Twitch URL collects 0 video IDs and thus fails

[mcymo]

Hi,

firstly I want to thank you for the program, it has brought me a lot of joy. I don't only want to write "complaints" leaving out that 99.9% of the time all this is awesome.

So, youtube-dl seems to not collect video IDs from twitch.tv anymore, I can't really tell when this started because I haven't downloaded from there in a while, but not more than two months and very likely it's a rather recent development. The URLs I tried to download are from this address:

http://www.twitch.tv/gsl/profile/past_broadcasts

So usually I copy paste into a list and then youtube-dl gets it, not this time, so let's see if other have that problem, too. I use
Kubuntu Linux Kernel 3.13.0-37-generic
KDE Verison: 4.13.3

To conclude best regards to the whole team

mcymo

START READING HERE FOR INPUT AND OUTPUT

INPUT

youtube -dl --verbose http://www.twitch.tv/gsl/b/574745064

OUTPUT

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.twitch.tv/gsl/b/574745064']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-37-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Twitch] 574745064: Downloading video info JSON
[Twitch] 574745064: Downloading video playlist JSON
[download] Downloading playlist: Code S Grand Finals Set 3, 2014 GSL Season 3.mp4
[Twitch] playlist Code S Grand Finals Set 3, 2014 GSL Season 3.mp4: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)

[dstftw]

That's because this video requires paid subscription according to twitch player. So we'll need at least to implement authentication with twitch credentials.

[mcymo]

Oh,

I'm sorry, that's a new thing. Up until now the videos were gratis. I don't
use flash, so players don't load in my browser.

Sorry to have bothered you.

Mcymo

On Sunday 19 October 2014 07:41:38 Sergey M. wrote:

That's because this video requires paid subscription according to twitch
player. So we'll need at least to implement authentication with twitch
credentials.

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[haasn]

Is adding authentication a planned change, or is this more “won't fix” territory?

I would consider buying a paid subscription to one of the channels I want to continue watching, but without youtube-dl support my subscription would be completely useless. (I refuse to install/use Flash)

[phihag]

We definitely intend to add support for twitch.tv logins, and you are more than welcome to add a pull request.

[dstftw]

Added authentication support. Anyone with paid subscription to test?

[dercorny]

Hi,
I've tested this with a paid subscription and it does not quite work. Does the code take care of the authenticity_token (see dump - I've XXXXed the value out but didnt touch anything apart from that)?

[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-u', u'PRIVATE', '-p', u'PRIVATE', '--write-pages', 'http://www.twitch.tv/gsl/b/630344073']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.02.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-21-Twenty_One
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.4.6, ffprobe 2.4.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}

Dumps are available at: https://app.dumptruck.goldenfrog.com/p/Vu38sj6OOf

[dstftw]

Thanks for the report.
Paid subscription videos will be supported in the next version.

[phihag]

I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2015.02.28. See our FAQ if you need help updating.