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Cannot download from bbc.com #4257
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This video can be downloaded with get_iplayer like so: |
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Duplicate of #994. |
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Trying to download a video from bbc.com got the following:
$ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30125792 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30125792', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.13.3
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-39-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.16-6, avprobe 9.16-6, ffmpeg 2.4.3, ffprobe 2.4.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] technology-30125792: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] technology-30125792: Downloading webpage
[generic] technology-30125792: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30125792; 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/extractor/generic.py", line 609, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1307, 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: not well-formed (invalid token): line 136, column 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 536, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 199, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 996, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30125792; 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.
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