[downloader/http] Add ability to pass downloader options via info dict

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

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index a072e9bc9fb94ded50d6c85de0567064683f0e83..988fc15ff2c0c0fdbb3c3ae55e72d69c09d239a3 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                                  width : height ratio as float.
                     * no_resume  The server does not support resuming the
                                  (HTTP or RTMP) download. Boolean.
+                    * downloader_options  A dictionary of downloader options as
+                                 described in FileDownloader
 
     url:            Final video URL.
     ext:            Video filename extension.
@@ -1027,7 +1029,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                     part_of_series = e.get('partOfSeries') or e.get('partOfTVSeries')
                     if isinstance(part_of_series, dict) and part_of_series.get('@type') in ('TVSeries', 'Series', 'CreativeWorkSeries'):
                         info['series'] = unescapeHTML(part_of_series.get('name'))
-                elif item_type == 'Article':
+                elif item_type in ('Article', 'NewsArticle'):
                     info.update({
                         'timestamp': parse_iso8601(e.get('datePublished')),
                         'title': unescapeHTML(e.get('headline')),