Afreecatv not working

[irjowo99]

Checklist

• [x ] I'm reporting a broken site support
• [ ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• [ ] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [ ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [ ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

C:\Users\Owner\Downloads>youtube-dl https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/87524568 [generic] 87524568: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] 87524568: Downloading webpage [generic] 87524568: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/87524568

C:\Users\Owner\Downloads>youtube-dl https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/87524568 -v [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/87524568', '-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041 [debug] exe versions: none [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] 87524568: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] 87524568: Downloading webpage [generic] 87524568: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/87524568 Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 534, in extract File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3489, in _real_extract youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/87524568

Description

Trying to download videos from afreecatv is not working at this time.

[dirkf]

The extractor expects VOD URLs to look like https://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/nnnn. Replace /player/ by /PLAYER/STATION/ in your URLs to work around this.

This patch addresses the problem:

--- old/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/afreecatv.py
+++ new/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/afreecatv.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
                                 /app/(?:index|read_ucc_bbs)\.cgi|
                                 /player/[Pp]layer\.(?:swf|html)
                             )\?.*?\bnTitleNo=|
-                            vod\.afreecatv\.com/PLAYER/STATION/
+                            vod\.afreecatv\.com/(?:PLAYER/STATION|player)/
                         )
                         (?P<id>\d+)
                     '''

[dirkf]

See also https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3151.

Note that the patch can't easily be applied if you have a single-file youtube-dl.exe on Windows. Install Python 3 and use pip to install from the master branch here; then apply the patch; or wait for a new release.

[irjowo99]

I manually inserted /PLAYER/STATION/ and it works now! Thanks!

[dirkf]

Keeping this open until the future PR based on the above commit is merged.