From 410afb2003f48df92720da7d4ea37560692138a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anisse Astier Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:34:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add an option to specify custom HTTP headers --- youtube_dl/__init__.py | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index 0e9504c14..470acf3ef 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): 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'])