Support "rental" type videos (was: ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname)

[joshtriplett]

I attempted to download bnAsVApebL8, and got the error "ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname".

[jcarlosgarciasegovia]

Yes, it gives a bogus error message. But, it seems paid videos are not supported anyway.

[joshtriplett]

That isn't a paid video, and all the other videos from the same uploader seem to work just fine; I don't see anything special about that video that should make it not work.

[FiloSottile]

I get:

ERROR: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Trying to get around that to see if I can reproduce your error.

[FiloSottile]

Hm. YouTube calls that a rental...

[joshtriplett]

Hm. YouTube calls that a rental...

Most definitely not a rental. Just a normal video.

[FiloSottile]

Launched a AWS EC2 instance to have a look from US.

Actually, there is a "Purchase" button, for something like buying other 40 seconds.
That makes the implementation different, probably possible, but I don't believe that so much effort is justified for such a rare occasion... Are these videos common?

[joshtriplett]

Huh. I don't recall seeing that button when I last checked that video; strange. In any case, if this video really does work like other YouTube rentals, then I certainly understand youtube-dl not supporting it.

[FiloSottile]

I'm adding a meaningful error message. I suggest to change the title of the bug to reflect the "rental" videos issue/feature request. Pull requests are welcome, obviously.

For future reference (it is not easy to check that outside of US) here are a log of a youtube-dl run with an added print video_info and a couple of screenshots (one with flash, one full page).

filosottile@filosottile-ubuntu:~/youtube-dl$ ./youtube-dl bnAsVApebL8
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] bnAsVApebL8: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] bnAsVApebL8: Downloading video info webpage
{'status': ['ok'], 'ypc_module': ['http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swfbin/ypc-vflVqsQ6i.swf'], 'ypc_vid': ['bnAsVApebL8'], 'video_id': ['bnAsVApebL8'], 'vq': ['auto'], 'token': ['1'], 'partnerid': ['34'], 'ypc_video_rental_bar_text': ['Full video available for rent']}
ERROR: "rental" videos not supported

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/4uiwF

[temp1122]

I have found a workaround: use -i option with youtube-dl to ignore warnings and errors and continue.
youtube-dl -i "Your Dailymotion URL"

[bengan]

I'm not sure it's the same as my issue #577. I've tried the option -i but to no avail. This might be my problem. http://userscripts.org/topics/119574

[phihag]

-i will definitely not help, and the userscripts discussion is not relevant to us, since we support rtmpdump.

[bengan]

Well. Relevant to me because if I knew about it I would never have issued an issue. So my issue might may be related to this issue then, #343
Anyway, thanks for taking your time with this.

[bkuhl]

I'm currently able to view the video in my browser as I have actually purchased the video. Would that make it any easier to pursue downloading the video?

[ealgase]

Do the devs intend to support this in the future?

[The-Compiler]

@ealgase I guess if they didn't, this issue wouldn't be open anymore. @FiloSottile also said "Pull requests are welcome, obviously." above 😉