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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2013-07-08 01:15:19 +0200
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2013-07-08 01:15:19 +0200
commitd93e4dcbb7fb68666528e251623b90d832d9cffc (patch)
tree91a26ec50b8fbf16709b1ba97fbdc597335b9e44 /youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
parent73e79f2a1be3179edd8eebf4b7b6d56fe953a4a8 (diff)
parentfc79158de2779a9f2d3fb16ddfb2878b82693b79 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:rg3/youtube-dl
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py')
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py7
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 7a2a8a4f8..e2296d153 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -473,7 +473,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
video_title = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0])
# thumbnail image
- if 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info:
+ # We try first to get a high quality image:
+ m_thumb = re.search(r'<span itemprop="thumbnail".*?href="(.*?)">',
+ video_webpage, re.DOTALL)
+ if m_thumb is not None:
+ video_thumbnail = m_thumb.group(1)
+ elif 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info:
self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to extract video thumbnail')
video_thumbnail = ''
else: # don't panic if we can't find it