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". By default (with value "auto") youtube-dl guesses.')
+ 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.')
general.add_option(
'--ignore-config',
action='store_true',
if not parsed_url.scheme:
default_search = self._downloader.params.get('default_search')
if default_search is None:
- default_search = 'auto_warning'
+ default_search = 'error'
if default_search in ('auto', 'auto_warning'):
if '/' in url:
expected=True)
else:
self._downloader.report_warning(
- 'Falling back to youtube search for %s . Set --default-search to "auto" to suppress this warning.' % url)
+ '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':
+ raise ExtractorError(
+ ('%r is not a valid URL. '
+ 'Set --default-search "ytseach" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:%s" ) to search YouTube'
+ ) % (url, url), expected=True)
else:
assert ':' in default_search
return self.url_result(default_search + url)