Support Canal Alpha

[vekin03]

Checklist

• [x] I'm reporting a new site support request
• [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• [x] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x] I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• [x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

News

• Full episode (complete daily news): https://www.canalalpha.ch/play/le-journal/episode/24520/jeudi-28-octobre-2021
• Single video: https://www.canalalpha.ch/play/le-journal/topic/24512/la-poste-fait-de-neuchatel-un-pole-cryptographique

TV Shows

The TV channel has several shows available on their website. For example:

• "EUREKA": https://www.canalalpha.ch/play/eureka/episode/24484/ces-innovations-qui-veulent-rendre-lagriculture-plus-durable
• "Avec le temps...": https://www.canalalpha.ch/play/avec-le-temps/episode/23516/redonner-de-leclat-grace-au-polissage

Description

This is a regional TV channel in Switzerland. Their website is completely free and no membership is required.

Important: this site was added in the fork yt-dlp so the code already exists to support it! See here for more information.

Thanks!

[dirkf]

The yt-dlp extractor runs as-is. Just copy https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/raw/master/yt_dlp/extractor/canalalpha.py into the youtube_dl/extractors directory and add this line to youtube_dl/extractors/extractors.py:

from .canalalpha import CanalAlphaIE

(before the line for CanalPlus to keep the conventional sort order)