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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 3 |
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py index a3de0ba60..300485c7f 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py @@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): except compat_xml_parse_error: pass + # Sometimes embedded video player is hidden behind percent encoding + # (e.g. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2448) + # Unescaping the whole page allows to handle those cases in a generic way webpage = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(webpage) # it's tempting to parse this further, but you would |