FXNetworks URL falling back to generic downloader

[cas4]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.01.15
• 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

Verbose log

youtube-dl.exe --verbose --hls-prefer-native -o ".\Movies\The Star.mp4" --ap-mso Comcast_SSO --ap-username **** --ap-password *** http://fxnow.fxnetworks.com/movies-and-specials/the-star
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--hls-prefer-native', '-o', '.\\Movies\\The Star.mp4', '--ap-mso', 'Comcast_SSO', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', 'http://fxnow.fxnetworks.com/movies-and-specials/the-star']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.15
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-61620-ge555e1b, ffprobe git-2017-12-23-d02289c
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] the-star: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://fxnow.fxnetworks.com/movies-and-specials/the-star
[generic] the-star: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] the-star: Downloading webpage
[generic] the-star: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://fxnow.fxnetworks.com/movies-and-specials/the-star
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp43n_zyg3\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp43n_zyg3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp43n_zyg3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3347, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://fxnow.fxnetworks.com/movies-and-specials/the-star

Description

FX Networks URL must have changed since it is now falling back to the generic downloader.

[tv21]

I have also experienced this. It appears to me that they are now using nearly the same format as the disn⋸y network, but not quite. If someone could figure out how to correctly parse the URL, maybe the disn⋸y network extractor would work. Compare these two example URL's (the show name has been concealed by #### in both cases):

https://disn⋸ynow.com/shows/####/season-01/episode-01-title-of-the-show/vdka1??????2

https://fxnow.fxnetworks.com/shows/####/episode-guide/season-01/episode-01-title-of-the-show/vdka3??????4

So the URL's are nearly identical, the only differences are

• fxnow.fxnetworks.com replaces disn⋸ynow.com
• /episode-guide/ appears between the show name and season

Also if you use wget to get a fxnetworks.com link you see the string disn⋸y in there several times, which also makes me think maybe the disn⋸y network extractor should be the one being used now, but I'm not a programmer and don't really understand how the extractors parse a URL.

[jamakal]

Hi @tv21, had a look for you on the back of #22820 and it ended up being pretty trivial to add the FXNetworks brand to the Go extractor as well. Submitted a PR to fix.

[tv21]

Hi @tv21, had a look for you on the back of #22820 and it ended up being pretty trivial to add the FXNetworks brand to the Go extractor as well. Submitted a PR to fix.

Thanks, I very much appreciate it but it doesn't seem to work for me, probably because some FX shows use a different URL format than your example URL. Please see my comment on your PR. I suspect it would be fairly trivial to make that format work also if you know what you are doing, but I don't. Thank you again for taking a crack at this.