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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index de7379a92..f92e61fea 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
return new_url
def _real_extract(self, url):
+ parsed_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url)
+ if not parsed_url.scheme:
+ self._downloader.report_warning('The url doesn\'t specify the protocol, trying with http')
+ return self.url_result('http://' + url)
+
try:
new_url = self._test_redirect(url)
if new_url: