[franceinfo.fr] all links are detected as Unsupported URL #13173
Description
Checklist
- I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site
- I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions)
- I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
- I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
- I've searched known issues, the FAQ, and the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
- I've read about sharing account credentials and I'm willing to share it if required
Region
any
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I might be delusional here, but it seems to me that FranceInfo videos seemed to work just fine as I remember downloading a couple some time ago. Now yt-dlp will try to handle this via a generic extractor and all links come up with Unsupported URL result. Maybe URL structure changed or something. No geo restriction on these pages.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
./yt-dlp -vU -F "https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456.html"
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '-F', 'https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2025.04.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [505b40079] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.12.2 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-15.3.2-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.07.04, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.45.1, urllib3-2.2.2, websockets-12.0 (unsupported)
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests
[debug] Plugin directories: none
[debug] Loaded 1858 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: stable@2025.04.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2025.04.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456.html
[generic] robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor
[generic] robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456: Extracting information
[debug] Looking for embeds
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1653, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1788, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 748, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py", line 2579, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/robert-de-niro-portrait-d-un-monument-du-cinema_7245456.html