[NBCNews] Broken IE - doesn't work for show clips

[anovicecodemonkey]

For show clips it's falling back to the generic extractor. Looks like they use "The Platform.com" for the videos on these parts of the site, though ThePlatformIE doesn't even work when given the URL directly. The pattern must be wrong.

Example URL: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721

OR

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366

It's the same video but a different link format

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.0 - Linux-3.14.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721: Downloading webpage
[generic] pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721; 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.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-with-glenn-greenwald-259423811721; 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.

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.0 - Linux-3.14.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366: Downloading webpage
[generic] pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366; 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.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/pete-williams-extended-interview-glenn-greenwald-n108366; 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.

When supplying The Platform URL directly:

$ youtube-dl -v  http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/NBCNewsIE8?guid=x_dc_mtp_greenwaldfull_140518
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/NBCNewsIE8?guid=x_dc_mtp_greenwaldfull_140518']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.0 - Linux-3.14.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ThePlatform] NBCNewsIE8: Downloading XML
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; 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.
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 194, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1214, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 461, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 574, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 499, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
``

[remitamine]

will be fixed in the next version,