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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py index b633e896c..1c468f8f6 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py @@ -107,8 +107,13 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): return new_url def _real_extract(self, url): - new_url = self._test_redirect(url) - if new_url: return [self.url_result(new_url)] + try: + new_url = self._test_redirect(url) + if new_url: + return [self.url_result(new_url)] + except compat_urllib_error.HTTPError: + # This may be a stupid server that doesn't like HEAD, our UA, or so + pass video_id = url.split('/')[-1] try: |