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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/common.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 9627816b4..95ea3fca5 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -683,7 +683,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): def _get_login_info(self, username_option='username', password_option='password', netrc_machine=None): """ Get the login info as (username, password) - It will look in the netrc file using the _NETRC_MACHINE value + First look for the manually specified credentials using username_option + and password_option as keys in params dictionary. If no such credentials + available look in the netrc file using the netrc_machine or _NETRC_MACHINE + value. If there's no info available, return (None, None) """ if self._downloader is None: |