youtube-dl

commit: e2dce5378191e315ad86785aac7e786c86a1a121
parent 1770ed9e86a147eceb86210dec0aefcf0d94ab52
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:39:26 +0200

[youtube] Always request webpage in English (Fixes #3844)

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
4
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1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -655,7 +655,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
 
         # Get video webpage
         url = proto + '://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1' % video_id
-        video_webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
+        req.add_header('Cookie', 'PREF=hl=en')
+        video_webpage = self._download_webpage(req, video_id)
 
         # Attempt to extract SWF player URL
         mobj = re.search(r'swfConfig.*?"(https?:\\/\\/.*?watch.*?-.*?\.swf)"', video_webpage)