From d494389821de832874dc78abc2fe16365b5fe815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
<jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 20:16:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Option '--load-info': if the download fails, try extracting
the info with the 'webpage_url' field of the info dict
The video url may have expired.
---
youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 80c056dc8..77339dddf 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -816,7 +816,16 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
with open(info_filename, 'r') as f:
# TODO: Check for errors
info = json.load(f)
- self.process_ie_result(info, download=True)
+ try:
+ self.process_ie_result(info, download=True)
+ except DownloadError:
+ webpage_url = info.get('webpage_url')
+ if webpage_url is not None:
+ self.report_warning(u'The info failed to download, trying with "%s"' % webpage_url)
+ return self.download([webpage_url])
+ else:
+ raise
+ return self._download_retcode
def post_process(self, filename, ie_info):
"""Run all the postprocessors on the given file."""