From 1186e3f91ab940017be263c65c27b821992e58cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: remitamine <remitamine@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:45:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] do not capture a group

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/howstuffworks.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/howstuffworks.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/howstuffworks.py
index c9b6579a64..cc931d5711 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/howstuffworks.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/howstuffworks.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from ..utils import (
 
 
 class HowStuffWorksIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://[\da-z-]+\.howstuffworks\.com/(?:[^/]+/)*(\d+-)*(?P<id>.+?)-video\.htm'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://[\da-z-]+\.howstuffworks\.com/(?:[^/]+/)*(?:\d+-)?(?P<id>.+?)-video\.htm'
     _TESTS = [
         {
             'url': 'http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/5266-cool-jobs-iditarod-musher-video.htm',