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Added support for custom user agents.

Added a few simple lines to add support for the flag "--user-agent" to pass a custom string to std_header['User-Agent'].
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hdclark 12 years ago
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      youtube_dl/__init__.py

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youtube_dl/__init__.py

@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ def parseOpts():
general.add_option('--dump-user-agent',
action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent',
help='display the current browser identification', default=False)
general.add_option('--user-agent',
action='store', dest='useragent', help='specify a custom user agent')
general.add_option('--list-extractors',
action='store_true', dest='list_extractors',
help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle', default=False)
@ -368,7 +370,10 @@ def _real_main():
jar.load()
except (IOError, OSError), err:
sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to open cookie file')
# Set user agent
if opts.useragent is not None:
std_headers['User-Agent'] = opts.useragent
# Dump user agent
if opts.dump_user_agent:
print std_headers['User-Agent']

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