urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote)
content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
+ webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
m = re.match(r'[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\s*;\s*charset=(.+)', content_type)
if m:
encoding = m.group(1)
else:
- encoding = 'utf-8'
- webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
+ m = re.search(br'<meta[^>]+charset=[\'"]?([^\'")]+)[ /\'">]',
+ webpage_bytes[:1024])
+ if m:
+ encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii')
+ else:
+ encoding = 'utf-8'
if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):
try:
url = url_or_request.get_full_url()