RFE: New Extractor: PBS

[Baylink-gh]

Example URLs:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365006249/

and

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/

(ticket per phihag)

[Baylink-gh]

Reopening:

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/

jra@princeton:/appl/media/tv> vget -tc --verbose http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-tc', '--verbose', 'http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Linux-3.1.10-1.16-desktop-i686-with-SuSE-12.1-i586
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] : Downloading webpage
[generic] : Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/vget/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 471, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/vget/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 134, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/vget/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 254, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

[Baylink-gh]

FWIW, it does work ok on the base page: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365006249/

So maybe this doesn't need reopened. Thanks to whomever built it, BTW.

[yasoob]

@phihag from what I saw both pages have same markup and hence same mechanism which means that we just have to add a new regex rule to catch these urls. What do you say?
The problem is that some of the urls are a lot of different from each other. For example : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch-online/full-episodes/sherlock-s3-e3-his-last-vow/
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/

[phihag]

Support for the article URLs like http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/ has been added in youtube-dl 2014.02.04. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.