Issue with URLs containing apostrophes converted to %27 in HTML

[digitalhybrid]

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Hello guys,

Long time user, but I'm having an issue when trying to download files containing an apostrophe in the hyperlink. Here are two examples that refuse to download ...

https://www.nbc.com/up-all-night/video/mr.-bob%27s-toddler-kaleidoscope/n2179
https://www.nbc.com/up-all-night/video/day-after-valentine%27s-day/n2189

The log file says the following for each of them ...

[08/29/18 19:44:50] WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[08/29/18 19:46:13] ERROR: list index out of range
[08/29/18 19:46:13] ERROR: list index out of range

All other URLs from these series work without issue. It's only these two that are a problem, and it seems the common denominator is the HTML apostrophe (%27) that's causing the problem.

Any chance of a fix, please?

[digitalhybrid]

Actually, a fix may not be absolutely necessary, but it would certainly make life easier.

I decided to try one other thing, and that was to change %27 in the hyperlink to be an actual apostrophe (') and youtube-dl finally decided to download the files.

[kartik-karz]

@dstftw The problem with this is regarding the utf8 conversion for the url and I'm not sure if using this would have any unintended side effects, I would like to work on this for my first request here to just get to know the code and would like to know your opinion on this one
from urllib.parse import unquote as uq
url = uq(url,'utf-8')