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| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py index 895658f49..e714fa6b0 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py +++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): self._downloader.to_screen(u'[redirect] Following redirect to %s' % new_url) def _test_redirect(self, url): - """Check if it is a redirect, like url shorteners, in case restart chain.""" + """Check if it is a redirect, like url shorteners, in case return the new url.""" class HeadRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request): def get_method(self): return "HEAD" @@ -1362,11 +1362,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): return False self.report_following_redirect(new_url) - self._downloader.download([new_url]) - return True + return new_url def _real_extract(self, url): - if self._test_redirect(url): return + new_url = self._test_redirect(url) + if new_url: return [self.url_result(new_url)] video_id = url.split('/')[-1] request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url) |