[viewster] use head request to extract api token

Closes #6419.
9 years ago · 30a453884e
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/viewster.py
@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from ..utils import (
    determine_ext,
    int_or_none,
    parse_iso8601,
+    HEADRequest,
 )


@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ class ViewsterIE(InfoExtractor):
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        video_id = self._match_id(url)
        # Get 'api_token' cookie
-        self._request_webpage(url, video_id)
+        self._request_webpage(HEADRequest(url), video_id)
        cookies = self._get_cookies(url)
        self._AUTH_TOKEN = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(cookies['api_token'].value)