From 1ddbd033f0fd65917526b1271cea66913ac8647f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sepro <sepro@sepr0.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:27:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/generic] Simplify invalid URL error message (#14167)

Authored by: seproDev
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
index b05d6ca590..d44e6d3c4b 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
@@ -786,9 +786,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                     return self.url_result('ytsearch:' + url)
 
             if default_search in ('error', 'fixup_error'):
-                raise ExtractorError(
-                    f'{url!r} is not a valid URL. '
-                    f'Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  yt-dlp "ytsearch:{url}" ) to search YouTube', expected=True)
+                raise ExtractorError(f'{url!r} is not a valid URL', expected=True)
             else:
                 if ':' not in default_search:
                     default_search += ':'