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Please update website : https://www.youku.tv/. Thanks ! #26676

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opened 2026-02-21 13:17:05 -05:00 by deekerman · 6 comments

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Originally created by @jayt1990 on GitHub (Aug 22, 2023).

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Originally created by @jayt1990 on GitHub (Aug 22, 2023).  ## Checklist  - [x] I'm reporting a feature request - [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version **2021.12.17** - [x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar feature requests including closed ones ## Description  WRITE DESCRIPTION HERE

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@jayt1990 commented on GitHub (Aug 22, 2023):

Please update website : https://www.youku.tv/. Thanks !

@jayt1990 commented on GitHub (Aug 22, 2023): Please update website : https://www.youku.tv/. Thanks !

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 13:17:10 -05:00

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Aug 22, 2023):

How? Why?

Maybe you meant to open a broken site support issue, with the required supporting information?

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Aug 22, 2023): How? Why? Maybe you meant to open a broken site support issue, with the required supporting information?

deekerman commented

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@Vangelis66 commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2023):

FWIW:

www.youku.com is the Chinese version of youku, and there's already an IE for that, youku.py:

class YoukuIE(InfoExtractor):
    IE_NAME = 'youku'
    IE_DESC = '优酷'
    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
        (?:
            https?://(
                (?:v|player)\.youku\.com/(?:v_show/id_|player\.php/sid/)|
                video\.tudou\.com/v/)|
            youku:)
        (?P<id>[A-Za-z0-9]+)(?:\.html|/v\.swf|)
    '''

I can't check www.youku.com in yt-dl and in my browser, because it's mostly geo-blocked for non-Chinese IPs...

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=youku.com+is%3Aopen

and

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=youku.com+is%3Aclosed

both suggest the youku.com IE might be broken (up for investigation by China natives) ...

OP is asking for support of www.youku.tv, which is the international version of youku 😜 ; below URI:

https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html

plays fine (no account required, no DRM enforced) in my South European location; but there's a catch: the first time you load www.youku.tv in your browser, you're presented with a "smart captcha" challenge (please, slide [towards the right] to verify [you're not a bot]):

not sure if/how yt-dl will be able to cope with that...

FTR:

yt-dl -vF "https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html" => 

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ffmpeg-location', '.\\FFmpeg', '--external-downloader-args', '-v 8 -stats', '-vF', 'https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs mbcs, out cp737, pref cp1253
[debug] youtube-dl version 2023.08.04.2154
[debug] Lazy loading extractors enabled
[debug] Single file build
[debug] Python 3.4.10 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 - OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n6.1-dev-1700-N-111584-ga4e6168, ffprobe n6.1-dev-1700-N-111584-ga4e6168, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Downloading webpage
[generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Extracting information
WARNING: [generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Failed to parse JSON Invalid control character at: line 12 column 1367 (char 1817)
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 859, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 955, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 565, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3704, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html

meant to open a broken site support issue,

more like a Site Support Request 😜 (hopefully, a "fixed" youku.py can handle both *.youku.com and *.youku.tv URIs ) ...

@Vangelis66 commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2023): FWIW: `www.youku.com` is the **Chinese** version of **youku**, and there's already an IE for that, `youku.py`: ```python class YoukuIE(InfoExtractor): IE_NAME = 'youku' IE_DESC = '优酷' _VALID_URL = r'''(?x) (?: https?://( (?:v|player)\.youku\.com/(?:v_show/id_|player\.php/sid/)| video\.tudou\.com/v/)| youku:) (?P<id>[A-Za-z0-9]+)(?:\.html|/v\.swf|) ''' ``` I can't check `www.youku.com` in `yt-dl` and in my browser, because it's mostly geo-blocked for **non-Chinese** IPs... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=youku.com+is%3Aopen and https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=youku.com+is%3Aclosed both suggest the `youku.com` IE **might be broken** (up for investigation by _China_ natives) ... OP is asking for support of `www.youku.tv`, which is the **international** version of **youku** 😜 ; below URI: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html **plays fine** (**no account** required, **no DRM** enforced) in my South European location; but there's a catch: the first time you load `www.youku.tv` in your browser, you're presented with a "smart captcha" challenge (please, slide [towards the right] to verify [you're not a bot]): ![sc](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/assets/9669492/adfcf6ed-1b40-41f2-ad36-2e1b355c2188) not sure if/how `yt-dl` will be able to cope with that... FTR: ```console yt-dl -vF "https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html" => [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--ffmpeg-location', '.\\FFmpeg', '--external-downloader-args', '-v 8 -stats', '-vF', 'https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs mbcs, out cp737, pref cp1253 [debug] youtube-dl version 2023.08.04.2154 [debug] Lazy loading extractors enabled [debug] Single file build [debug] Python 3.4.10 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 - OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n6.1-dev-1700-N-111584-ga4e6168, ffprobe n6.1-dev-1700-N-111584-ga4e6168, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Downloading webpage [generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Extracting information WARNING: [generic] id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==: Failed to parse JSON Invalid control character at: line 12 column 1367 (char 1817) ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 859, in wrapper return func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 955, in __extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 565, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File "C:\Python3410-32\yt-dl_pycompile\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3704, in _real_extract raise UnsupportedError(url) youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.youku.tv/v/v_show/id_XNTk3NTM3NTU4OA==.html ``` > meant to open a **broken site** support issue, more like a `Site Support Request` 😜 (hopefully, a "fixed" `youku.py` can handle both `*.youku.com` and `*.youku.tv` URIs ) ...

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 13:17:10 -05:00

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@jayt1990 commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2023):

Yes please update youku.tv into [youku] extractor. Thanks so much!

@jayt1990 commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2023): Yes please update youku.tv into [youku] extractor. Thanks so much!

deekerman commented

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@Vangelis66 commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2023):

@jayt1990

Please, there was no need to quote the bulk of my comment, especially since it was immediately preceding yours 😉 ...

I can also understand English not being your "forte", but, be that as it may, you should have started by first reading fully the PINNED issue #30839 and then proceeding to file a proper Site Support Request (by complying fully to its template), if you were so inclined...

There's currently only one person taking on "maintainer duties" and it's hard for him to process incomplete issue reports; I hope you do understand that 😄 ...

Regards.

@Vangelis66 commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2023): @jayt1990 Please, there was no need **to quote the bulk of my comment**, especially since it was **immediately preceding yours** 😉 ... I can also understand English not being your "forte", but, be that as it may, you should have started by first reading _fully_ the PINNED issue #30839 and then proceeding to file a proper `Site Support Request` (by complying fully to its template), if you were so inclined... There's currently only one person taking on "maintainer duties" and it's hard for him to process `incomplete` issue reports; I hope you do understand that 😄 ... Regards.

deekerman commented

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2023):

See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/8058

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2023): See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/8058

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