youtube-dl: Can't download ITV hub show

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I am trying to download a show from the ITV hub (here: https://www.itv.com/hub/the-ellen-degeneres-show/2a4350a1024). Using Stream Detector on Firefox, I get the following code to paste into Youtube-dl:

youtube-dl --no-part --restrict-filenames --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0" --add-header "Cookie:Itv.Session={%22tokens%22:{%22content%22:{%22entitlement%22:{%22purchased%22:[]%2C%22failed_availability_checks%22:[]%2C%22source%22:%22%22}%2C%22email_verified%22:true%2C%22access_token%22:%22eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2F1dGguaXR2LmNvbSIsInN1YiI6IjZkYmFmYWU3LTU0NzYtNDNmYS1hYWEwLTAwODQxYmY2OTFkMSIsImV4cCI6MTYzNzg0MjMwMiwiaWF0IjoxNjM3NzUyMzAyLCJicm9hZGNhc3RFcnJvck1zZyI6IiIsImJyb2FkY2FzdFJlc3BvbnNlQ29kZSI6IjIwMCIsImJyb2FkY2FzdGVyIjoiSVRWIiwiaXNBY3RpdmUiOnRydWUsIm5vbmNlIjoiZGdSQ1gzWWVkNURvWWl6VjhQN20iLCJuYW1lIjoiU2VhbiIsInNjb3BlIjoiY29udGVudCIsImVudGl0bGVtZW50cyI6W10sInBheW1lbnRTb3VyY2UiOiIiLCJzaG93UHJpdmFjeU5vdGljZSI6ZmFsc2UsInVuZGVyMTgiOmZhbHNlfQ.Da_C_X8gHGWh6QBo1Im_hqspwvo9z8XVKkItpCqKW9BYtJVivSSB5eqO-b1Q9U8fk9QN5IqXTM2nOHe22BUTm02rcKUXgsTJ41pRqaAuAquuSXkPpZSnOgbiE0flsEnQN78mfTzs0k9jvLO-A0QT939NowHCcd8_BfbdFCrE11FI0zCFyTHKatVuS9j1bDK98Nd2O61iphtBcmNBwaql1p94okb6QWYSI3kqFyNBICgziTwi-6t-kCZ76_wSopIPUuQ21oRz4911esS3kBId4SdrUcSpezAgUS-_GS3XpCMiOLWGJ69fXU3qzkXP8NRLYSxcf_RTU4QkmWs6kjvaXg%22%2C%22token_type%22:%22bearer%22%2C%22refresh_token%22:%22eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2F1dGguaXR2LmNvbSIsInN1YiI6IjZkYmFmYWU3LTU0NzYtNDNmYS1hYWEwLTAwODQxYmY2OTFkMSIsImV4cCI6NDc5MzQyNTkwMiwiaWF0IjoxNjM3NzUyMzAyLCJub25jZSI6ImRnUkNYM1llZDVEb1lpelY4UDdtIiwic2NvcGUiOiJjb250ZW50IiwiYXV0aF90aW1lIjoxNjM3NzUyMzAyfQ.GV1cqako7yaGvA393O9oa9cVhX0I-Sw5M2wSR1gg5RAYt1lzYIY0T2nLUu3xLte8p1JqlAVb_1IEV_Yts12dxQTHVmDupqA33dKIlA0Pxxkq1Mv8x5WjjOuVgnmjf1lmm7Ygt8560V9olis5fKlONa4QNrsX1c4O0RNr630WzPBbFk6e1PsGJ2bVOBxp5ja8kzun-_oOCjonrQOxTHj3-e9RmyCVJdbRLzpFkfJf_n03zNXly_d-uBad3vodfHemv8dQJeXXKSDQGVAq3idlPj77bEHfRkfmE6yUMBjMlZSF_C3HfqomFyN84wNw9JiQLMumwP2tHNpfnYVvqBWy4Q%22}}%2C%22sticky%22:true}; mid=1709081696670734686; _cs_c=1; _cs_id=8fcd982a-e516-ad59-e9f0-5ec3cfcfacdc.1637751312.1.1637752301.1637751312.1.1671915312583; _cs_s=7.0.0.1637754101993; __utma=187186800.658762206.1637751313.1637751313.1637751313.1; __utmb=187186800.13.9.1637752166735; __utmc=187186800; __utmz=187186800.1637751313.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); _hjSessionUser_1586194=eyJpZCI6IjcyMmJhMjBmLWU5MzEtNTA1YS1iYjYyLWFhMTI3NTBkMTViOSIsImNyZWF0ZWQiOjE2Mzc3NTEzMTMwODcsImV4aXN0aW5nIjp0cnVlfQ==; _hjFirstSeen=1; _hjSession_1586194=eyJpZCI6IjQ2MTY2NDM1LThhZTQtNGJhOC05NjAzLTM4ZTBjOGVjMjY1MiIsImNyZWF0ZWQiOjE2Mzc3NTEzMTMwOTN9; _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress=0; Itv.CookiePolicy.v2=accepted; Itv.Region=ITV|null; __utmt_UA-17825253-53=1" --referer "https://www.itv.com/" "https://itvpnpdotcom.cdn1.content.itv.com/2-4350-1024-001/18/1/VAR028/2-4350-1024-001_18_1_VAR028.ism/.mpd?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9pdHZwbnBkb3Rjb20uY2RuMS5jb250ZW50Lml0di5jb20vMi00MzUwLTEwMjQtMDAxLzE4LzEvVkFSMDI4LzItNDM1MC0xMDI0LTAwMV8xOF8xX1ZBUjAyOC5pc20vKiIsIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MTYzNzc3NTcwM319fV19&Signature=InPnv~NiUQzV2St09QxkG5u63iiUWKbWsV4V5csiShiz0YOEVf9gy7OvYAPRCPXjSg2T95wzshNY8Whl92I2AMBv69jyyrY0s8zGI7ja6dMxZB0mbxyg5L8M15Y2TnwwgTSnfqpDfX9HkZdBZXnhRt~Ko6cbPf-Ao8NcI0-DcNFKrAuw8AQIECo-F4YFdECk9AcqPcgWvIVJngUYhQmQY97foz2~13UhTK7H-DbGqyYyocgt-YDeNfBCnLfoBotVDqe2q6laK81wX5BGHiEKzj44t3hHqE-H4GUhfq8vHeHYbyeR92pDSjAlNGuW4CYxQqXRTQl70fI6dN~PP32rKg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJB7PCFZAZHWZVIBA"

