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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 77a13aea5..a2986cebe 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -145,12 +145,17 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote)
content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
+ webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
m = re.match(r'[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\s*;\s*charset=(.+)', content_type)
if m:
encoding = m.group(1)
else:
- encoding = 'utf-8'
- webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
+ m = re.search(br'<meta[^>]+charset="?([^"]+)[ /">]',
+ webpage_bytes[:1024])
+ if m:
+ encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii')
+ else:
+ encoding = 'utf-8'
if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):
try:
url = url_or_request.get_full_url()