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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py3
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py20
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 7a5bf9392..b893d8149 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from ..utils import (
ExtractorError,
float_or_none,
HEADRequest,
+ is_html,
orderedSet,
parse_xml,
smuggle_url,
@@ -647,7 +648,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
# Maybe it's a direct link to a video?
# Be careful not to download the whole thing!
first_bytes = full_response.read(512)
- if not re.match(r'^\s*<', first_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')):
+ if not is_html(first_bytes):
self._downloader.report_warning(
'URL could be a direct video link, returning it as such.')
upload_date = unified_strdate(
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 764474c33..b433b591b 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1631,3 +1631,23 @@ def age_restricted(content_limit, age_limit):
if content_limit is None:
return False # Content available for everyone
return age_limit < content_limit
+
+
+def is_html(first_bytes):
+ """ Detect whether a file contains HTML by examining its first bytes. """
+
+ BOMS = [
+ (b'\xef\xbb\xbf', 'utf-8'),
+ (b'\x00\x00\xfe\xff', 'utf-32-be'),
+ (b'\xff\xfe\x00\x00', 'utf-32-le'),
+ (b'\xff\xfe', 'utf-16-le'),
+ (b'\xfe\xff', 'utf-16-be'),
+ ]
+ for bom, enc in BOMS:
+ if first_bytes.startswith(bom):
+ s = first_bytes[len(bom):].decode(enc, 'replace')
+ break
+ else:
+ s = first_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+
+ return re.match(r'^\s*<', s)