[nationalpost] Site support

jnbdz commented 7 years ago

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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 ```):

$ youtube-dl -v http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.12
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-72-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo: Downloading webpage
[generic] bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1971, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 2, column 193
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 762, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2796, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/bana-alabed-the-seven-year-old-who-live-tweeted-horrors-of-syrian-war-escapes-from-aleppo
...
<end of log>

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Just site support.

jnbdz commented 7 years ago

Another example with another video player.

youtube-dl -v http://nationalpost.com/news/world/is-vladimir-putin-a-judo-fraud-an-investigation/wcm/0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://nationalpost.com/news/world/is-vladimir-putin-a-judo-fraud-an-investigation/wcm/0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-72-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b: Downloading webpage
[generic] 0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://nationalpost.com/news/world/is-vladimir-putin-a-judo-fraud-an-investigation/wcm/0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2060, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 56, column 343
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2915, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://nationalpost.com/news/world/is-vladimir-putin-a-judo-fraud-an-investigation/wcm/0497e342-d746-47aa-9c08-385c076db18b

jnbdz commented 2 years ago

I tried it again today with: youtube-dl https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-election/ontario-liberals-promise-1-transit-fares-across-the-province-would-cost-1-1b

[generic] ontario-liberals-promise-1-transit-fares-across-the-province-would-cost-1-1b: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] ontario-liberals-promise-1-transit-fares-across-the-province-would-cost-1-1b: Downloading webpage [generic] ontario-liberals-promise-1-transit-fares-across-the-province-would-cost-1-1b: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-election/ontario-liberals-promise-1-transit-fares-across-the-province-would-cost-1-1b

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