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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index fec39da8b..f027447c8 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
cls._VALID_URL_RE = re.compile(cls._VALID_URL)
m = cls._VALID_URL_RE.match(url)
assert m
- return m.group('id')
+ return compat_str(m.group('id'))
@classmethod
def working(cls):