Syfy User Agent

[eremini]

Hi,
Seems like Syfy needs a different user agent set.

youtube-dl http://www.syfy.com/12monkeys/videos/201-year-of-the-monkey
[generic] 201-year-of-the-monkey: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 201-year-of-the-monkey: Downloading webpage
[generic] 201-year-of-the-monkey: Extracting information
[redirect] Following redirect to http://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/themes/syfy/pages/lte-ie8.html
[generic] lte-ie8: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] lte-ie8: Downloading webpage
[generic] lte-ie8: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/themes/syfy/pages/lte-ie8.html

I tried this way
youtube-dl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36" http://www.syfy.com/12monkeys/videos/201-year-of-the-monkey

But didn't seem to work

Regards

[yan12125]

I got:

This content is not available in your location.

What's your location?

[siddht4]

i actually found that the video is restricted as its hosted by digital distribution vod.

video url http://player.theplatform.com/p/HNK2IC/syfy20141201/select/media/guid/2304990266/3010068?form=html&playerType=full-episode&autoPlay=true#playerurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syfy.com%2F12monkeys%2Fvideos%2F201-year-of-the-monkey

mobile url http: //player.theplatform.com/p/HNK2IC/dd_syfy_vod_noauth/embed/select/media/guid/2304990266/3010068?form=html&playerType=full-episode&autoPlay=true&FWsiteSection=syfy_tve_embed_vod&FWsiteSectionMobile=syfy_tve_embed_vod_hh&FWsiteSectionTablet=syfy_tve_embed_vod_tab#playerurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syfy.com%2F12monkeys%2Fvideos%2F201-year-of-the-monkey

[siddht4]

the video is actually hosted at http://player.theplatform.com/p/HNK2IC/syfy20141201/select/media/guid/2304990266/3010068

[siddht4]

the video is not available in my location, using proxy and it downloads

[siddht4]

can anyone parse this

tp:plugin1="type=tracking|url=http://sb.scorecardresearch.com/c2/plugins/streamsense_plugin_theplatform.swf|labelmapping=ns_st_cl%3Dclip.length%2Cns_st_pl%3Dplaylist.title%2Cns_st_pr%3Dplaylist.feed%2Cns_st_ep%3Dplaylist.title%2Ctp_aid%3Dplaylist.accountID%2Ctp_st_cat%3Dcontent.baseclip.categories%2Ctp_st_mp%3Dplaylist.player%2Ctp_st_guid%3Dcontent.baseclip.guid|sendErrors=true|c2=9924155|priority=1|persistentlabels=c1%3D2%2Cns_site%3Dtpf%2Ctp_cid%3DNBCU-MPAT%2Ctp_type%3Dproduction|timinglabel=tp_st_ps|sendload=true"
tp:plugin2="type=tracking|url=http://sb.scorecardresearch.com/c2/plugins/streamsense_plugin_theplatform.js|labelmapping=ns_st_cl%3Dclip.length%2Cns_st_pl%3Dplaylist.title%2Cns_st_pr%3Dplaylist.feed%2Cns_st_ep%3Dplaylist.title%2Ctp_aid%3Dplaylist.accountID%2Ctp_st_cat%3Dcontent.baseclip.categories%2Ctp_st_mp%3Dplaylist.player%2Ctp_st_guid%3Dcontent.baseclip.guid|sendErrors=true|c2=9924155|priority=1|persistentlabels=c1%3D2%2Cns_site%3Dtpf%2Ctp_cid%3DNBCU-MPAT%2Ctp_type%3Dproduction|timinglabel=tp_st_ps|sendload=true"
tp:plugin3="type=metadataComponent|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/swf/ratings.swf|reminder=20|enableAgeVerification=false|priority=1|path=http%3A%2F%2Ftve_static-syfy.nbcuni.com%2Fprod%2FPDK%2Fimg%2Fratings%2F|showRatings=true|delay=10"
tp:plugin4="type=metadataComponent|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/js/plugins/ratings.js|reminder=20|enableAgeVerification=false|priority=1|path=http%3A%2F%2Ftve_static-syfy.nbcuni.com%2Fprod%2FPDK%2Fimg%2Fratings%2F|showRatings=true|delay=10"
tp:plugin5="type=adcomponent|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/swf/freewheel.swf|siteSectionId=syfy_vod_hub|playerProfileHTML5=nbcu_live_jsam|pemURLsSeparator=%2C|isLive=false|customVideoAssetIdField=externalAdvertiserId|networkId=169843|pemURLs=http%3A%2F%2Fadm.fwmrm.net%2Fp%2Fnbcu_live%2FAnalyticsExtension.swf|bannerScriptName=tpExtCompanionAdScriptCallback|autoplay=true|exitFullscreenOnPause=false|priority=1|adManagerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fadm.fwmrm.net%2Fp%2Fnbcu_live%2FAdManager.%7Bext%7D|playerProfile=nbcu_live_as3|serverUrl=http%3A%2F%2F29773.v.fwmrm.net"
tp:plugin6="type=adcomponent|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/js/plugins/freewheel.js|siteSectionId=syfy_vod_hub|playerProfileHTML5=nbcu_live_jsam|pemURLsSeparator=%2C|isLive=false|customVideoAssetIdField=externalAdvertiserId|networkId=169843|pemURLs=http%3A%2F%2Fadm.fwmrm.net%2Fp%2Fnbcu_live%2FAnalyticsExtension.swf|bannerScriptName=tpExtCompanionAdScriptCallback|autoplay=true|exitFullscreenOnPause=false|priority=1|adManagerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fadm.fwmrm.net%2Fp%2Fnbcu_live%2FAdManager.%7Bext%7D|playerProfile=nbcu_live_as3|serverUrl=http%3A%2F%2F29773.v.fwmrm.net"
tp:plugin7="type=tracking|url=http://tve-static-syfy.nbcuni.com/prod/PDK/plugin/ggtp400-tmp.js|enablecustomparse=true|DPR=true|priority=1|lfappend=true|sfcode=us|apid=PD037F3CE-5055-48FC-ABA4-87A1B7E27F32|apn=Syfy.com+Player"
tp:plugin8="type=overlay|url=http://tve-static-syfy.nbcuni.com/prod/PDK/js/UIPlugin.js|priority=1"
tp:plugin9="type=content|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/swf/authentication.swf|priority=1"
tp:plugin10="type=content|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/js/plugins/authentication.js|priority=1"
tp:plugin11="type=tracking|url=http://sb.scorecardresearch.com/c2/plugins/streamsense_plugin_theplatform.swf|labelmapping=c3%3D%22syfy%22%2Cc4%3D%22*null%22%2Cc6%3Dcontent.baseclip.categories|c2=3000060|priority=1"
tp:plugin12="type=tracking|url=http://sb.scorecardresearch.com/c2/plugins/streamsense_plugin_theplatform.js|labelmapping=c3%3D%22syfy%22%2Cc4%3D%22*null%22%2Cc6%3Dcontent.baseclip.categories|c2=3000060|priority=1"
tp:plugin13="type=content|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/swf/akamaiHD.swf|fallback=switch%3Dhttp|bufferProfile=livestable|priority=1|manifest=true|videoLayer=akamaihd"
tp:plugin14="type=content|url=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.6/pdk/js/plugins/akamaiHD.js|fallback=switch%3Dhttp|bufferProfile=livestable|priority=1|manifest=true|videoLayer=akamaihd"

