Kanopy site support?

[Winkster]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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

C:\Users\****\Downloads>youtube-dl -v --cookies kanopy.cookies.txt https://nypl.kanopy.com/video/ken-burns-empire-air
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--cookies', 'kanopy.cookies.txt', 'https://nypl.kanopy.com/video/ken-burns-empire-air']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.18
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.1, ffprobe 4.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ken-burns-empire-air: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ken-burns-empire-air: Downloading webpage
[generic] ken-burns-empire-air: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://nypl.kanopy.com/video/ken-burns-empire-air
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpcs52imf5\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 794, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpcs52imf5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 529, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpcs52imf5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3320, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://nypl.kanopy.com/video/ken-burns-empire-air

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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://nypl.kanopy.com/video/battleship-potemkin [PUBLIC DOMAIN, see description below]
• Playlist: https://nypl.kanopy.com/playlist/5597146

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Kanopy is very popular with libraries in the US, most notably the NYPL. You should check to see if your local library is supported. Anyway, Kanopy is a treasure trove of educational and/or public domain films and would be an excellent supported site addition to this already excellent app. THANK YOU!

[quinlander]

This needs label "account-needed"

[adriel]

I don't think it'll be possible, looks like they use widevine DRM.

[Winkster]

Bummer, but thanks so much for investigating!

A pity, as Kanopy is a great service, and the sorts of collections libraries serve up through them are in many cases long out of print or hard to find. Thanks again for the 411

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 9:27 PM Adriel Kloppenburg [email protected] wrote:

I don't think it'll be possible, looks like they use widevine DRM. [image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/154217/79924932-3b65bd80-848d-11ea-9529-2e1e07506b24.png

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[aereaux]

I think that not all the videos have DRM, mostly with the documentaries. For example this one (https://www.kanopy.com/product/race) seems to work in firefox without having enabled DRM. Would it be possible to have support for these?

[edisondotme]

Also very interested in this as this website has some rare subtitles I can't find anywhere else!

[garymm]

@89z I just shared an account with you

[CHJ85]

@adriel I've downloaded many videos from there using Video DownloadHelper. And those are not encrypted with Widevine. However, a lot of videos are. It's a hit or miss, like Tubi. However, I'd like to +1 this request.

[101Dude]

What worked for me with Kanopy was to open the m3u8 in another window and run:

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser safari --list-formats

I haven't tested that on many videos... it worked on one.