From fa8deaf38b0d576d693a6565dcdb3b29877a4c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 02:24:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [generic] Prevent from downloading a .swf as a video

We're seeing quite a number of people who do not put a video file in the og:video field, but the player URL. Try to detect some of these and filter them out.
---
 youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 2ba86878b..5bd315051 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -831,7 +831,12 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
             m_video_type = re.findall(r'<meta.*?property="og:video:type".*?content="video/(.*?)"', webpage)
             # We only look in og:video if the MIME type is a video, don't try if it's a Flash player:
             if m_video_type is not None:
-                found = re.findall(r'<meta.*?property="og:video".*?content="(.*?)"', webpage)
+                def check_video(vurl):
+                    vpath = compat_urlparse.urlparse(vurl).path
+                    return not vpath.endswith('.swf')
+                found = list(filter(
+                    check_video,
+                    re.findall(r'<meta.*?property="og:video".*?content="(.*?)"', webpage)))
         if not found:
             # HTML5 video
             found = re.findall(r'(?s)<video[^<]*(?:>.*?<source.*?)? src="([^"]+)"', webpage)
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