diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 392ad36486..fc1bf2b6e2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Sometimes embedded video player is hidden behind percent encoding
         # (e.g. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2448)
         # Unescaping the whole page allows to handle those cases in a generic way
-        webpage = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(webpage)
+        webpage = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(webpage)
 
         # it's tempting to parse this further, but you would
         # have to take into account all the variations like