From a0d6fe7b924697c089ed7ae37df0ca590ac38a96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
<jaimemf93@gmail.com>
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 895658f49..e714fa6b0 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)