Add support for Philo as MSO

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• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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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] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-first-48/season-17/episode-19', u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-8-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.12-1, ffprobe 3.2.12-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[aenetworks] the-first-48/season-17/episode-19: Downloading webpage
[aenetworks] 1308825667564: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: This video is only available for users of participating TV providers. Use --ap-mso to specify Adobe Pass Multiple-system operator Identifier and --ap-username and --ap-password or --netrc to provide account credentials.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jlick/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/jlick/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/jlick/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/aenetworks.py", line 144, in _real_extract
    url, video_id, requestor_id, resource)
  File "/home/jlick/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/adobepass.py", line 1409, in _extract_mvpd_auth
    raise_mvpd_required()
  File "/home/jlick/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/adobepass.py", line 1374, in raise_mvpd_required
    'and --ap-username and --ap-password or --netrc to provide account credentials.', expected=True)
ExtractorError: This video is only available for users of participating TV providers. Use --ap-mso to specify Adobe Pass Multiple-system operator Identifier and --ap-username and --ap-password or --netrc to provide account credentials.

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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):

• Single video: https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-first-48/season-17/episode-19 (When using Philo as activated service provider.)

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.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I use the video streaming service Philo for channels such as A&E. I can also access A&E through my web browser by “signing in” with Philo as my service provider. After activation, I’m able to play videos that would normally be locked. In addition, Philo doesn’t use a login and password to sign in but instead uses a one-time password sent to a mobile phone.

Currently youtube-dl doesn’t appear to support Philo as an MSO. Even if it did, the current code requires a login and password, which isn’t used on Philo. I tried using youtube-dl with complete cookies and no authentication but it doesn’t work. Please consider adding support for Philo as MSO for aetv.com as it is an increasingly popular “skinny bundle” streaming service.

Philo has a free trial available.

[yemaozitw]

I’ve also tried regular --ap-mso Philo --ap-username <email>@gmail.com --netrc and when it prompts for the code I have nothing to give it.

This works for me with current yt-dlp+Philo+A&E (cookies from Chrome): –cookies cookies.txt --ap-mso=Philo --ap-username=phone number --ap-password=None

phone number is the Philo account registered 10 digit phone number (no leading 1, no dashes), e.g. 8085551212

If it asks for a code and you don’t get one on your phone within a couple of minutes, just leave it blank and it’ll probably work.

[liamengland1]

@faizjamil it’s been added to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp