diff --git a/test/test_youtube_lists.py b/test/test_youtube_lists.py
index f9c344da1..e352e5ab9 100644
--- a/test/test_youtube_lists.py
+++ b/test/test_youtube_lists.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import sys
 import unittest
 import socket
+import json
 
 # Allow direct execution
 import os
@@ -11,6 +12,10 @@
 from youtube_dl.InfoExtractors import YoutubeUserIE,YoutubePlaylistIE
 from youtube_dl.utils import *
 
+PARAMETERS_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "parameters.json")
+with io.open(PARAMETERS_FILE, encoding='utf-8') as pf:
+    parameters = json.load(pf)
+
 # General configuration (from __init__, not very elegant...)
 jar = compat_cookiejar.CookieJar()
 cookie_processor = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
@@ -22,7 +27,7 @@
 class FakeDownloader(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.result = []
-        self.params = {}
+        self.params = parameters
     def to_screen(self, s):
         print(s)
     def trouble(self, s):
diff --git a/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py b/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..64a391d14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import unittest
+import socket
+import json
+import io
+import hashlib
+
+# Allow direct execution
+import os
+sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+from youtube_dl.InfoExtractors import YoutubeIE
+from youtube_dl.utils import *
+
+PARAMETERS_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "parameters.json")
+with io.open(PARAMETERS_FILE, encoding='utf-8') as pf:
+    parameters = json.load(pf)
+
+# General configuration (from __init__, not very elegant...)
+jar = compat_cookiejar.CookieJar()
+cookie_processor = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
+proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
+opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
+compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
+socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
+
+class FakeDownloader(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.result = []
+        self.params = parameters
+    def to_screen(self, s):
+        print(s)
+    def trouble(self, s):
+        raise Exception(s)
+    def download(self, x):
+        self.result.append(x)
+
+md5 = lambda s: hashlib.md5(s.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+
+class TestYoutubeSubtitles(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_youtube_subtitles(self):
+        DL = FakeDownloader()
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+        IE = YoutubeIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract('QRS8MkLhQmM')
+        self.assertEqual(md5(info_dict[0]['subtitles']), 'c3228550d59116f3c29fba370b55d033')
+
+    def test_youtube_subtitles_it(self):
+        DL = FakeDownloader()
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+        DL.params['subtitleslang'] = 'it'
+        IE = YoutubeIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract('QRS8MkLhQmM')
+        self.assertEqual(md5(info_dict[0]['subtitles']), '132a88a0daf8e1520f393eb58f1f646a')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()