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+import io
+import json
+import os.path
+
+from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL, YoutubeDLHandler
+from youtube_dl.utils import (
+    compat_cookiejar,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+)
+
+# General configuration (from __init__, not very elegant...)
+jar = compat_cookiejar.CookieJar()
+cookie_processor = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
+proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
+opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
+compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
+
+PARAMETERS_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "parameters.json")
+with io.open(PARAMETERS_FILE, encoding='utf-8') as pf:
+    parameters = json.load(pf)
+
+class FakeYDL(YoutubeDL):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.result = []
+        # Different instances of the downloader can't share the same dictionary
+        # some test set the "sublang" parameter, which would break the md5 checks.
+        self.params = dict(parameters)
+    def to_screen(self, s):
+        print(s)
+    def trouble(self, s, tb=None):
+        raise Exception(s)
+    def download(self, x):
+        self.result.append(x)
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