Site request: opensubtitles.org

[keybounce]

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• [ x] Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ youtube-dl -v --list-subs http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/5756206/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-owl-s-well-that-ends-well-en
 | pbcopy
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--no-mtime', u'-o', u'%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-f', u'best[height<=480]/bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio', u'--write-sub', u'--embed-subs', u'--recode-video', u'mp4']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--list-subs', u'http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/5756206/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-owl-s-well-that-ends-well-en']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.06.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-74965-g26a0cd1-tessus, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/5756206/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-owl-s-well-that-ends-well-en
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1440, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2524, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2513, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: undefined entity &nbsp;: line 28, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 343, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2140, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/5756206/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-owl-s-well-that-ends-well-en

keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ 

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/5756206/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-owl-s-well-that-ends-well-en

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First: I'd like to see subtitle fetching support from this site. It's the only site I know of that provides subtitles (there are probably others).

Second: I'd like to see support for fetching a video from one site, and subtitles from another site. Even if it takes two youtube-dl calls, or two lines in a batch file, but have the subtitles combined into the video file.

[yan12125]

Seems there are only subtitles but no videos on this site? Currently youtube-dl supports video/audio websites only. A policy change is necessary to support such sites.

[keybounce]

Exactly. I like subtitles.