diff --git a/brozzler/worker.py b/brozzler/worker.py
index 69ac7d7..3894607 100644
--- a/brozzler/worker.py
+++ b/brozzler/worker.py
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
         if enable_youtube_dl and ydl.should_ytdlp(page, site):
             try:
                 ydl_outlinks = ydl.do_youtube_dl(self, site, page)
+                outlinks.update(ydl_outlinks)
             except brozzler.ReachedLimit as e:
                 raise
             except brozzler.ShutdownRequested:
@@ -278,8 +279,6 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
                     self.logger.error(
                         "youtube_dl raised exception on %s", page, exc_info=True
                     )
-
-        outlinks.update(ydl_outlinks)
         return outlinks
 
     def _browse_page(self, browser, site, page, on_screenshot=None, on_request=None):
diff --git a/brozzler/ydl.py b/brozzler/ydl.py
index 471300d..13b719f 100644
--- a/brozzler/ydl.py
+++ b/brozzler/ydl.py
@@ -378,8 +378,9 @@ def _remember_videos(page, fetches, pushed_videos=None):
 
 
 def _try_youtube_dl(worker, ydl, site, page):
+    ytdlp_url = page.redirect_url if page.redirect_url else page.url
     try:
-        logging.info("trying yt-dlp on %s", page)
+        logging.info("trying yt-dlp on %s", ytdlp_url)
 
         with brozzler.thread_accept_exceptions():
             # we do whatwg canonicalization here to avoid "<urlopen error
@@ -387,7 +388,7 @@ def _try_youtube_dl(worker, ydl, site, page):
             # needs automated test
             # and yt-dlp needs sanitize_info for extract_info
             ie_result = ydl.sanitize_info(
-                ydl.extract_info(str(urlcanon.whatwg(page.url)))
+                ydl.extract_info(str(urlcanon.whatwg(ytdlp_url)))
             )
         _remember_videos(page, ydl.fetch_spy.fetches, ydl.pushed_videos)
         if worker._using_warcprox(site):
@@ -395,11 +396,11 @@ def _try_youtube_dl(worker, ydl, site, page):
             logging.info(
                 "sending WARCPROX_WRITE_RECORD request to warcprox "
                 "with yt-dlp json for %s",
-                page,
+                ytdlp_url,
             )
             worker._warcprox_write_record(
                 warcprox_address=worker._proxy_for(site),
-                url="youtube-dl:%s" % str(urlcanon.semantic(page.url)),
+                url="youtube-dl:%s" % str(urlcanon.semantic(ytdlp_url)),
                 warc_type="metadata",
                 content_type="application/vnd.youtube-dl_formats+json;charset=utf-8",
                 payload=info_json.encode("utf-8"),
@@ -425,7 +426,7 @@ def _try_youtube_dl(worker, ydl, site, page):
         ):
             # connection problem when using a proxy == proxy error (XXX?)
             raise brozzler.ProxyError(
-                "yt-dlp hit apparent proxy error from " "%s" % page.url
+                "yt-dlp hit apparent proxy error from " "%s" % ytdlp_url
             ) from e
         else:
             raise