Please add support for Today.com

[anovicecodemonkey]

There are two URL patterns:

http://www.today.com/video/today/55157190/ (video on its own - with them the generic extractor kicks in and does download a file but it is unplayable, with no extension. In the example below the file is Costas - Michael Sam ‘will be judged on his play’ - Video on TODAY.com-launch=55157190&autoplay=true&omid=facebook.unknown_video)

http://www.today.com/news/todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834 (video embedded in a news story on the site)

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.today.com/video/today/55157190/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.today.com/video/today/55157190/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.0 - Linux-3.14.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 55157190: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 55157190: Downloading webpage
[generic] 55157190: Extracting information
[download] Destination: Costas - Michael Sam ‘will be judged on his play’ - Video on TODAY.com-launch=55157190&autoplay=true&omid=facebook.unknown_video
[download] 100% of 752.25KiB in 00:04

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.today.com/news/todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.today.com/news/todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.0 - Linux-3.14.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834: Downloading webpage
[generic] todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.today.com/news/todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834; 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 "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 161, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 687, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.today.com/news/todays-takeaway-costas-weighs-michael-sam-draft-al-reports-re-2D79656834; 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.