Unsupported URL einsplus.de

[matschmann]

Downloading the video from http://www.einsplus.de/-/id=15131588/11u4oy4/index.html doesn't work:

[rs@RainersMac ~/Movies] youtube-dl http://www.einsplus.de/-/id\=15131588/11u4oy4/index.html -v                 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.einsplus.de/-/id=15131588/11u4oy4/index.html', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.02.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.3.2, ffprobe 2.3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] index: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] index: Downloading webpage
[generic] index: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.einsplus.de/-/id=15131588/11u4oy4/index.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 751, in _real_extract
    doc = parse_xml(webpage)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1522, in parse_xml
    tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 227, column 97
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 643, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 275, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1202, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.einsplus.de/-/id=15131588/11u4oy4/index.html

[tiktok7]

Based on a quick look at the request stream from the browser, I could see the following pattern.

Example: http://www.einsplus.de/go__geek-folge-01/-/id=15131588/did=15175110/nid=15131588/1rx08f1/index.html contains the following code fragment:

<script>var _nlvq=[['api','picsters'],['uid','YHV29Z'],['width','640'],['height','360']];</script>

The video information is requested in json format with the same parameters: http://nlv.bittubes.com/db/meta.json9.php?api=picsters&uid=YHV29Z

The available video formats are listed in the json file under the "Source" key name (ignore "Objects"... it contains links to the embedded links displayed during the video replay)

I see a few problems with this:

1. Other programme pages on the site don't seem to use the same method of delivery - example or example2
2. The generic downloader seems to be at least starting a download with the normal flash video app on the other pages (albeit with errors and warnings)
3. The link for the json seems to be put together by the off-site script (bittubes.com... meta.json9 etc). I could find no reference to the link in the html content.

@matschmann: are you sure this isn't just a once off format for this series? Are there other series with the same format on the site?

[thtomate]

einsplus does not exist anymore.