However, this produces the following error:

ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Created 3 years ago
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| age -a -r age1zkz9g0kld97vs826j0r7p3ghvz3zcyd4tcqr2vrxpt0uux7mkycsl77hy6

Here is what I get: YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBBcEJVTDNoWS9JbnhWa0t5 MnA4YWFNL3FrZkhpL2FyaDZSaHROaFBvSW5FCmxZeDlJUXgwbGtvNHZOdHFTU3Va VWMyZjF4K2JPbllCbHVqTnJiZ3B3RlUKLS0tIEQyWi9nWm4vdExnakJ6ZGloZXgy MHpRa0h0Z2UxdXQwaS9CVmpYRnZmSEEKGsbNOd51mCWzJbUcbMTLeEo7UaljKt84 29QazEQhUU6RE3+r/jgSa4gr4cbGWtqL4aNrjTGD37DpBz9MfJOgEPs=

This is the actual video I’m trying to download: https://www.itv.com/hub/the-ellen-degeneres-show/2a4350a1027

seanadl on Nov 26, 2021

Here is PR https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30266 which basically back-ports the yt-dlp extractor for ITV.

As far as I can see, the API request for test #1 (Plebs S1E1) gives 404 unless you’re logged in, but I’d be happy to add a different test or fix the extractor to make the test work.

However, test #2 (J Ross S17E08) runs, except that the test skips the download (M3U8, expected).

Bad news for OP. As suggested, the extractor identifies the Ellen episode as ‘No downloads available’, because the available media types are:

{
  'mobile': [
  ],
  'dotcom': [
    ['mpeg-dash',
    'outband-webvtt',
    'playready'],
    [
      'mpeg-dash',
      'widevine'
    ],
    [
      'fairplay',
      'hls',
      'outband-webvtt'
    ],
    [
      'mpeg-dash',
      'outband-webvtt',
      'widevine'
    ],
    [
      'fairplay',
      'hls'
    ],
    [
      'mpeg-dash',
      'playready'
    ]
  ]
}

So no non-DRM formats.

dirkf on Nov 24, 2021

We’ve already established that you won’t be able to download a playable version of this show using yt-dl.

For patching the installation, it looks like the re-compression didn’t work properly. IIRC Finder’s Compress doesn’t have an update-in-place function, unlike perhaps something like iZip. The actual script used to create the Unix self-extracting version of yt-dl is in the Makefile; it’s meant to be run in the youtube-dl folder of a checked out version of the repository:

youtube-dl: youtube_dl/*.py youtube_dl/*/*.py
	mkdir -p zip
	for d in youtube_dl youtube_dl/downloader youtube_dl/extractor youtube_dl/postprocessor ; do \
	  mkdir -p zip/$$d ;\
	  cp -pPR $$d/*.py zip/$$d/ ;\
	done
	touch -t 200001010101 zip/youtube_dl/*.py zip/youtube_dl/*/*.py
	mv zip/youtube_dl/__main__.py zip/
	cd zip ; zip -q ../youtube-dl youtube_dl/*.py youtube_dl/*/*.py __main__.py
	rm -rf zip
	echo '#!$(PYTHON)' > youtube-dl
	cat youtube-dl.zip >> youtube-dl
	rm youtube-dl.zip
	chmod a+x youtube-dl
`
where `PYTHON=/usr/bin/env python` by default.

dirkf on Nov 26, 2021