added an IE for Ehow videos

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/ehow.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/ehow.py
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+import re
+from ..utils import compat_urllib_parse
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+class EhowIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?ehow\.com/([^/]+)'
+    _TEST = {
+        u'url': u'http://www.break.com/video/when-girls-act-like-guys-2468056',
+        u'file': u'2468056.mp4',
+        u'md5': u'a3513fb1547fba4fb6cfac1bffc6c46b',
+        u'info_dict': {
+            u"title": u"When Girls Act Like D-Bags"
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group(1).split("_")[1]
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        video_url = self._search_regex(r'[^A-Za-z0-9]?(?:file|source)=(http[^\'"&]*)',
+            webpage, u'video URL')
+        final_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(video_url)        
+        thumbnail_url = self._search_regex(r'<meta property="og:image" content="(.+?)" />',
+            webpage, u'thumbnail URL')
+        uploader = self._search_regex(r'<meta name="uploader" content="(.+?)" />',
+            webpage, u'uploader')
+        title = self._search_regex(r'<meta property="og:title" content="(.+?)" />',
+            webpage, u'Video title').replace(' | eHow','')
+        description = self._search_regex(r'<meta property="og:description" content="(.+?)" />',
+            webpage, u'video description')
+        ext = final_url.split('.')[-1]
+        return [{
+            'id':          video_id,
+            'url':         final_url,
+            'ext':         ext,
+            'title':       title,
+            'thumbnail':   thumbnail_url,
+            'description': description,
+            'uploader':    uploader,
+        }]
+