From 89ea063eebae84792a7ccb968533ff8bf6a41d56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 22:49:23 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [youtube] Clarify rationale for preferring a video info with
token (#7362)
---
youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 5eeb3c6633..e2a43299fe 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1107,6 +1107,15 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
if not video_info:
video_info = get_video_info
if 'token' in get_video_info:
+ # Different get_video_info requests may report different results, e.g.
+ # some may report video unavailability, but some may serve it without
+ # any complaint (see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7362,
+ # the original webpage as well as el=info and el=embedded get_video_info
+ # requests report video unavailability due to geo restriction while
+ # el=detailpage succeeds and returns valid data). This is probably
+ # due to YouTube measures against IP ranges of hosting providers.
+ # Working around by preferring the first succeeded video_info containing
+ # the token if no such video_info yet was found.
if 'token' not in video_info:
video_info = get_video_info
break