YoutubeIE: reuse instances of InfoExtractors (closes #998)

When a IE is added to the list, it's also added to a dictionary. When a IE is requested it first looks in the dictionary and if there's no instance it will create a new one.

That way _real_initialize is only called once for each IE, saving time if it needs to login for example.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 1d98222ce..236c7b12c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         """Real extraction process. Redefine in subclasses."""
         pass
 
+    @classmethod
+    def ie_key(cls):
+        """A string for getting the InfoExtractor with get_info_extractor"""
+        return cls.__name__[:-2]
+
     @property
     def IE_NAME(self):
         return type(self).__name__[:-2]