Fixes the InfoExtractor for the Colbert Report.

diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 64383fea41ba0a14e132f5200e7675b048528bb4..e9d8ad5b3968966630a72e25ba5e1b36f2a50e53 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -2332,10 +2332,19 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
                        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: