thisoldhouse.com has changed their video urls (again)

[jmricker]

This is related to closed issue #10837

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

J:\Media\Videos>youtube-dl.exe https://www.thisoldhouse.com/tv-episode/ask-toh-s
helf-rough-electric -v 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.thisoldhouse.com/tv-episode/ask-toh-she
lf-rough-electric', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-82151-g1e660fe, ffprobe N-82151-g1e660fe
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/tv-episode/ask-toh-shelf-ro
ugh-electric
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 357, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 2443, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.thisoldhouse.com
/tv-episode/ask-toh-shelf-rough-electric...
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/tv-episode/ask-toh-shelf-rough-electric

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

This is an easy one. The extractor for AskThisOldHouse.com works fine for most urls except one which for some reason is the only one that deviates from the pattern of the other urls. What is needed is a small change in youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/thisoldhouse.py at line #8.

from
_VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?thisoldhouse\.com/(?:watch|how-to)/(?P<id>[^/?#]+)'
to
_VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?thisoldhouse\.com/(?:watch|how-to|tv-episode)/(?P<id>[^/?#]+)'

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report and the fix. It will be included in the next version.