epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
mMovieParams = re.findall('(?:<param name="movie" value="|var url = ")(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*episode.*?:.*?))"', html)
+
if len(mMovieParams) == 0:
- self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
- return
+ # The Colbert Report embeds the information in a without
+ # a URL prefix; so extract the alternate reference
+ # and then add the URL prefix manually.
+ altMovieParams = re.findall('data-mgid="([^"]*episode.*?:.*?)"', html)
+ if len(altMovieParams) == 0:
+ self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
+ return
+ else:
+ mMovieParams = [("http://media.mtvnservices.com/" + altMovieParams[0], altMovieParams[0])]
+
playerUrl_raw = mMovieParams[0][0]
self.report_player_url(epTitle)
try: