ARD Mediathek not Working

[cdietrich]

[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Mitten-in-Deutschland-NSU/Die-T\xe4ter-Heute-ist-nicht-alle-Tage/Das-Erste/Video?bcastId=34392786']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.3, ffprobe 2.6.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ARD:mediathek] Video: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 371, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1935, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[jaimeMF]

The url doesn't work in the browser, I suspect you are trying to download from http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Mitten-in-Deutschland-NSU/Die-T%C3%A4ter-Heute-ist-nicht-alle-Tage/Das-Erste/Video?bcastId=34392786&documentId=34405336. Since it contains an & you have to quote the URL.

The videos seems to be georestricted (I guess it's only available in Germany), could you confirm it works from Germany?

[cdietrich]

yes quoting works.

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for checking it, I'm closing the issue then.