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| author | hdclark <hdclark@ualberta.ca> | 2012-08-22 23:40:35 -0700 |
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| committer | hdclark <hdclark@ualberta.ca> | 2012-08-22 23:40:35 -0700 |
| commit | ea46fe2dd441a659e9748abc5727e568583bc6e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6089b60bbd30ab5b3a0603e66debed85039fcbf2 | |
| parent | 9bb8dc8e42da4e47008a0acd2a1d69e00193e02d (diff) | |
Added support for custom user agents.
Added a few simple lines to add support for the flag "--user-agent" to pass a custom string to std_header['User-Agent'].
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index 86951840d..d457d6b82 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ def parseOpts(): general.add_option('--dump-user-agent', action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent', help='display the current browser identification', default=False) + general.add_option('--user-agent', + action='store', dest='useragent', help='specify a custom user agent') general.add_option('--list-extractors', action='store_true', dest='list_extractors', help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle', default=False) @@ -368,7 +370,10 @@ def _real_main(): jar.load() except (IOError, OSError), err: sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to open cookie file') - + # Set user agent + if opts.useragent is not None: + std_headers['User-Agent'] = opts.useragent + # Dump user agent if opts.dump_user_agent: print std_headers['User-Agent'] |