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youtube-dl: does not work with bit.ly #315

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rbrito opened this issue Mar 17, 2012 · 3 comments
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youtube-dl: does not work with bit.ly #315

rbrito opened this issue Mar 17, 2012 · 3 comments

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@rbrito rbrito commented Mar 17, 2012

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@FiloSottile FiloSottile commented Mar 17, 2012

This looks kind of fun. URL un-shortening... On it!

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@FiloSottile FiloSottile commented Mar 18, 2012

Actually it might be more sensible to simply follow redirects as the first step

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@FiloSottile FiloSottile commented Mar 18, 2012

Added support for redirects! Before using our last resort, GenericIE, youtube-dl will check if the url is a redirect, like shortened urls, (using HEAD requests if possible, fallbacking on GET) and in case restart chain.
That way it will not slow down the most of our use-cases but it will work with any redirect to any video. Yay!

Someone should add that to the features list.

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