youtube-dl

commit bd49928f7a0254eeb8d5f918c5649ce4eb78ef36
parent 23e6d50d73188eab26944e41f164a5a1ab7f547a
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:53:50 +0100

[niconico] Clarify download

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
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6
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1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
-        # Get video webpage
-        video_webpage = self._download_webpage(
-            'http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/' + video_id, video_id)
+        # Get video webpage. We are not actually interested in it, but need
+        # the cookies in order to be able to download the info webpage
+        self._download_webpage('http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/' + video_id, video_id)
 
         video_info_webpage = self._download_webpage(
             'http://ext.nicovideo.jp/api/getthumbinfo/' + video_id, video_id,