd consider supporting this site, if you're able.

$ youtube-dl --verbose 'http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2014/jan/28/musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2014/jan/28/musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'utf-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video: Downloading webpage
[generic] musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2014/jan/28/musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video; 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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 155, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 346, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2014/jan/28/musketeers-death-paradise-mr-selfridge-tv-review-video; 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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[anovicecodemonkey]

Hi there!

Funny. I searched not long ago to see if anybody had requested the site and didn't find anything. I went ahead and added support anyway, prior to just finding this request. See pull request #2271.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. Support for Guardian and similar webpages has been added to our generic extractor in youtube-dl 2014.01.30.1. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.