Problem with 3Sat Mediathek

[novamcgurk]

I got this error, while trying to download a file from the 3Sat Mediathek.

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?mode=play: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?mode=play: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play; 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]

Hi, novamcgurk,
the URL you used (http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play) is missing the ID of the video, which is required for youtube-dl to know which video you want to download. 3sat.de videos usually have an URL in format http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=<id>, where <id> is the ID of the requested video. So, please, check your URL.

Also, next time you report a bug, be sure to post the full output of youtube-dl, using the --verbose flag, it helps a lot.

[novamcgurk]

Ok, sorry i used this URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=45208
but the error message just showed it until the ...play part.

This is the full error message with the --verbose flag.

usermbpr:~ User$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=45208
[1] 9777
usermbpr:~ User$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ?mode=play: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?mode=play: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?mode=play: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play; 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 457, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1420, 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: undefined entity  : line 68, column 82
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/generic.py", line 752, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play; 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]

Thanks for the clarification. The ampersand (&) has a special meaning in Bash, so you should enclose the URL in quotation marks to escape it, and it should work:

youtube-dl "http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=45208"

Without the quotes, the ampersand is interpreted by Bash as a control operator, that's why the URL got cut off.

[novamcgurk]

Ah....works like a charm, thanks a lot.