Noovo.ca stopped working today

Checklist

• [ X] I’m reporting a broken site support
• [ X] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.03.25
• [ X] I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [ X] I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [ X] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

youtube-dl --verbose https://www.noovo.ca/emissions/entre-deux-draps/le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10

[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.noovo.ca/emissions/entre-deux-draps/le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.03.25
[debug] Python version 3.8.7 (CPython) - Linux-5.11.7-100.fc32.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10: Downloading webpage
[generic] le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.noovo.ca/emissions/entre-deux-draps/le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 806, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3506, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.noovo.ca/emissions/entre-deux-draps/le-cycle-de-la-vie-s1e10

Description

The site noovo.ca changed its layout today. The extractor noovo.py stopped working (it has been working flawlessly for months). The URL doesn’t pass the _VALID_URL test anymore. I tried to bypass the test but then the “brightcove id” of the video is not found.

[fredbourni]

Being the one who first did the pull request for Noovo, this make me real sad, but I believe this extractor should be removed given that the streams are now protected using Widevine. Trying to circumvent this DRM would potentially have legal implications we would like youtube-dl to stay away from.

[FlaminHat]

Can’t it be made to ignore those flags and try to download anyway?