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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2015-01-23 01:21:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2015-01-23 01:21:30 +0100 |
| commit | 61ca9a80b34b14fa0e5e19e35ee76e0086d49edf (patch) | |
| tree | 74122c9f0b93c68fb3dbf7bd582b5b9346750b66 /youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | |
| parent | 317239b097a913824e20d436cdb8c74161564268 (diff) | |
| download | youtube-dl-61ca9a80b34b14fa0e5e19e35ee76e0086d49edf.tar.xz | |
[generic] Add support for BOMs (Fixes #4753)
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py index 7a5bf9392..b893d8149 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from ..utils import ( ExtractorError, float_or_none, HEADRequest, + is_html, orderedSet, parse_xml, smuggle_url, @@ -647,7 +648,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): # Maybe it's a direct link to a video? # Be careful not to download the whole thing! first_bytes = full_response.read(512) - if not re.match(r'^\s*<', first_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')): + if not is_html(first_bytes): self._downloader.report_warning( 'URL could be a direct video link, returning it as such.') upload_date = unified_strdate( |