All Cliphunter downloads failing - ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error unknown url type: httus>

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All Cliphunter downloads are failing with the error unknown url type : httus.

urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: httus>

Attempting to download using the httus protocol, which obvious errors out.

[debug] Invoking downloader on 'httus://cem3.cnduhumtvs.coa/aopdvs/aob/33095/3309586_u540.au4

Full verbose output.

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.cliphunter.com/w/3280890/Mandy_knows_what_her_friend_needs
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.cliphunter.com/w/3280890/Mandy_knows_what_her_friend_needs']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.10.29
[debug] Python version 3.7.1 (CPython) - Linux-4.18.16-2-MANJARO-x86_64-with-arch-Manjaro-Linux
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.0.3, ffprobe n4.0.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[cliphunter] 3280890: Downloading webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'httus://cem3.cnduhumtvs.coa/aopdvs/aob/33103/3310385_u540.au4?kvl/hro6GoaSUIEUWbXFUbMtkEdDI3GutuJ3_JnwSKsMJDQIHuaOn4CPZsG0F7lGnTf0O1VwPEo0NwZ2tcGhk8dJ5fBUL1Qs5F2uiXIhJrF53GROkt5CZnn_d-HOX4um8DroZH_fJFWb31uEZT8N55UtcNhlloYaUJG8Gk-v0l6EtH4SCDPrbs4ftSX1X5towt6J.ss/1996'
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error unknown url type: httus>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1908, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1847, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 364, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 341, in real_download
    establish_connection()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 548, in _open
    'unknown_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1387, in unknown_open
    raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: httus>

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All Cliphunter downloads have recently started failing.

urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: httus>