Site support request: DAZN.com

[bahhhhh]

Please follow the guide below

• You will be asked some questions and requested to provide some information, please read them carefully and answer honestly
• Put an x into all the boxes [ ] relevant to your issue (like this: [x])
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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.10.07. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• [x] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.10.07

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• [x] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• [x] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• [ ] Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• [x] Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• [ ] Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• [ ] Question
• [ ] Other

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The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your issue

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

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.dazn.com/en-CA/competition/Competition:wy3kluvb4efae1of0d8146c1/ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-17.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.2, avprobe 12.2, ffmpeg 3.3.4, ffprobe 3.3.4, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei: Downloading webpage
[generic] ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.dazn.com/en-CA/competition/Competition:wy3kluvb4efae1of0d8146c1/ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2156, 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 "/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: mismatched tag: line 45, column 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3051, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.dazn.com/en-CA/competition/Competition:wy3kluvb4efae1of0d8146c1/ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei

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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):

• Single video: https://www.dazn.com/en-CA/competition/Competition:wy3kluvb4efae1of0d8146c1/ArticleId:f8nvxa8g55ty12hyzllyr0iei

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

No issue.

[Hrxn]

Account required? Does not work for me in browser..

[bahhhhh]

@Hrxn Yes, an account is required. My mistake - forgot to specify.

[fagits]

has this website been added?

[Hrxn]

Not yet...

[PlaceboPRS]

Would it help if you were provided with a working login?

[rein-10]

does it help that dazn has now added chromecast support?

[dirkf]

No.