3sat

[user778899]

Not a big deal ... but:

youtube-dl http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?obj=xxx # ok
youtube-dl http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=xxx # not ok

where xxx is the number of the video

Regards
Roland

P.S.: Thanks for your work :-)

[dstftw]

I bet you forgot to escape & or enclose the URL into quotes. Post the full output you get when running with --verbose option.

[user778899]

On 12/28/2014 08:23 PM, Sergey M. wrote:

I bet you forgot to escape |&| or enclose the URL into quotes. Post the full output you get when running with |--verbose| option
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#bugs.

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I had simply to edit the url and remove the substring "mode=play&" ... then it worked.

roland@roland-desktop:$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=42946
[1] 8174
roland@roland-desktop:$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-o', 'Downloads/%(title)s @ %(id)s/%(title)s.%(id)s.%(ext)s', '--write-info-json']
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.12.17.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-74-generic-pae-i686-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] exe versions: avconv 0.8.16-4, avprobe 0.8.16-4, ffmpeg 0.8.16-4, ffprobe 0.8.16-4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ?mode=play: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?mode=play: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?mode=play: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 660, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1444, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1301, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1643, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1507, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: undefined entity ü: line 5, column 81
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 592, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 243, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1060, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play; 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.

[dstftw]

As I said you have to escape ampersands or enclose the URL into quotes in order to prevent ampersands to be treated as control operators by shell: youtube-dl "http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=42946"

[user778899]

On 12/28/2014 08:47 PM, Sergey M. wrote:

As I said you have to escape ampersands or enclose the URL into quotes in order to prevent ampersands to be treated as control
operators by shell: |youtube-dl "http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=42946"|

Oh ...

I misunderstood you.

Now I know what you mean. Thanks for your hint.

Thanks and sorry for my stupidity ... I should have known this ;-)

Regards
Roland