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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-01 22:34:58 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-01 22:34:58 +0100
commit9f435c5f1ce9566cf69b582b98b941d980d61262 (patch)
treef305e2b582fa84b37a8812ade12b77570c49fc22 /youtube_dl/extractor/commonmistakes.py
parent931e2d1d26f32c0ae3c1508b664207654529344d (diff)
Add an extractor for common mistakes (#4610)
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+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import ExtractorError
+
+
+class CommonMistakesIE(InfoExtractor):
+ IE_DESC = False # Do not list
+ _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
+ (?:url|URL)
+ '''
+
+ _TESTS = [{
+ 'url': 'url',
+ 'only_matching': True,
+ }, {
+ 'url': 'URL',
+ 'only_matching': True,
+ }]
+
+ def _real_extract(self, url):
+ msg = (
+ 'You\'ve asked youtube-dl to download the URL "%s". '
+ 'That doesn\'t make any sense. '
+ 'Simply remove the parameter in your command or configuration.'
+ ) % url
+ if self._downloader.params.get('verbose'):
+ msg += ' Add -v to the command line to see what arguments and configuration youtube-dl got.'
+ raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)