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Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of youtube-dl:
First of, make sure you are using the latest version of youtube-dl. Run
youtube-dl --versionand ensure your version is 2019.10.22. If it's not, see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Issues with outdated version will be REJECTED.Make sure that all provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser.
Make sure that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped as explained in http://yt-dl.org/escape.
Search the bugtracker for similar issues: http://yt-dl.org/search-issues. DO NOT post duplicates.
Finally, put x into all relevant boxes (like this [x])
[X ] I'm reporting a broken site support
[X ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.10.22
[ X] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
[ ]C I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
[ X] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
Verbose log
youtube-dl -vvv "https://www.geo.tv/latest/252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-vvv', u'https://www.geo.tv/latest/252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.10.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Linux-5.0.0-29-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-19.04-disco
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir: Downloading webpage
[generic] 252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.geo.tv/latest/252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2372, in _real_extract
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2551, 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 2540, 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: not well-formed (invalid token): line 127, column 66
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3353, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.geo.tv/latest/252346-video-exposes-dirty-face-of-modis-bjp-in-occupied-kashmir
Description
Video is not downloaded.