Won't download video at tinypic.com

[theHedster]

I have the 2014.02.17 version of youtube-dl installed from a .deb package, but it won't download the streaming video at http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2zprwvt&s=6#.VDIRQyXNW2c. I searched for tinypic and found this term embedded in the Python code, but not being a developer couldn't understand what it meant. I assume yt-dl is supposed to be able to handle tinypic. Below is the contents of the --verbose option.

Regards,
Hedley

hfinger@Hedley-PC:~$ youtube-dl --verbose http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2zprwvt&s=6#.VDIRQyXNW2c &> ~/deb-webber-failed-video-download-log.text [1] 15770 hfinger@Hedley-PC:~$ [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2zprwvt'] [debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8' [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.17 [debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-36-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] player: Requesting header [redirect] Following redirect to http://tinypic.com/videos.php [generic] videos: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] videos: Downloading webpage [generic] videos: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://tinypic.com/videos.php; 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/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 158, in extract return self._real_extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 380, in _real_extract raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url) ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://tinypic.com/videos.php; 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.

[1]+ Exit 1 youtube-dl --verbose
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2zprwvt
hfinger@Hedley-PC:$ youtube-dl -U
It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or
a tarball. Please use that to update.
hfinger@Hedley-PC:$ youtube-dl --version
2014.02.17

[naglis]

Yes, support for tinypic has been added on 02.03, so it should work with your version. However, for it to work, you'll need to enclose the URL in quotes:

youtube-dl 'http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2zprwvt&s=6#.VDIRQyXNW2c'

because if you don't, the ampersand (&) symbol is intercepted by bash and the URL get's cut off.

Also, you seem to be running an outdated version of youtube-dl. I would encourage you to update to a newer version.