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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py index de7379a92..f92e61fea 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py @@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): return new_url def _real_extract(self, url): + parsed_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url) + if not parsed_url.scheme: + self._downloader.report_warning('The url doesn\'t specify the protocol, trying with http') + return self.url_result('http://' + url) + try: new_url = self._test_redirect(url) if new_url: |