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diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index fde026fbf..bfa0c6d43 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from .compat import (
compat_str,
compat_urllib_error,
compat_urllib_request,
+ shlex_quote,
)
from .utils import (
escape_url,
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ from .utils import (
write_string,
YoutubeDLHandler,
prepend_extension,
+ args_to_str,
)
from .cache import Cache
from .extractor import get_info_extractor, gen_extractors
@@ -253,6 +255,22 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
self.print_debug_header()
self.add_default_info_extractors()
+ def warn_if_short_id(self, argv):
+ # short YouTube ID starting with dash?
+ idxs = [
+ i for i, a in enumerate(argv)
+ if re.match(r'^-[0-9A-Za-z_-]{10}$', a)]
+ if idxs:
+ correct_argv = (
+ ['youtube-dl'] +
+ [a for i, a in enumerate(argv) if i not in idxs] +
+ ['--'] + [argv[i] for i in idxs]
+ )
+ self.report_warning(
+ 'Long argument string detected. '
+ 'Use -- to separate parameters and URLs, like this:\n%s\n' %
+ args_to_str(correct_argv))
+
def add_info_extractor(self, ie):
"""Add an InfoExtractor object to the end of the list."""
self._ies.append(ie)
@@ -1410,3 +1428,4 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
if encoding is None:
encoding = preferredencoding()
return encoding
+