i cant dowload videos from playvids.com

[Tox86]

hi is imposible download from playvids.com

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with --verbose option.

[Tox86]

Paste the URL you want to download: https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG

[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Downloading webpage
[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG

[Tox86]

im using this bath file for download

@echo off

set downloads=C:\Users??????\Downloads

REM ---

echo.
echo.
echo.
echo This is a batch file that will use youtube-dl to download
echo a video from a live streaming site like YouTube and others.
echo.
echo.
set /p url="Paste the URL you want to download: "

if "%url%"=="" goto no_url

REM We need double '%' to escape them.
youtube-dl.exe %url% -i -w --restrict-filenames -o "%downloads%%%(upload_date)s-%%(id)s-%%(title)s.%%(ext)s"
echo.
echo Finished!
goto end

:no_url
echo You didn't give me a URL

:end
echo ------------------------------
pause
exit

[daxterfellowesserversllc]

It appears that a valid test for Playvid is:

_VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.playvid\.com/watch(\?v=|/)(?P<id>.+?)(?:#|$)'

https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG doesn't follow suit with that. Is this an alternative domain name for them?

[yan12125]

Well seems playvids.com is different from playvid.com. By the way, playvids.com always displays a blank page here. Is this website still working?

[towo]

Yep, playvids still works. Loads an encapsulated flash streamer; you can probably get the files by parsing the video_url argument of the flash player; it seems to take seriously long to start downloading, though.

[yan12125]

OK I can finally view it with a clean Firefox. However, the original example https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG looks owned by shooshtime.com. youtube-dl's policy is that websites specializing in copyright infringement will not be supported. Though a logo does not that indicate shooshtime.com is the copyright holder, a safe example is better. Do you have another example?

[slrslr]

I am also getting Unsupported URL error

C:\youtube-dl>youtube-dl --verbose https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.14
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Downloading webpage
[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Extracting information
[generic] 42sBOHAuwaG: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Failed to download MPD manifest: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpekokknty\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpekokknty\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 437, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpekokknty\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3063, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.playvids.com/v/42sBOHAuwaG

The m4s files seems to be located on userscontent.net domain
I tried http://jdownloader.org and it downloaded the file, though that software is adware.

[yan12125]

@slrslr: playvids.com is not going to be supported due to the reason stated in #8042 (comment)