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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2013-07-01 02:29:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2013-07-01 02:29:29 +0200 |
| commit | d7f44b5bdba7e4e23401c8ccdf0c238e24c6697d (patch) | |
| tree | 8187f5acd890e611d556705e2fbb5e30eccf269e /youtube_dl | |
| parent | 48bfb5f2387ab47e1973d9db0782a9af66ffc4e6 (diff) | |
[youtube] Warn if URL is most likely wrong (#969)
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index 025afb390..109c8a93f 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -402,6 +402,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor): return video_id def _real_extract(self, url): + if re.match(r'(?:https?://)?[^/]+/watch\?feature=[a-z_]+$', url): + self._downloader.report_warning(u'Did you forget to quote the URL? Remember that & is a meta-character in most shells, so you want to put the URL in quotes, like youtube-dl \'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=foo&v=BaW_jenozKc\' (or simply youtube-dl BaW_jenozKc ).') + # Extract original video URL from URL with redirection, like age verification, using next_url parameter mobj = re.search(self._NEXT_URL_RE, url) if mobj: |