[USAToday] [Brightcove] USAToday not supported falls back on generic

[vxbinaca]

youtube-dl -v http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/21/ex-nsa-chief-backs-apple-iphone-back-doors/80660024/

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--download-archive', u'~/.ytdlarchive', u'--retries', u'100', u'--no-overwrites', u'--call-home', u'--continue', u'--write-info-json', u'--write-description', u'--write-thumbnail', u'--write-annotations', u'--all-subs', u'--sub-format', u'srt', u'--convert-subs', u'srt', u'--write-sub', u'--add-metadata', u'-f', u'bestvideo+bestaudio/best', u'--merge-output-format', u'mkv', u'--embed-subs', u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'--embed-thumbnail']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/21/ex-nsa-chief-backs-apple-iphone-back-doors/80660024/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.02.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-4.2.0-30-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-15.10-wily
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1, ffprobe 2.7.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Public IP address: 76.101.221.232
[generic] 80660024: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 80660024: Downloading webpage
[generic] 80660024: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/21/ex-nsa-chief-backs-apple-iphone-back-doors/80660024/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1308, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 248, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=etree.TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 237, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/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/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 666, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 316, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1950, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/21/ex-nsa-chief-backs-apple-iphone-back-doors/80660024/

[yan12125]

USAToday now uses some custom scripts to load the Brightcove player, so an individual extractor is necessary.

Before this site is implemented, use the following Brightcove URL to download this video:

youtube-dl -vF "http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?playerID=3700942850001&@videoPlayer=ref:80701170"

[remitamine]

will be supported in the next version.

[vxbinaca]

Thanks!