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CNN URL falls back to generic information extractor #4541
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[cnn] Add support for articles with videos (fixes #4541)
URL: "http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/politics/obama-north-koreas-hac
k-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism/"
youtube-dl -v "http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/politics/obama-north-koreas-hac
k-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/politics/obama-
north-koreas-hack-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.12.17.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-g31dfe20
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] obama-north-koreas-hack-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] obama-north-koreas-hack-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism: Downloading webpa
ge
[generic] obama-north-koreas-hack-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism: Extracting inform
ation
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/politics/obama-north-korea
s-hack-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.o
rg/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to upd
ate. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete
output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\extractor\generic.pyo", line 660, in _real_extract
File "youtube_dl\utils.pyo", line 1444, in parse_xml
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1300, in XML
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1642, in feed
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1506, in _raiseerror
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 2, column 16
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 592, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 243, in extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\generic.pyo", line 1060, in _real_extract
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/politics/obama-no
rth-koreas-hack-not-war-but-cyber-vandalism/; please report this issue on https:
//yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -
U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its
complete output.
Thanks...
RIngo