From 9585f890f8c0eff70eb874c7962dc30baea1049c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:56:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [generic] add support for relative URLs (Fixes #1308)
---
youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index ccbbdd255..8488dca05 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1))
if video_url.startswith('//'):
video_url = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url).scheme + ':' + video_url
+ if '://' not in video_url:
+ video_url = url + ('' if url.endswith('/') else '/') + video_url
video_id = os.path.basename(video_url)
# here's a fun little line of code for you: