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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py2
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/commonmistakes.py17
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 55ca0d6e4..fb1e7f325 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ from .collegehumor import CollegeHumorIE
from .collegerama import CollegeRamaIE
from .comedycentral import ComedyCentralIE, ComedyCentralShowsIE
from .comcarcoff import ComCarCoffIE
-from .commonmistakes import CommonMistakesIE
+from .commonmistakes import CommonMistakesIE, UnicodeBOMIE
from .condenast import CondeNastIE
from .cracked import CrackedIE
from .criterion import CriterionIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/commonmistakes.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/commonmistakes.py
index dbbf27a74..2f86e2381 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/commonmistakes.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/commonmistakes.py
@@ -27,3 +27,20 @@ class CommonMistakesIE(InfoExtractor):
if not self._downloader.params.get('verbose'):
msg += ' Add -v to the command line to see what arguments and configuration youtube-dl got.'
raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
+
+
+class UnicodeBOMIE(InfoExtractor):
+ IE_DESC = False
+ _VALID_URL = r'(?P<bom>\ufeff)(?P<id>.*)$'
+
+ _TESTS = [{
+ 'url': '\ufeffhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc',
+ 'only_matching': True,
+ }]
+
+ def _real_extract(self, url):
+ real_url = self._match_id(url)
+ self.report_warning(
+ 'Your URL starts with a Byte Order Mark (BOM). '
+ 'Removing the BOM and looking for "%s" ...' % real_url)
+ return self.url_result(real_url)