diff --git a/src/you_get/common.py b/src/you_get/common.py
index b78ae0e3..ceb07646 100644
--- a/src/you_get/common.py
+++ b/src/you_get/common.py
@@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ def parse_query_param(url, param):
         The value of the parameter.
     """
     
-    return parse.parse_qs(parse.urlparse(url).query)[param][0]
+    try:
+        return parse.parse_qs(parse.urlparse(url).query)[param][0]
+    except:
+        return None
 
 def unicodize(text):
     return re.sub(r'\\u([0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f])', lambda x: chr(int(x.group(0)[2:], 16)), text)
diff --git a/src/you_get/extractor/youtube.py b/src/you_get/extractor/youtube.py
index 1b766cc2..96f6987b 100644
--- a/src/you_get/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/src/you_get/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ def youtube_download(url, output_dir='.', merge=True, info_only=False):
     """Downloads YouTube videos by URL.
     """
     
-    id = match1(url, r'youtu.be/([^/]+)') or parse_query_param(url, 'v')
+    id = match1(url, r'youtu.be/([^/]+)') or \
+        parse_query_param(url, 'v') or \
+        parse_query_param(parse_query_param(url, 'u'), 'v')
     assert id
     
     youtube_download_by_id(id, title=None, output_dir=output_dir, merge=merge, info_only=info_only)
diff --git a/tests/test.py b/tests/test.py
index 452fbcd8..9ecf4d68 100644
--- a/tests/test.py
+++ b/tests/test.py
@@ -38,4 +38,5 @@ class YouGetTests(unittest.TestCase):
         test_urls([
             "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzKerr0JIPA",
             "http://youtu.be/pzKerr0JIPA",
+            "http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v%3DldAKIzq7bvs%26feature%3Dshare"
         ])