diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/common.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 2a5e8076c..0ec365eaa 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ import base64 +import json import os import re import socket @@ -260,6 +261,15 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): xml_string = transform_source(xml_string) return xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string.encode('utf-8')) + def _download_json(self, url_or_request, video_id, + note=u'Downloading JSON metadata', + errnote=u'Unable to download JSON metadata'): + json_string = self._download_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote) + try: + return json.loads(json_string) + except ValueError as ve: + raise ExtractorError('Failed to download JSON', cause=ve) + def report_warning(self, msg, video_id=None): idstr = u'' if video_id is None else u'%s: ' % video_id self._downloader.report_warning( |