Bubble up all the stack of exceptions and retry download tests on timeout errors

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 95bd94843..88d4ece13 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ class ExtractorError(Exception):
         """ tb, if given, is the original traceback (so that it can be printed out). """
         super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
         self.traceback = tb
+        self.exc_info = sys.exc_info()  # preserve original exception
 
     def format_traceback(self):
         if self.traceback is None:
@@ -449,7 +450,10 @@ class DownloadError(Exception):
     configured to continue on errors. They will contain the appropriate
     error message.
     """
-    pass
+    def __init__(self, msg, exc_info=None):
+        """ exc_info, if given, is the original exception that caused the trouble (as returned by sys.exc_info()). """
+        super(DownloadError, self).__init__(msg)
+        self.exc_info = exc_info
 
 
 class SameFileError(Exception):