NHL URL failure...

[RingoTheDog]

URL:
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=750727
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/?id=736722
(different URLs, same video...same result)

youtube-dl.py -v "http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=750727"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=750727']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-g31dfe20, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] news: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] news: Downloading webpage
[generic] news: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=750727
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 681, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1490, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 88, column 87
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 613, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 266, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 1090, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=750727

youtube-dl.py -v "http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/?id=736722"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/?id=736722']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-g31dfe20, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ?id=736722: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?id=736722: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?id=736722: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/?id=736722
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 681, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1490, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 22, column 109
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 613, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 266, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 1090, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/?id=736722

Thanks (again....)
Ringo

[dstftw]

Will be fixed in the next version, thanks for the report.

[phihag]

youtube-dl 2015.02.02 and newer add support for these URLs as well. Unfortunately, the nhl seems to be pretty nimble when it comes to inventing new URL formats. Thanks for the continuing reports! See our FAQ if you need help updating.