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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 · Fixed by #342
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youtube-dl: does not work with bit.ly #315

rbrito opened this issue Mar 17, 2012 · 3 comments · Fixed by #342

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rbrito commented Mar 17, 2012

Forwarding http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597797
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This looks kind of fun. URL un-shortening... On it!

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

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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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@phihag phihag closed this as completed in 6af22cf May 22, 2012
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joedborg referenced this issue in joedborg/youtube-dl Nov 17, 2020
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Merge pull request #315 from ytdl-org/master
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[pull] master from ytdl-org:master
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Re-organized code and a lot of other stuff. FiloSottile/youtube-dl
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