[viewster] extract the api auth token

Closes #6406.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index d54866d1f..dc5080504 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree
 
 from ..compat import (
     compat_cookiejar,
+    compat_cookies,
     compat_HTTPError,
     compat_http_client,
     compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
+    compat_urllib_request,
     compat_urlparse,
     compat_str,
 )
@@ -1074,6 +1076,12 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
             None, '/', True, False, expire_time, '', None, None, None)
         self._downloader.cookiejar.set_cookie(cookie)
 
+    def _get_cookies(self, url):
+        """ Return a compat_cookies.SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
+        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
+        self._downloader.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(req)
+        return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
+
     def get_testcases(self, include_onlymatching=False):
         t = getattr(self, '_TEST', None)
         if t: