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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-23 01:21:30 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-23 01:21:30 +0100
commit61ca9a80b34b14fa0e5e19e35ee76e0086d49edf (patch)
tree74122c9f0b93c68fb3dbf7bd582b5b9346750b66 /youtube_dl/extractor
parent317239b097a913824e20d436cdb8c74161564268 (diff)
[generic] Add support for BOMs (Fixes #4753)
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor')
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py3
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(