jaimeMF
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10 years ago You have to encode the url, it should be url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blinkx.com%2F%23ce%2F8aQUy7GVFYgFzpKhT0oqsilwOGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenBLaFQwb3FzaWx3OGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenB. It will depend on the language you're using, in python you can use urllib.urlencode.
Most url wont have any problems, but others will, so you should always escape them.
ksy5662
Seems not taking # in the URL. commandline youtube-dl is O.K with some changed for blinkx
_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://(?:www.)blinkx.com/#*ce/|blinkx:)(?P[^?]+)'
Here is some error log for GAE
http://xxxxxx.appspot.com/api/?url=http://www.blinkx.com/#ce/8aQUy7GVFYgFzpKhT0oqsilwOGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenBLaFQwb3FzaWx3OGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenB
Log from GAE
2013-12-21 05:13:39.180 /api/?url=http://www.blinkx.com/ 200 464ms 0kb Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36 module=default version=alpha-3-4 221.158.56.138 - - [21/Dec/2013:05:13:39 -0800] "GET /api/?url=http://www.blinkx.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 321 - "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36" "tubedown63772.appspot.com" ms=465 cpu_ms=47 cpm_usd=0.000099 app_engine_release=1.8.8 instance=00c61b117c281cde63f98bd4668e70a5a95bfb60 E 2013-12-21 05:13:38.936 WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. D 2013-12-21 05:13:38.937 [generic] : Downloading webpage D 2013-12-21 05:13:39.173 [generic] : Extracting information E 2013-12-21 05:13:39.177 ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.blinkx.com/; 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. E 2013-12-21 05:13:39.179 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/data/home/apps/s~tubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/youtube_dl_server/API/APIresponder.py", line 73, in get_response vids = videos(url) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~tubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/youtube_dl_server/API/APIresponder.py", line 49, in videos res = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~tubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/lib/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 496, in extract_info self.report_error(compat_str(de), de.format_traceback()) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~tubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/lib/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 368, in report_error self.trouble(error_message, tb) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~tubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/lib/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 343, in trouble raise DownloadError(message, exc_info) DownloadError: ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.blinkx.com/; 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.