Support # in the URL

[ksy5662]

Seems not taking # in the URL.
commandline youtube-dl is O.K with some changed for blinkx

_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://(?:www.)blinkx.com/#*ce/|blinkx:)(?P[^?]+)'

Here is some error log for GAE

http://xxxxxx.appspot.com/api/?url=http://www.blinkx.com/#ce/8aQUy7GVFYgFzpKhT0oqsilwOGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenBLaFQwb3FzaWx3OGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenB

Log from GAE

2013-12-21 05:13:39.180 /api/?url=http://www.blinkx.com/ 200 464ms 0kb Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36 module=default version=alpha-3-4
221.158.56.138 - - [21/Dec/2013:05:13:39 -0800] "GET /api/?url=http://www.blinkx.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 321 - "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36" "tubedown63772.appspot.com" ms=465 cpu_ms=47 cpm_usd=0.000099 app_engine_release=1.8.8 instance=00c61b117c281cde63f98bd4668e70a5a95bfb60
E 2013-12-21 05:13:38.936
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
D 2013-12-21 05:13:38.937
[generic] : Downloading webpage
D 2013-12-21 05:13:39.173
[generic] : Extracting information
E 2013-12-21 05:13:39.177
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.blinkx.com/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
E 2013-12-21 05:13:39.179
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/data/home/apps/stubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/youtube_dl_server/API/APIresponder.py", line 73, in get_response
vids = videos(url)
File "/base/data/home/apps/stubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/youtube_dl_server/API/APIresponder.py", line 49, in videos
res = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
File "/base/data/home/apps/stubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/lib/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 496, in extract_info
self.report_error(compat_str(de), de.format_traceback())
File "/base/data/home/apps/stubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/lib/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 368, in report_error
self.trouble(error_message, tb)
File "/base/data/home/apps/s~tubedown63772/alpha-3-4.372489474374418417/lib/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 343, in trouble
raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
DownloadError: ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.blinkx.com/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

[jaimeMF]

You have to encode the url, it should be url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blinkx.com%2F%23ce%2F8aQUy7GVFYgFzpKhT0oqsilwOGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenBLaFQwb3FzaWx3OGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenB. It will depend on the language you're using, in python you can use urllib.urlencode.
Most url wont have any problems, but others will, so you should always escape them.

[ksy5662]

Thanks a lot!!