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http://rosenwasser.co.uk requires you to log in to a see the videos. This is usually done through your web browser of course. How can you use youtube-dl on such a web site? Basically, how do you log in with youtube-dl?
Unfortunately I can't give a username and password but maybe the problem and solution is well known?
An example failure is
youtube-dl --verbose -u user@foo -p password http://rosenwasser.co.uk/videos/video/de80c015
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-u', u'PRIVATE', '-p', u'PRIVATE', 'http://rosenwasser.co.uk/videos/video/de80c015']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-37-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] de80c015: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] de80c015: Downloading webpage
[generic] de80c015: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://rosenwasser.co.uk/videos/video/de80c015; 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/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 553, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1550, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 53, column 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 526, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 193, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 933, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://rosenwasser.co.uk/videos/video/de80c015; 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.