youtube-dl should support Yahoo Movies

[nickv2002]

youtube-dl should support Yahoo Movies. Right now it just seems to extract a generic SWF player object instead of the video.

Here's an example:

$ youtube-dl -v https://movies.yahoo.com/video/batman-beyond-short-film-192211473.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://movies.yahoo.com/video/batman-beyond-short-film-192211473.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.04.04.7
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-13.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] batman-beyond-short-film-192211473: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] batman-beyond-short-film-192211473: Downloading webpage
[generic] batman-beyond-short-film-192211473: Extracting information
[download] Destination: 'Darwyn Cooke's Batman Beyond' _ Watch the video - Yahoo Movies-player.swf
[download] 100% of 326.26KiB in 00:00

Is this something that could be added to youtube-dl? (Rumor has it that they're trying to scale up their video site to compete with YouTube so it would be a good feature to have in the future too.)

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. youtube-dl version 2014.04.21.1 and newer add support for yahoo movies as well. Type youtube-dl -U to update.