Can't download video from xml page

[ekimyar]

Trying to set up a daily download of the rachel maddow show (don't judge). Only place that seems like it might work is http://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V.xml

Youtube playlist is audio only (weird but true.) Rachel maddow show page on MSNBC doesn't work.

Doing this from a Raspberry Pi running Raspian 'Wheezy'. Here's what I get:

youtube-dl -o '/media/USBHDD1/TV/The Rachel Maddow Show/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' --download-archive ~/.mydownloads "http://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V.xml" [generic] MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V: Downloading webpage
[generic] MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V: Extracting information
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 19, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 397, in main

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 387, in _real_main

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1442, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 643, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 275, in extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 753, in _real_extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 587, in _extract_rss
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

[ekimyar]

I'm not sure how many Raspberry Pi hacking folks are Rachel Maddow watchers, but just in case the number is more than one, I wrote a bash script to make this work. I'm using it to download her show into my Kodi/XMBC TV directory each day that a new one is available

#!/bin/bash
##download maddow each day in theory anyway
##of course it's not that easy. The youtube playlist is only audio. Dicks.
##so this is supposed to parse the xml, but I'm pretty sure it wont work
wget "http://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V.xml" -O /home/pi/rachel.xml
DATA=$(grep "enclosure url" /home/pi/rachel.xml)
##The echos are only here so I could watch what was happening while trying to make it work.
echo $DATA
url=$( echo $DATA | grep -oPm1 "(?<=<enclosure url=")[^"]+" )
##Another debugging echo
echo $url
youtube-dl -o "/media/USBHDD1/TV/'The Rachel Maddow Show'/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --download-archive ~/.mydownloads $url

[phihag]

Fixed in youtube-dl 2015.03.03 and newer. See our FAQ if you need help updating.