Feature request: ability to download http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/losing-iraq/

[ghost]

Hi there,

It seems there is a jwplayer on this page so youtube-dl could support it?

Attaching the full output of what happens currently:

$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/losing-iraq/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/losing-iraq/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.07.30
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PBS] losing-iraq: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract player URL; 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/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 170, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pbs.py", line 44, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'player URL')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 391, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract player URL; 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.

[dstftw]

Thanks for the report, fixed. Frontline videos will be supported in the next version of youtube-dl.

[ghost]

Fantastic, thank you!

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. Support for frontline videos has been added in youtube-dl 2014.08.22. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.