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diff --git a/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs b/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs
index 4a820cede..071ab1e93 100644
--- a/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs
+++ b/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ module Annex.YoutubeDl where
import Annex.Common
import qualified Annex
import Annex.Content
+import Annex.Url
import Utility.Url (URLString)
import Utility.DiskFree
+import Utility.HtmlDetect
import Logs.Transfer
-- Runs youtube-dl in a work directory, to download a single media file
@@ -108,10 +110,19 @@ youtubeDlSupported :: URLString -> Annex Bool
youtubeDlSupported url = either (const False) id <$> youtubeDlCheck url
-- Check if youtube-dl can find media in an url.
+--
+-- youtube-dl supports downloading urls that are not html pages,
+-- but we don't want to use it for such urls, since they can be downloaded
+-- without it. So, this first downloads part of the content and checks
+-- if it's a html page; only then is youtube-dl used.
youtubeDlCheck :: URLString -> Annex (Either String Bool)
youtubeDlCheck url = catchMsgIO $ do
- opts <- youtubeDlOpts [ Param url, Param "--simulate" ]
- liftIO $ snd <$> processTranscript "youtube-dl" (toCommand opts) Nothing
+ uo <- getUrlOptions
+ liftIO (downloadPartial url uo htmlPrefixLength) >>= \case
+ Just bs | isHtmlBs bs -> do
+ opts <- youtubeDlOpts [ Param url, Param "--simulate" ]
+ liftIO $ snd <$> processTranscript "youtube-dl" (toCommand opts) Nothing
+ _ -> return False
-- Ask youtube-dl for the filename of media in an url.
--