Imgur URL causes endless loop

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$ youtube-dl http://imgur.com/r/aww/VQcQPhM
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[generic] VQcQPhM: Extracting information
[generic] VQcQPhM: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user

 youtube-dl http://imgur.com/VQcQPhM
[Imgur] VQcQPhM: Downloading webpage
[download] The boss is here-VQcQPhM.mp4 has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 684.66KiB
<end of log>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

When I try to download this imgur link in the /r/foo/hash format, youtube-dl seems to go into an endless loop. When I get rid of the /r/aww/ part of the URL, it works fine. Other imgur.com links are working fine.

[Hrxn]

Avoid imgur URLs with the /r/ part?

As you already know, the hash or id is the important part of the URL.

But yeah, this can be fixed by stripping out the /r/<xzy> part automatically.

Don't know what you're trying to do, but you can also do this with a text editor, for example.

Edit:

Okay, one little problem here. If the post is an album, the format imgur.com/<xyz> doesn't work.
Only imgur.com/a/<xyz> instead, for example.

Not sure if that is always the case, I am not really familiar with Imgur, but if the hash/ID has a length of 5 characters, it is an album, and if it's 7, a single post.

[Hrxn]

Okay, I hacked together a bit of JavaScript, you can run it in you browser's dev console (Ctrl+Shift+I or Ctrl+Shift+J (Chomium) or Ctrl+Shift+K (Firefox))

// Select (container) elements
var a = document.querySelectorAll('div.post');
var cat = document.querySelectorAll('link')[8].getAttribute('href').replace(/http(s?).*\//, "");
var sst = "/r/" + cat + "/"
// Callback funtion for array loop
function getPostUrl(e, i, a) {
  var n = a[i];
  var c = n.getElementsByClassName('image-list-link');
  var o = c[0].getAttribute('href');
  var s = o.replace(sst, "")
  if (s.length === 5)
    console.log("https://imgur.com/a/" + s);
  if (s.length === 7)
    console.log("https://imgur.com/" + s);
}
// Iterate found elements
a.forEach(getPostUrl);

These URLs should work with youtube-dl..
Although youtube-dl ignores images, as far as I know, for obvious reasons 😄

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. /r/ URLs will be recognized in the next version.