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SRF (Swiss Televison) broke site

See original GitHub issue

I’m reporting a broken site support
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.09.06
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

youtube-dl -v https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/dok/video/alkohol---der-globale-rausch\?urn\=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/dok/video/alkohol---der-globale-rausch?urn=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.06
[debug] Python version 3.7.7 (CPython) - Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] alkohol---der-globale-rausch?urn=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] alkohol---der-globale-rausch?urn=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2: Downloading webpage
[generic] alkohol---der-globale-rausch?urn=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/dok/video/alkohol---der-globale-rausch?urn=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3382, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/dok/video/alkohol---der-globale-rausch?urn=urn:srf:video:a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2

Description

I’ve used youtube-dl before for downloading DOKs from SRF (to watch in the train). The linked DOK cannot be downloaded with a recent version.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:17 (10 by maintainers)

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Surkalcommented, Sep 9, 2020

in extractor/srgssr.py, line 109 :

_VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
                    https?://
                        (?:(?:www|play)\.)?
                        (?P<bu>srf|rts|rsi|rtr|swissinfo)\.ch/play/(?:tv|radio)/
                        (?:
                            [^/]+/(?P<type>video|audio)/[^?]+|
                            popup(?P<type_2>video|audio)player
                        )
                        \?id=(?P<id>[0-9a-f\-]{36}|\d+)
                    '''

This regular expression must be updated to capture new URLs.

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github-com-bqmcommented, Sep 9, 2020

You actually don’t have to give the whole keyword “alkohol” in the base part of the URL. One letter is enough. So you can take this as base:

https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/dok/video/a?id=

And then add the id to it, giving you:

https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/dok/video/a?id=a763f288-c32a-4352-a33d-ffe5ce114ad2