youtube_dl/compat.py

@@ -73,15 +73,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:  # Python 2
     import Cookie as compat_cookies
 
-if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
-    class compat_SimpleCookie(compat_cookies.SimpleCookie):
-        def load(self, rawdata):
-            if isinstance(rawdata, unicode):
-                rawdata = str(rawdata)
-            return super(compat_SimpleCookie, self).load(rawdata)
-else:
-    compat_SimpleCookie = compat_cookies.SimpleCookie
-
 try:
     import html.entities as compat_html_entities
 except ImportError:  # Python 2

youtube_dl/extractor/common.py

@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ import math
 
 from ..compat import (
     compat_cookiejar_Cookie,
+    compat_cookies,
     compat_etree_Element,
     compat_etree_fromstring,
     compat_getpass,
     compat_integer_types,
     compat_http_client,
     compat_os_name,
-    compat_SimpleCookie,
     compat_str,
     compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     str_or_none,
     str_to_int,
     strip_or_none,
+    try_get,
     unescapeHTML,
     unified_strdate,
     unified_timestamp,
@@ -1275,7 +1276,6 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
         def extract_video_object(e):
             assert e['@type'] == 'VideoObject'
-            author = e.get('author')
             info.update({
                 'url': url_or_none(e.get('contentUrl')),
                 'title': unescapeHTML(e.get('name')),
@@ -1283,11 +1283,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 'thumbnail': url_or_none(e.get('thumbnailUrl') or e.get('thumbnailURL')),
                 'duration': parse_duration(e.get('duration')),
                 'timestamp': unified_timestamp(e.get('uploadDate')),
-                # author can be an instance of 'Organization' or 'Person' types.
+                'uploader': try_get(e, lambda x: x['author']['name'], compat_str),
-                # both types can have 'name' property(inherited from 'Thing' type). [1]
-                # however some websites are using 'Text' type instead.
-                # 1. https://schema.org/VideoObject
-                'uploader': author.get('name') if isinstance(author, dict) else author if isinstance(author, compat_str) else None,
                 'filesize': float_or_none(e.get('contentSize')),
                 'tbr': int_or_none(e.get('bitrate')),
                 'width': int_or_none(e.get('width')),
@@ -2901,10 +2897,13 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         self._downloader.cookiejar.set_cookie(cookie)
 
     def _get_cookies(self, url):
-        """ Return a compat_SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
+        """ Return a compat_cookies.SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
         req = sanitized_Request(url)
         self._downloader.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(req)
-        return compat_SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
+        cookie = req.get_header('Cookie')
+        if cookie and sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+            cookie = str(cookie)
+        return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(cookie)
 
     def _apply_first_set_cookie_header(self, url_handle, cookie):
         """