Merge pull request #1569 from Jaiz909/1321-download-annotations

Added downloading annotations download support - closes #1321

3 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index e85e03fa4..c8054544a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     logtostderr:       Log messages to stderr instead of stdout.
     writedescription:  Write the video description to a .description file
     writeinfojson:     Write the video description to a .info.json file
+    writeannotations:  Write the video annotations to a .annotations.xml file
     writethumbnail:    Write the thumbnail image to a file
     writesubtitles:    Write the video subtitles to a file
     writeautomaticsub: Write the automatic subtitles to a file
@@ -258,6 +259,10 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         """ Report that the metadata file has been written """
         self.to_screen(u'[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: ' + infofn)
 
+    def report_writeannotations(self, annofn):
+        """ Report that the annotations file has been written. """
+        self.to_screen(u'[info] Writing video annotations to: ' + annofn)
+
     def report_file_already_downloaded(self, file_name):
         """Report file has already been fully downloaded."""
         try:
@@ -522,6 +527,18 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                 self.report_error(u'Cannot write description file ' + descfn)
                 return
 
+        if self.params.get('writeannotations', False):
+            try:
+               annofn = filename + u'.annotations.xml'
+               self.report_writeannotations(annofn)
+               with io.open(encodeFilename(annofn), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as annofile:
+                   annofile.write(info_dict['annotations'])
+            except (KeyError, TypeError):
+                self.report_warning(u'There are no annotations to write.')
+            except (OSError, IOError):
+                 self.report_error(u'Cannot write annotations file: ' + annofn)
+                 return
+
         subtitles_are_requested = any([self.params.get('writesubtitles', False),
                                        self.params.get('writeautomaticsub')])
 
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 3513d719f..fb1270ea2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     filesystem.add_option('--write-info-json',
             action='store_true', dest='writeinfojson',
             help='write video metadata to a .info.json file', default=False)
+    filesystem.add_option('--write-annotations',
+            action='store_true', dest='writeannotations',
+            help='write video annotations to a .annotation file', default=False)
     filesystem.add_option('--write-thumbnail',
             action='store_true', dest='writethumbnail',
             help='write thumbnail image to disk', default=False)
@@ -601,6 +604,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
         'nopart': opts.nopart,
         'updatetime': opts.updatetime,
         'writedescription': opts.writedescription,
+        'writeannotations': opts.writeannotations,
         'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
         'writethumbnail': opts.writethumbnail,
         'writesubtitles': opts.writesubtitles,
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 8222a880f..4347651d7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1250,6 +1250,10 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
             url_map[itag] = format_url
         return url_map
 
+    def _extract_annotations(self, video_id):
+        url = 'https://www.youtube.com/annotations_invideo?features=1&legacy=1&video_id=%s' % video_id
+        return self._download_webpage(url, video_id, note=u'Searching for annotations.', errnote=u'Unable to download video annotations.')
+
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract original video URL from URL with redirection, like age verification, using next_url parameter
         mobj = re.search(self._NEXT_URL_RE, url)
@@ -1382,6 +1386,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
         else:
             video_duration = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['length_seconds'][0])
 
+        # annotations
+        video_annotations = None
+        if self._downloader.params.get('writeannotations', False):
+                video_annotations = self._extract_annotations(video_id)
+
         # Decide which formats to download
 
         try:
@@ -1495,6 +1504,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
                 'subtitles':    video_subtitles,
                 'duration':     video_duration,
                 'age_limit':    18 if age_gate else 0,
+                'annotations':  video_annotations
             })
         return results