gorails.com / Generic extractor for wistia.com

[padde]

It would be great if the Gorails.com screencast website would be supported. It seems to use http://wistia.com/ to host their videos.

Example URL:

https://gorails.com/episodes/environment-variables

Debug output:

youtube-dl https://gorails.com/episodes/environment-variables --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://gorails.com/episodes/environment-variables', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.07.20.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] environment-variables: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] environment-variables: Downloading webpage
[generic] environment-variables: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://gorails.com/episodes/environment-variables; 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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 456, in _real_extract
    doc = parse_xml(webpage)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1411, 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: not well-formed (invalid token): line 47, column 432
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 168, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 751, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: https://gorails.com/episodes/environment-variables; 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.

[naglis]

Generic support for embedded wistia videos has been added in version 2014.09.28 and it should work for the provided website/URL. Type youtube-dl -U to update. I am closing this now, if you experience any issues related to this, please comment here or feel free to open a new issue. Thank you for your report.