Use get_video_info to work around captcha problems (fixes issue #31)
authorRicardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Sat, 8 Aug 2009 12:56:06 +0000 (14:56 +0200)
committerRicardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:24:44 +0000 (11:24 +0100)
youtube-dl

index 1dfd355566adc90625480dcefdc9fc628a539109..65781f95983f46c952e3badbe9c2c445686832ad 100755 (executable)
@@ -559,9 +559,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                """Report attempt to confirm age."""
                self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] Confirming age')
        
-       def report_webpage_download(self, video_id):
-               """Report attempt to download webpage."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video webpage' % video_id)
+       def report_video_info_webpage_download(self, video_id):
+               """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
+               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video info webpage' % video_id)
        
        def report_information_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report attempt to extract video information."""
@@ -667,42 +667,51 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        # Extension
                        video_extension = self._video_extensions.get(format_param, 'flv')
 
-                       # Normalize URL, including format
-                       normalized_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en' % video_id
-                       if format_param is not None:
-                               normalized_url = '%s&fmt=%s' % (normalized_url, format_param)
-                       request = urllib2.Request(normalized_url, None, std_headers)
+                       # 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
+                       request = urllib2.Request(video_info_url, None, std_headers)
                        try:
-                               self.report_webpage_download(video_id)
-                               video_webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                               self.report_video_info_webpage_download(video_id)
+                               video_info_webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                        except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: %s' % str(err))
                                return
                        self.report_information_extraction(video_id)
-                       
+
                        # "t" param
-                       mobj = re.search(r', "t": "([^"]+)"', video_webpage)
+                       mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&token=([^&]+)(?:&|$)', video_info_webpage)
                        if mobj is None:
-                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract "t" parameter')
+                               # Attempt to see if YouTube has issued an error message
+                               mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&reason=([^&]+)(?:&|$)', video_info_webpage)
+                               if mobj is None:
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract "t" parameter for unknown reason')
+                                       stream = open('reportme-ydl-%s.dat' % time.time(), 'wb')
+                                       stream.write(video_info_webpage)
+                                       stream.close()
+                               else:
+                                       reason = urllib.unquote_plus(mobj.group(1))
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: YouTube said: %s' % reason.decode('utf-8'))
                                return
-                       video_real_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=%s&t=%s&el=detailpage&ps=' % (video_id, mobj.group(1))
+                       token = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
+                       video_real_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=%s&t=%s&eurl=&el=detailpage&ps=default&gl=US&hl=en' % (video_id, token)
                        if format_param is not None:
                                video_real_url = '%s&fmt=%s' % (video_real_url, format_param)
                        self.report_video_url(video_id, video_real_url)
 
                        # uploader
-                       mobj = re.search(r"var watchUsername = '([^']+)';", video_webpage)
+                       mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&author=([^&]+)(?:&|$)', video_info_webpage)
                        if mobj is None:
                                self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname')
                                return
-                       video_uploader = mobj.group(1)
+                       video_uploader = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
 
                        # title
-                       mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>YouTube - ([^<]*)</title>', video_webpage)
+                       mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&title=([^&]+)(?:&|$)', video_info_webpage)
                        if mobj is None:
                                self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
                                return
-                       video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+                       video_title = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
+                       video_title = video_title.decode('utf-8')
                        video_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)&(.+?);', self.htmlentity_transform, video_title)
                        video_title = video_title.replace(os.sep, u'%')