From 2ce014ade4104a748b7a6a0ada19fcab1460e832 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tristan Lee <tristan@bellingcat.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 01:45:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed edge case for videos that have data-link-attr but no
 href attribute

---
 snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py b/snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py
index ea33b44..3193abe 100644
--- a/snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py
@@ -177,11 +177,15 @@ class VKontakteUserScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 					continue
 				if 'data-video' in a.attrs:
 					# Video
+					if 'data-link-attr' in a.attrs:
+						hrefUrl = urllib.parse.unquote(a.attrs['data-link-attr'].split('to=')[1].split('&')[0])
+					else:
+						hrefUrl = f'https://vk.com{a["href"]}'
 					video = Video(
 						id = a['data-video'],
 						list = a['data-list'],
 						duration = int(a['data-duration']),
-						url = f'https://vk.com{a["href"]}',
+						url = hrefUrl,
 						thumbUrl = a['style'][(begin := a['style'].find('background-image: url(') + 22) : a['style'].find(')', begin)],
 					)
 					continue