From d7f44b5bdba7e4e23401c8ccdf0c238e24c6697d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 02:29:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [youtube] Warn if URL is most likely wrong (#969) --- youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index 025afb3904..109c8a93fa 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -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: