From a7130543fa0368175740f5fa173ef920671db866 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
 <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 18:39:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [generic] If the url doesn't specify the protocol, then try
 to extract prepending 'http://'

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index de7379a921..f92e61fea5 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: