From 30a453884e6a4d228ced4cdddcfa8e79a768755a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: remitamine <remitamine@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:41:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [viewster] use head request to extract api token
Closes #6419.
---
youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py
index 65324d903..cda02ba24 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from ..utils import (
determine_ext,
int_or_none,
parse_iso8601,
+ HEADRequest,
)
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ class ViewsterIE(InfoExtractor):
def _real_extract(self, url):
video_id = self._match_id(url)
# Get 'api_token' cookie
- self._request_webpage(url, video_id)
+ self._request_webpage(HEADRequest(url), video_id)
cookies = self._get_cookies(url)
self._AUTH_TOKEN = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(cookies['api_token'].value)