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Newer AOL video URLs are not downloading #26650

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RealDeviil opened this issue Sep 21, 2020 · 0 comments
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Newer AOL video URLs are not downloading #26650

RealDeviil opened this issue Sep 21, 2020 · 0 comments

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Checklist

  • I'm reporting a broken site support
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
  • 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

root@vmi298562:~# python3 /usr/bin/youtube-dl -v --write-pages https://www.aol.com/video/play/169771b0-ac01-11ea-8f67-3f1d2b003987/a1401091-5bd7-3d8f-9067-5372c20b2763/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--write-pages', 'https://www.aol.com/video/play/169771b0-ac01-11ea-8f67-3f1d2b003987/a1401091-5bd7-3d8f-9067-5372c20b2763/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.5.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-11-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.13
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.4-static
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[aol.com] a1401091: Downloading JSON metadata
[aol.com] Saving request to a1401091_https_-_feedapi.b2c.on.aol.com_v1.0_app_videos_aolon_a1401091_details.dump
ERROR: aol.com said: Not found - id
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/aol.py", line 88, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, response['statusText']), expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: aol.com said: Not found - id

root@vmi298562:~#

Description

The newer AOL video URL formats (as in my log output) are not working. This kind of AOL URL is "not" included in the AOL extractor tests.

Older URL formats are still working. E.g., a comparable URL for the above "non-working" video URL is https://www.aol.com/video/playlist/PL5616/5f6501b96f94b92ebdd3f68f/ . This kind of URL can still be downloaded, but this URL format is no longer actively used on the AOL site.

I've done some digging around, and it seems that the source code for the different URL formats is different. I tried to identify clues for downloading videos from the new URL format. I searched the page source JSON, but I could find no obvious video information. I'm guessing that the video info is embedded in an external JS script?

Hope you guys can fix this! Thanks!

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