Please add support for www.mdr.de

[htgoebel]

$ youtube-dl --version
2014.04.19
$ youtube-dl http://www.mdr.de/fakt/video189002.html --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.mdr.de/fakt/video189002.html', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.04.19
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.10...
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] video189002: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] video189002: Downloading webpage
[generic] video189002: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.mdr.de/fakt/video189002.html; [...]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/.../lib/python/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 390, in _real_extract
    doc = parse_xml(webpage)
  File "/home/.../lib/python/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1377, in parse_xml
    return xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 85, column 226
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/.../lib/python/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 514, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/.../lib/python/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 161, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/.../lib/python/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 630, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.mdr.de/fakt/video189002.html; ...

[htgoebel]

The CSS-Path to the Script-Element loading the video is as follows (wrapped to be easier to read):

html body#video189002Body.node-fakt div#body-wrapper div#wrapperBody
div#globalCol div#content div#spalten-wrapper div#spalten-wrapper2
div#spalten-wrapper3 div#content-wrapper
div#inhalt-funktion div#inhalt div.objektdetail div.avStage script

The script is referencing to http://www.mdr.de/fakt/video189002-avCustom.xml. Within this XML-file, the video-informations can be found on xpath //assets/assets and the download-urls at xpath //assets/assets/progressiveDownloadUrl.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. Support for the new MDR URLs has been added in youtube-dl 2014.04.21.1. You can type youtube-dl -U to update.

[htgoebel]

Wow, thanks for implementing this so quickly :-)