From: Sergey M․ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:00:43 +0000 (+0700) Subject: [extractor/common] Allow calling _initialize_geo_bypass from extractors (#11970) X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e39b5d4ab83de7a466c6d4c9528d385758566b22;p=youtube-dl [extractor/common] Allow calling _initialize_geo_bypass from extractors (#11970) --- diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 1ae264722..86aff3312 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -379,12 +379,31 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): def initialize(self): """Initializes an instance (authentication, etc).""" - self.__initialize_geo_bypass() + self._initialize_geo_bypass(self._GEO_COUNTRIES) if not self._ready: self._real_initialize() self._ready = True - def __initialize_geo_bypass(self): + def _initialize_geo_bypass(self, countries): + """ + Initialize geo restriction bypass mechanism. + + This method is used to initialize geo bypass mechanism based on faking + X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. A random country from provided country list + is selected and a random IP brlonging to this country is generated. This + IP will be passed as X-Forwarded-For HTTP header in all subsequent + HTTP requests. + Method does nothing if no countries are specified. + + This method will be used for initial geo bypass mechanism initialization + during the instance initialization with _GEO_COUNTRIES. + + You may also manually call it from extractor's code if geo countries + information is not available beforehand (e.g. obtained during + extraction) or due to some another reason. + """ + if not countries: + return if not self._x_forwarded_for_ip: country_code = self._downloader.params.get('geo_bypass_country', None) # If there is no explicit country for geo bypass specified and @@ -393,8 +412,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): if (not country_code and self._GEO_BYPASS and self._downloader.params.get('geo_bypass', True) and - self._GEO_COUNTRIES): - country_code = random.choice(self._GEO_COUNTRIES) + countries): + country_code = random.choice(countries) if country_code: self._x_forwarded_for_ip = GeoUtils.random_ipv4(country_code) if self._downloader.params.get('verbose', False):