From a0d6fe7b924697c089ed7ae37df0ca590ac38a96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 22:33:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] When a redirect is found return the new url using the new style --- youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py index 895658f497..e714fa6b07 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py +++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): self._downloader.to_screen(u'[redirect] Following redirect to %s' % new_url) def _test_redirect(self, url): - """Check if it is a redirect, like url shorteners, in case restart chain.""" + """Check if it is a redirect, like url shorteners, in case return the new url.""" class HeadRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request): def get_method(self): return "HEAD" @@ -1362,11 +1362,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): return False self.report_following_redirect(new_url) - self._downloader.download([new_url]) - return True + return new_url def _real_extract(self, url): - if self._test_redirect(url): return + new_url = self._test_redirect(url) + if new_url: return [self.url_result(new_url)] video_id = url.split('/')[-1] request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)