openload.co hotlinking detection

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v https://openload.co/f/kUEfGclsU9o
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://openload.co/f/kUEfGclsU9o']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.06.03
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Linux-4.5.4-gnu-1-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.2, ffprobe 3.0.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Openload] kUEfGclsU9o: Downloading webpage
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://openload.co/stream/famBaQI9BRQ~1465252297~2602:306::~t47S-POR?mime=true'
[download] Destination: skyrim_no-audio_1080.mp4-kUEfGclsU9o.mp4
[download] 100% of 31.86MiB in 05:26

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

openload.co no longer seeks to allow hotlinking and will redirect you to videos of pigeons instead of the video inputted to youtube-dl. This occurs on the latest version. Happens on both links like https://openload.co/f/kUEfGclsU9o and https://openload.co/embed/kUEfGclsU9o. I’m not familiar with the way the download link is returned, but it seems a solution would involve changing the method of requesting or returning the link.

[yan12125]

Things look good now. Will merge the fix into master soon.

[yokrysty]

openload video link extraction script http://pastebin.com/FXNsY6cv credits goes to all of you here