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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index da50abfc1..52c4483c9 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
uploader_id: Nickname or id of the video uploader.
location: Physical location of the video.
player_url: SWF Player URL (used for rtmpdump).
- subtitles: The subtitle file contents.
+ subtitles: The subtitle file contents as a dictionary in the format
+ {language: subtitles}.
view_count: How many users have watched the video on the platform.
urlhandle: [internal] The urlHandle to be used to download the file,
like returned by urllib.request.urlopen
@@ -77,7 +78,13 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
@classmethod
def suitable(cls, url):
"""Receives a URL and returns True if suitable for this IE."""
- return re.match(cls._VALID_URL, url) is not None
+
+ # This does not use has/getattr intentionally - we want to know whether
+ # we have cached the regexp for *this* class, whereas getattr would also
+ # match the superclass
+ if '_VALID_URL_RE' not in cls.__dict__:
+ cls._VALID_URL_RE = re.compile(cls._VALID_URL)
+ return cls._VALID_URL_RE.match(url) is not None
@classmethod
def working(cls):