Request video info webpage using "embedded" instead of "detailpage"
authorRicardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:46:00 +0000 (20:46 +0200)
committerRicardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:26:48 +0000 (11:26 +0100)
In the request for get_video_info, use el=embedded instead of el=detailpage, as
if the request was coming from an embedded video player instead of the video
webpage. This created problems for some videos, with YouTube replying with
"Invalid parameters". This fixes issue #109 and fixes issue #110.

youtube-dl

index 5afd7ebc2f441209f3160062bb9be4ea632e7ff3..167fefcc0128f0a39daffec7c5de6cf5be09a1ba 100755 (executable)
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        video_extension = self._video_extensions.get(format_param, 'flv')
 
                        # Get video info
-                       video_info_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=%s&el=detailpage&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en' % video_id
+                       video_info_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=%s&el=embedded&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en' % video_id
                        request = urllib2.Request(video_info_url, None, std_headers)
                        try:
                                self.report_video_info_webpage_download(video_id)