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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index e13816c66..9b6498894 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
'Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:%s" ) to search YouTube'
) % (url, url), expected=True)
else:
- assert ':' in default_search
+ if ':' not in default_search:
+ default_search += ':'
return self.url_result(default_search + url)
url, smuggled_data = unsmuggle_url(url)