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opened 2026-02-20 23:24:29 -05:00 by deekerman · 8 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:29 -05:00

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Originally created by @RingoTheDog on GitHub (Nov 20, 2014).

http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia

Most clips are from YouTube.

youtube-dl.py -v http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Downloading webpage
[generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-
l with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 609, in _real_extract
doc = parse_xml(webpage)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1332, in parse_xml
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 29, column 86
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 536, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 199, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 996, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call
youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

(JFYI...RSS Feed can be found here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/videos.xml)

Thanks
Ringo

Originally created by @RingoTheDog on GitHub (Nov 20, 2014). http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia Most clips are from YouTube. youtube-dl.py -v http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.20 [debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Downloading webpage [generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube- l with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 609, in _real_extract doc = parse_xml(webpage) File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1332, in parse_xml tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML parser.feed(text) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed self._raiseerror(v) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror raise err ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 29, column 86 Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 536, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 199, in extract return self._real_extract(url) File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 996, in _real_extract raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url) ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. (JFYI...RSS Feed can be found here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/videos.xml) Thanks Ringo

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2026-02-20 23:24:29 -05:00

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deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:33 -05:00

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@lofidevops commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

Slightly different error message with 2014.11.25.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 (not sure if this helps or just confirms it is indeed a site request and not a generic extractor issue):

youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.25.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.0-25-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11-6, avprobe 11-6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Downloading webpage
[generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 553, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 240, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1010, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

@lofidevops commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): Slightly different error message with 2014.11.25.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 (not sure if this helps or just confirms it is indeed a site request and not a generic extractor issue): ``` youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia" [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.25.1 [debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.0-25-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic [debug] exe versions: avconv 11-6, avprobe 11-6, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Downloading webpage [generic] this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 553, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 240, in extract return self._real_extract(url) File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1010, in _real_extract raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url) youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/this-angry-ram-destroys-a-punching-bag-like-a-boss?utm_term=4ldqpia; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. ```

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:33 -05:00

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@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

This is specific to Buzzfeed - the site doesn't contain any actual video but just animated gifs with a textual reference to the YouTube video. Would you expect youtube-dl to download the gif files or the YouTube video?

@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): This is specific to Buzzfeed - the site doesn't contain any actual video but just animated gifs with a _textual_ reference to the YouTube video. Would you expect youtube-dl to download the gif files or the YouTube video?

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:33 -05:00

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@RingoTheDog commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

No YouTube-dl should not download the animated GIFs....but it should find the embedded YouTube clip.

...of possible relevance: When I mouse over the youtube video on BuzzFeed a series of icons pop up on the left (for pintrest, facebook, email etc...)

Here is the DIV with the embedded link from that page (embed id="embed_" src=)

div class="video-embed-videopost video-embed-area bf_dom" id="video_buzz_element_" rel:thumb="http://img.youtube.com/vi/aVCR29aE_OQ/2.jpg" rel:bf_bucket_data="{"video" : {"size": "videopost", "width":"860", "height":"517", "url":"http://www.youtube.com/v/aVCR29aE_OQ", "id":""}}"

embed id="embed_" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aVCR29aE_OQ?version=3&hl=en&fs=1&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=embed_&autoplay=0&showinfo=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="860" height="517" bgcolor="#000" wmode="opaque" class="ytvideo"

/div

@RingoTheDog commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): No YouTube-dl should not download the animated GIFs....but it should find the embedded YouTube clip. ...of possible relevance: When I mouse over the youtube video on BuzzFeed a series of icons pop up on the left (for pintrest, facebook, email etc...) ![buzzfeed](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4542921/5203943/eb94dc26-753f-11e4-8afc-9d5211e5d613.png) Here is the DIV with the embedded link from that page (embed id="embed_" src=) div class="video-embed-videopost video-embed-area bf_dom" id="video_buzz_element_" rel:thumb="http://img.youtube.com/vi/aVCR29aE_OQ/2.jpg" rel:bf_bucket_data="{"video" : {"size": "videopost", "width":"860", "height":"517", "url":"http://www.youtube.com/v/aVCR29aE_OQ", "id":""}}" embed id="embed_" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aVCR29aE_OQ?version=3&hl=en&fs=1&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=embed_&autoplay=0&showinfo=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="860" height="517" bgcolor="#000" wmode="opaque" class="ytvideo" /div

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:34 -05:00

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@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

Oh, I'm sorry, the website renders completely differently for me:

I'll look into the source.

@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): Oh, I'm sorry, the website renders completely differently for me: ![ytdl_screenshot](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/779568/5205578/ac46e43e-7598-11e4-8cbb-624f606be6de.png) I'll look into the source.

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:34 -05:00

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@RingoTheDog commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

ha ha ha ha ha.... grumpy cat

...No problem ...and THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

@RingoTheDog commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): ha ha ha ha ha.... grumpy cat ...No problem ...and THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:34 -05:00

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@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.11.26.4 and newer. See our FAQ if you are having trouble updating. I am not sure that I have captured everything on Buzzfeed though, so I'd appreciate feedback (and more example URLs) about the new extractor.

@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.11.26.4 and newer. See [our FAQ](https://yt-dl.org/update) if you are having trouble updating. I am not sure that I have captured everything on Buzzfeed though, so I'd appreciate feedback (and more example URLs) about the new extractor.

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 23:24:34 -05:00

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@RingoTheDog commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014):

Nicely done...that RAM video works, but here is one that does not:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheridanwatson/look-at-this-cute-dog-omg?utm_term=4ldqpia

youtube-dl.py -v http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheridanwatson/look-at-this-cute-dog-omg?utm_term=4ldqpia
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheridanwatson/look-at-this-cute-dog-omg?utm_term=4ldqpia']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.26.4
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[BuzzFeed] look-at-this-cute-dog-omg: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: You Need To Stop What You're Doing And Watching This Dog Walk On A Treadmill
[BuzzFeed] playlist You Need To Stop What You're Doing And Watching This Dog Walk On A Treadmill: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)

thanks

@RingoTheDog commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2014): Nicely done...that RAM video works, but here is one that does not: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheridanwatson/look-at-this-cute-dog-omg?utm_term=4ldqpia youtube-dl.py -v http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheridanwatson/look-at-this-cute-dog-omg?utm_term=4ldqpia [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheridanwatson/look-at-this-cute-dog-omg?utm_term=4ldqpia'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.26.4 [debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-40824-, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [BuzzFeed] look-at-this-cute-dog-omg: Downloading webpage [download] Downloading playlist: You Need To Stop What You're Doing And Watching This Dog Walk On A Treadmill [BuzzFeed] playlist You Need To Stop What You're Doing And Watching This Dog Walk On A Treadmill: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them) thanks

deekerman commented

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@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 27, 2014):

Ok, added support for that type of video too in youtube-dl 2014.11.27.

@phihag commented on GitHub (Nov 27, 2014): Ok, added support for that type of video too in youtube-dl 2014.11.27.

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