Re: youtube-dl → yt-dlp, was Re: OT: Detecting ISP throttling (was: Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.)

[l0f4r0@tuta.io]

Hello,

30 mars 2023, 20:46 de bret@busby.net:

> Fri Mar 31 02:18:31 bret@bret-Precision-Tower-5810:~$yt-dlp https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng
> [generic] expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng: Requesting header
> WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
> [generic] expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng: Downloading webpage
> [generic] expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng: Extracting information
> ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng
> Fri Mar 31 02:19:05 bret@bret-Precision-Tower-5810:~$
>
yt-dlp cannot download videos from every and each websites on the internet.

You can find the compatible websites here: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md

In your case, yt-dlp falls back on its generic extractor (documentation says "Generic downloader that works on some sites") but it doesn't work for familysearch.org visibly...

As mentioned by David, you should try the following command to see (hopefully) that your yt-dlp works just fine:
yt-dlp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzonnwoR2I

l0f4r0