general.add_option(
'--default-search',
dest='default_search', metavar='PREFIX',
- help='Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for youtube-dl "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let youtube-dl guess. The default value "error" just throws an error.')
+ help='Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for youtube-dl "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching.')
general.add_option(
'--ignore-config',
action='store_true',
date = DateRange.day(opts.date)
else:
date = DateRange(opts.dateafter, opts.datebefore)
- if opts.default_search not in ('auto', 'auto_warning', None) and ':' not in opts.default_search:
+ if opts.default_search not in ('auto', 'auto_warning', 'error', 'fixup_error', None) and ':' not in opts.default_search:
parser.error(u'--default-search invalid; did you forget a colon (:) at the end?')
# Do not download videos when there are audio-only formats
if not parsed_url.scheme:
default_search = self._downloader.params.get('default_search')
if default_search is None:
- default_search = 'error'
+ default_search = 'fixup_error'
- if default_search in ('auto', 'auto_warning'):
+ if default_search in ('auto', 'auto_warning', 'fixup_error'):
if '/' in url:
self._downloader.report_warning('The url doesn\'t specify the protocol, trying with http')
return self.url_result('http://' + url)
- else:
+ elif default_search != 'fixup_error':
if default_search == 'auto_warning':
if re.match(r'^(?:url|URL)$', url):
raise ExtractorError(
self._downloader.report_warning(
'Falling back to youtube search for %s . Set --default-search "auto" to suppress this warning.' % url)
return self.url_result('ytsearch:' + url)
- elif default_search == 'error':
+
+ if default_search in ('error', 'fixup_error'):
raise ExtractorError(
('%r is not a valid URL. '
'Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:%s" ) to search YouTube'