Extraction: Fix url prefixing

2019-09-08 17:20:02 -07:00
parent 1b6fb4e100
commit fb1a3531c5
3 changed files with 19 additions and 8 deletions
--- a/youtube/util.py
+++ b/youtube/util.py
@@ -317,3 +317,7 @@ def uppercase_escape(s):
     return re.sub(
         r'\\U([0-9a-fA-F]{8})',
         lambda m: chr(int(m.group(1), base=16)), s)
+
+def prefix_url(url):
+    url = url.lstrip('/')     # some urls have // before them, which has a special meaning
+    return '/' + url