[youtube] Warn if URL is most likely wrong (#969)

pull/932/merge
Philipp Hagemeister 12 years ago
parent 48bfb5f238
commit d7f44b5bdb

@ -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:

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