"The Roku Channel" site support request

Checklist

• I’m reporting a new site support request
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.01.01
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

• Single video: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/a1006dbbe7b15aacb2793a6148021475
• Single video: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/fdfc814018d257bbae57882731ca911c
• Playlist: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/9d4a17177b2e5ac7a6c3174f005b9446/suddenly-susan/season-1

Description

The ROKU Channel allows for watching streamed media directly from the website. The current implementation requires an account. I’m using the --cookies feature to address authentication and it dose work except with the error: “ERROR: Unsupported URL: …” I’m using the single video URL for my purposes but a playlist URL is possible if parsing a TV Season page.

[remitamine]

you can pass https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/7bac77413d2fbd7d9c79100ba85b59b08960e6f0/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L210 to the params dict on the test case.

[zinthose]

I’m attempting to create the extractor for this site. I have a preliminary draft of the script but I was wondering if the TestDownload script allows for including a cookie file. If not, what would you recommend for testing?

My apologies as I’m not very experienced Python developer. I’ve been looking over the code from other extractors to see if I can find similar examples to pull from.

Additionally, I’m working on determining the cookies required using PostMan.