Please update website : https://www.youku.tv/. Thanks !

[jayt1990]

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[jayt1990]

Please update website : https://www.youku.tv/. Thanks !

[dirkf]

How? Why?

Maybe you meant to open a broken site support issue, with the required supporting information?

[Vangelis66]

FWIW:

www.youku.com is the Chinese version of youku, and there's already an IE for that, youku.py:

class YoukuIE(InfoExtractor):
    IE_NAME = 'youku'
    IE_DESC = '优酷'
    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
        (?:
            https?://(
                (?:v|player)\.youku\.com/(?:v_show/id_|player\.php/sid/)|
                video\.tudou\.com/v/)|
            youku:)
        (?P<id>[A-Za-z0-9]+)(?:\.html|/v\.swf|)
    '''

I can't check www.youku.com in yt-dl and in my browser, because it's mostly geo-blocked for non-Chinese IPs...

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=youku.com+is%3Aopen

and

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=youku.com+is%3Aclosed

both suggest the youku.com IE might be broken (up for investigation by China natives) ...

OP is asking for support of www.youku.tv, which is the international version of youku 😜 ; below URI:

https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html

plays fine (no account required, no DRM enforced) in my South European location; but there's a catch: the first time you load www.youku.tv in your browser, you're presented with a "smart captcha" challenge (please, slide [towards the right] to verify [you're not a bot]):

not sure if/how yt-dl will be able to cope with that...

FTR:

yt-dl -vF "https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html" => 

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ffmpeg-location', '.\\FFmpeg', '--external-downloader-args', '-v 8 -stats', '-vF', 'https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs mbcs, out cp737, pref cp1253
[debug] youtube-dl version 2023.08.04.2154
[debug] Lazy loading extractors enabled
[debug] Single file build
[debug] Python 3.4.10 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 - OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n6.1-dev-1700-N-111584-ga4e6168, ffprobe n6.1-dev-1700-N-111584-ga4e6168, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Downloading webpage
[generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Extracting information
WARNING: [generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Failed to parse JSON Invalid control character at: line 12 column 1367 (char 1817)
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 859, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 955, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 565, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3704, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html

meant to open a broken site support issue,

more like a Site Support Request 😜 (hopefully, a "fixed" youku.py can handle both *.youku.com and *.youku.tv URIs ) ...

[jayt1990]

Yes please update youku.tv into [youku] extractor. Thanks so much!

[Vangelis66]

@jayt1990

Please, there was no need to quote the bulk of my comment, especially since it was immediately preceding yours 😉 ...

I can also understand English not being your "forte", but, be that as it may, you should have started by first reading fully the PINNED issue #30839 and then proceeding to file a proper Site Support Request (by complying fully to its template), if you were so inclined...

There's currently only one person taking on "maintainer duties" and it's hard for him to process incomplete issue reports; I hope you do understand that 😄 ...

Regards.

[dirkf]

See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/8058