[viewster] extract the api auth token

Closes #6406.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 0c57c7aeb..e4b9286c0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ except ImportError:  # Python 2
     import cookielib as compat_cookiejar
 
 try:
+    import http.cookies as compat_cookies
+except ImportError:  # Python 2
+    import Cookie as compat_cookies
+
+try:
     import html.entities as compat_html_entities
 except ImportError:  # Python 2
     import htmlentitydefs as compat_html_entities
@@ -436,6 +441,7 @@ __all__ = [
     'compat_basestring',
     'compat_chr',
     'compat_cookiejar',
+    'compat_cookies',
     'compat_expanduser',
     'compat_get_terminal_size',
     'compat_getenv',