Add an option to specify custom HTTP headers

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Anisse Astier 2014-03-11 16:34:05 +01:00
parent 9d840c43b5
commit 410afb2003

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@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ def _hide_login_info(opts):
general.add_option('--referer',
dest='referer', help='specify a custom referer, use if the video access is restricted to one domain',
metavar='REF', default=None)
general.add_option('--add-header',
dest='headers', help='specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon \':\'. You can use this option multiple times', action="append",
metavar='FIELD:VALUE')
general.add_option('--list-extractors',
action='store_true', dest='list_extractors',
help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle', default=False)
@ -554,6 +557,16 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
if opts.referer is not None:
std_headers['Referer'] = opts.referer
# Custom HTTP headers
if opts.headers is not None:
for h in opts.headers:
if h.find(':', 1) < 0:
parser.error(u'wrong header formatting, it should be key:value, not "%s"'%h)
key, value = h.split(':', 2)
if opts.verbose:
write_string(u'[debug] Adding header from command line option %s:%s\n'%(key, value))
std_headers[key] = value
# Dump user agent
if opts.dump_user_agent:
compat_print(std_headers['User-Agent'])