This Old House changed URLs again

[sjthespian]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

> youtube-dl -v https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21113884/s41-e13-paradise-lost
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21113884/s41-e13-paradise-lost']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
[debug] Python version 3.7.2 (CPython) - Darwin-18.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1, ffprobe 4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] s41-e13-paradise-lost: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] s41-e13-paradise-lost: Downloading webpage
[generic] s41-e13-paradise-lost: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21113884/s41-e13-paradise-lost
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 3350, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21113884/s41-e13-paradise-lost

Description

This Old House has changed their URLs again, I'm assuming this will require a change similar to the one in issue #11271. I haven't had a chance to dig into the code yet to see if it's that simple of a change. However from a look at a couple of URLs, it looks like the newer urls are now in the format of https://www.thisoldhouse.com/<serial_number>/s-e-<episode_title> (at least for This Old House and Ask This Old House). However, looking at older episodes, I'm seeing urls like https://www.thisoldhouse.com/<subseries_title>/<serial_number>/<episode_title>

Examples:

• https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21113884/s41-e13-paradise-lost
• https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21067015/pining-for-old-pine-the-westerly-project
• https://www.thisoldhouse.com/charleston-houses/21053714/rainbow-row-the-charleston-houses-2018

[monty124]

Hi there,
This has fixed new links and broken the old links.
new sxx-exx links work
e.g. these work
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21133625/s41-e15-no-pain-no-gain
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21133650/s18-e15-indoor-garden-fireplace-hearth
but for example links like
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21083431/seaside-transformation-the-westerly-project
and
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/season-18-ask-toh/21083433/ceiling-light-tool-storage-ask-toh
do not work

>youtube-dl.exe --get-id https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21083431/seaside-transformation-the-westerly-project -v [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--get-id', 'https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21083431/seaside-transformation-the-westerly-project', '-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.02.16 [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2019-10-31-b414cff, ffprobe git-2019-10-31-b414cff [debug] Proxy map: {} ERROR: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpuz77jgzq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpuz77jgzq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpuz77jgzq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\thisoldhouse.py", line 42, in _real_extract File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpuz77jgzq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1005, in _search_regex youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

like the original issue, there are a bunch of different links from their site now..

[dmwyatt]

Yeah @remitamine, I can confirm @monty124's report.

[jsmith1299]

Issue still exists...why was issue closed?