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[jaimeMF]

Please post an example url.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. Support for cnet.com has been added in youtube-dl v2014.04.03.2. Type youtube-dl -U to update.

[zenaan]

cnet.com currently not working, ISTM:

$ youtube-dl 'http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-un50hu8550/2/' -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-un50hu8550/2/', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.03.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.0
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 2: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 2: Downloading webpage
[generic] 2: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-un50hu8550/2/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 825, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1528, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 28, column 570
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 651, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 275, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1313, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-un50hu8550/2/

[zenaan]

Can't see a button to reopen an issue - are we supposed to create a new issue, or just comment on an issue like this? What about changing the subject, eg, in this case, to say "cnet.com site support request"?

debian.org website provides for logged in users to do these types of janitorial tasks, but I can't see how to do those two tasks here.

[jaimeMF]

@zenaan open a new issue. We currently only support urls like http://www.cnet.com/videos/hands-on-with-microsofts-windows-8-1-update/.