[yan12125]

@siddht1 I got the video from the first ThePlatform URL via a US proxy, but the mobile URL

http://player.theplatform.com/p/HNK2IC/dd_syfy_vod_noauth/embed/select/media/guid/2304990266/3010068?form=html&playerType=full-episode&autoPlay=true&FWsiteSection=syfy_tve_embed_vod&FWsiteSectionMobile=syfy_tve_embed_vod_hh&FWsiteSectionTablet=syfy_tve_embed_vod_tab#playerurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syfy.com%2F12monkeys%2Fvideos%2F201-year-of-the-monkey

says "This content is not available from this domain.". Is it working for you?
And what's the purpose of codes in the last comment?

[siddht4]

@yan12125 the URL you specified is also not available , but works via Norway,UK,Sweden proxy.

the codes were actually leading to the same video, you can either understand it as load sharing or vod broadcast mirroring, but its just that i can`t parse the full link either which i found from the html source of http://player.theplatform.com/p/HNK2IC/syfy20141201/select/media/guid/2304990266/3010068
, the video is hosted here . If you view the source code from line no 135 to 148 , that’s the part where all the video mirrors are stored

[remitamine]

If you view the source code from line no 135 to 148 , that’s the part where all the video mirrors are stored.

this codes are not related to the video urls.
for the urls can be extracted from release url.

...
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://link.theplatform.com/s/HNK2IC/media/Ay3MRfJG7e8b?player=Syfy.com%20Player&policy=2713542" type="application/smil+xml" />
...
                tp:releaseUrl="http://link.theplatform.com/s/HNK2IC/media/Ay3MRfJG7e8b?player=Syfy.com%20Player&amp;policy=2713542"
...

the release url accepts query params that affect the urls returned in the platform smil(manifest, switch, assetTypes...) and it depends on the account configuration.
you can see ThePlatform extractor and extractor that use it for examples of these params(nationalgeographic, aenetworks, cbs, nbc...).
i posted a patch that should fix the problem but i can't test it(#3820 (comment)).

[siddht4]

please let me try idm(internet download manager , i m sure it will capture it