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Hello, I was trying to download a video from https://www.nowness.com/. The link below is in an unsupported url format for youtube-dl. I read the documentation and NOWNESS is a supported site. Your help is much appreciated, Thanks! :)
$ youtube-dl -v https://www.nowness.com/series/directors-cuts/peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.nowness.com/series/directors-cuts/peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.08.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell: Downloading webpage
[generic] peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.nowness.com/series/directors-cuts/peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1211, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1594, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 655, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 287, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1804, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.nowness.com/series/directors-cuts/peter-lindbergh-the-reunion-cindy-crawford-naomi-campbell