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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
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Unable to download from investigationdiscovery.com #15082

Open ghost opened 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Please follow the guide below


Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.12.23. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

What is the purpose of your issue?


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


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] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>

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):

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

Explanation of your issue in arbitrary form goes here. Please make sure the description is worded well enough to be understood. Provide as much context and examples as possible. If work on your issue requires account credentials please provide them or explain how one can obtain them.

./youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt -F https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/web-of-lies/ [generic] web-of-lies: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] web-of-lies: Downloading webpage [generic] web-of-lies: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/web-of-lies/ ./youtube-dl -U youtube-dl is up-to-date (2017.12.23) ./youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt -F https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/web-of-lies/ [generic] web-of-lies: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] web-of-lies: Downloading webpage [generic] web-of-lies: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/web-of-lies/

I'm thinking its not working because it is not investigationdiscoverygo.com? Youtube-dl worked before through the "GO" page. I think they've gone away with "GO"? Anyway to use Youtube-dl on the main website?

StevenDTX commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14954