Support XDG base directory specification

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / extractor / youtube.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 53f13b51664dbcdf3b89dacab4ba3e0c1c53ba46..23e384ba2b602b5e88992079a8150e694070221a 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -420,8 +420,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
         # Read from filesystem cache
         func_id = '%s_%s_%d' % (player_type, player_id, slen)
         assert os.path.basename(func_id) == func_id
-        cache_dir = self._downloader.params.get('cachedir',
-                                                u'~/.youtube-dl/cache')
+        xdg_cache_home = os.environ.get('XDG_CACHE_HOME')
+        if xdg_cache_home:
+            userCacheDir = os.path.join(xdg_cache_home, 'youtube-dl')
+        else:
+            userCacheDir = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.cache', 'youtube-dl')
+        cache_dir = self._downloader.params.get('cachedir', userCacheDir)
 
         cache_enabled = cache_dir is not None
         if cache_enabled: