Foxnews, updated website, unsupported URL

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• I’m reporting a broken site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.09.01 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
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US

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Very recently (sometime in the last week), Fox News changed their website for video playback, and apparently broke yt-dlp compatibility in the process. It had previously worked without fail under the previous design, so I’m just (hopefully correctly) bringing this issue up.

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• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

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[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313058664112']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.09.01 [5d7c7d6] (win32_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
[debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1670 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2022.09.01, Current version: 2022.09.01
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.09.01)
[debug] [generic] Extracting URL: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313058664112
[generic] 6313058664112: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor
[generic] 6313058664112: Extracting information
[debug] Looking for Brightcove embeds
[debug] Looking for embeds
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313058664112
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1459, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1535, in __extract_info
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 670, in extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\generic.py", line 3078, in _real_extract
yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313058664112

[gamer191]

Does yt-dlp https://video.foxnews.com/v/6313058664112 work?

Please leave this issue open, even if that workaround does work.

Note for maintainers: I didn’t remove the triage label, because I haven’t had time to read the triaging checklist yet

[Nhb93]

Still getting this for a full episode, but it works on non-episode videos, at least through command line. I still need to figure out what’s wrong with passing the update to yt-dlg.

yt-dlp https://www.foxnews.com/video/6314779941112 [generic] 6314779941112: Downloading webpage WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor [generic] 6314779941112: Extracting information WARNING: [DetikEmbed] 6314779941112: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting ‘,’ delimiter in ‘"{\n “@type”: "P’: line 39 column 8 (char 2043) WARNING: [generic] 6314779941112: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting ‘,’ delimiter in ‘"{\n “@type”: "P’: line 39 column 8 (char 2043) ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6314779941112