[YoutubeDL] Don't expand env variables in meta fields (closes #13637)

diff --git a/test/test_YoutubeDL.py b/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
index 75945e38f837fc11496856180336fc2828121cca..70989e2322d93d00f7fe30dcde96b09d93ec582f 100644 (file)
--- a/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
@@ -527,6 +527,8 @@ class TestYoutubeDL(unittest.TestCase):
             'ext': 'mp4',
             'width': None,
             'height': 1080,
+            'title1': '$PATH',
+            'title2': '%PATH%',
         }
 
         def fname(templ):
@@ -545,10 +547,14 @@ class TestYoutubeDL(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(fname('%(height)0 6d.%(ext)s'), ' 01080.mp4')
         self.assertEqual(fname('%(height)0   6d.%(ext)s'), ' 01080.mp4')
         self.assertEqual(fname('%(height)   0   6d.%(ext)s'), ' 01080.mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('%%'), '%')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('%%%%'), '%%')
         self.assertEqual(fname('%%(height)06d.%(ext)s'), '%(height)06d.mp4')
         self.assertEqual(fname('%(width)06d.%(ext)s'), 'NA.mp4')
         self.assertEqual(fname('%(width)06d.%%(ext)s'), 'NA.%(ext)s')
         self.assertEqual(fname('%%(width)06d.%(ext)s'), '%(width)06d.mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('Hello %(title1)s'), 'Hello $PATH')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('Hello %(title2)s'), 'Hello %PATH%')
 
     def test_format_note(self):
         ydl = YoutubeDL()

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 60ee4b7d811419281a6d95be3da03907fd76e167..8730d32efc63e65dcc3481ee917f0f6e8f53afb8 100755 (executable)
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import re
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import socket
+import string
 import sys
 import time
 import tokenize
@@ -674,7 +675,19 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                         FORMAT_RE.format(numeric_field),
                         r'%({0})s'.format(numeric_field), outtmpl)
 
-            filename = expand_path(outtmpl % template_dict)
+            # expand_path translates '%%' into '%' and '$$' into '$'
+            # correspondingly that is not what we want since we need to keep
+            # '%%' intact for template dict substitution step. Working around
+            # with boundary-alike separator hack.
+            sep = ''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(32)])
+            outtmpl = outtmpl.replace('%%', '%{0}%'.format(sep)).replace('$$', '${0}$'.format(sep))
+
+            # outtmpl should be expand_path'ed before template dict substitution
+            # because meta fields may contain env variables we don't want to
+            # be expanded. For example, for outtmpl "%(title)s.%(ext)s" and
+            # title "Hello $PATH", we don't want `$PATH` to be expanded.
+            filename = expand_path(outtmpl).replace(sep, '') % template_dict
+
             # Temporary fix for #4787
             # 'Treat' all problem characters by passing filename through preferredencoding
             # to workaround encoding issues with subprocess on python2 @ Windows