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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py3
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 025afb390..109c8a93f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -402,6 +402,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
return video_id
def _real_extract(self, url):
+ if re.match(r'(?:https?://)?[^/]+/watch\?feature=[a-z_]+$', url):
+ self._downloader.report_warning(u'Did you forget to quote the URL? Remember that & is a meta-character in most shells, so you want to put the URL in quotes, like youtube-dl \'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=foo&v=BaW_jenozKc\' (or simply youtube-dl BaW_jenozKc ).')
+
# Extract original video URL from URL with redirection, like age verification, using next_url parameter
mobj = re.search(self._NEXT_URL_RE, url)
if mobj: