Unsupported URL: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/

[jillh510]

python -m youtube_dl -v --skip-download --write-info-json --no-playlist -f mp4 http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--skip-download', '--write-info-json', '--no-playlist', '-f', 'mp4', 'http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.04.01.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained: Downloading webpage
[generic] red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/; 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 "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 379, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1315, in parse_xml
return xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 28, column 380
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 511, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 161, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/Users/jill/june/.virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 612, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/; 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.

[zhaphod]

I debugged it a little bit and found the following issues with the URL:
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/

There is no extractor available for "motorsport.com" like it is available for many of the other websites. See for eg: extractor/funnyordie.py. Hence it falls back to the generic extractor which cannot parse this URL correctly and throws the error. Furthermore "motorsport.com" uses "swf" files for video. So, even if one writes a motorsport.py to handle the URL, it will still not work as downloading "swf" file is not supported.

Until support for "motorsport.com" and "swf" format is provided it is best to report the error as mentioned in the issue like """ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/red-bull-racing-2014-rules-explained/; 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.""" and then not throw the exception and exit gracefully.

What this means for you is that you wont be able to download videos from motorsport.com until support is enabled.

[phihag]

@zhaphod Thank you for your comment, but that much is right in the error message (that's what Unsupported URL means), plus the output already contains

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.

[phihag]

youtube-dl version 2014.04.04 adds support for motorsport.com.

@jillh510 It looks like you used pip to install youtube-dl. pip install -U youtube-dl should suffice to update to the newest version