Canalrcn

[Ryan-Amirthan]

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Add support for canalrcn.com videos. Canal RCN is a Colombian television channel. The extractor:

• Extracts video metadata from JSON-LD data
• Handles geo-restricted content (videos are only available in Colombia)
• Delegates video playback to DailyMotion extractor through url_transparent

Example URLs:

• https://www.canalrcn.com/la-rosa-de-guadalupe/capitulos/la-rosa-de-guadalupe-capitulo-58-los-enamorados-3619

[dirkf]

Thanks for your work!

Some initial comments:

• investigate the _search_json_ld(), or else _search_json(), methods
• investigate the traverse_obj utility function
• what happens if you aren't in CO and just carry on passing the video ID to DM?

You should find examples of using the mentioned methods and functions in newer extractors.

The existing ld+json parsing in the core code won't work for this site if what you need is the embedURL but it could/should be modified to separate finding and parsing as in yt-dlp, giving you access to the ld+json Pythonised JSON before it's made into an info-dict.

The test video at DM says that it's marked as private. Does that happen in CO, or does the site pass additional data (cookies, eg) to DM? Maybe that can be reproduced, if necessary, in the extractor for foreign telenovela fans.