_VALID_URL = r'^https?://(?:www\.|secure\.)?nicovideo\.jp/watch/([a-z][a-z][0-9]+)(?:.*)$'
_NETRC_MACHINE = 'niconico'
+ # Determine whether the downloader uses authentication to download video
+ _AUTHENTICATE = False
def _real_initialize(self):
- self._login()
+ if self._downloader.params.get('username', None) is not None:
+ self._AUTHENTICATE = True
+
+ if self._AUTHENTICATE:
+ self._login()
def _login(self):
(username, password) = self._get_login_info()
- if username is None:
- # Login is required
- raise ExtractorError('No login info available, needed for using %s.' % self.IE_NAME, expected=True)
# Log in
login_form_strs = {
'http://ext.nicovideo.jp/api/getthumbinfo/' + video_id, video_id,
note='Downloading video info page')
- # Get flv info
- flv_info_webpage = self._download_webpage(
- 'http://flapi.nicovideo.jp/api/getflv?v=' + video_id,
- video_id, 'Downloading flv info')
+ if self._AUTHENTICATE:
+ # Get flv info
+ flv_info_webpage = self._download_webpage(
+ 'http://flapi.nicovideo.jp/api/getflv?v=' + video_id,
+ video_id, 'Downloading flv info')
+ else:
+ # Get external player info
+ ext_player_info = self._download_webpage(
+ 'http://ext.nicovideo.jp/thumb_watch/' + video_id, video_id)
+ thumb_play_key = self._search_regex(
+ r'\'thumbPlayKey\'\s*:\s*\'(.*?)\'', ext_player_info, 'thumbPlayKey')
+
+ # Get flv info
+ flv_info_data = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({
+ 'k': thumb_play_key,
+ 'v': video_id
+ })
+ flv_info_request = compat_urllib_request.Request(
+ 'http://ext.nicovideo.jp/thumb_watch', flv_info_data,
+ {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
+ flv_info_webpage = self._download_webpage(
+ flv_info_request, video_id,
+ note='Downloading flv info', errnote='Unable to download flv info')
+
video_real_url = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(flv_info_webpage)['url'][0]
# Start extracting information