generic extractor cognito idp - import library

[wernerkarlheisenberg]

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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I updating the extractor for VIER. Authentication part is no longer working as the website moved to AWS Cognito IDP for authentication. I want create a general extractor for Cognito IDP (I'm assuming that other sites will also start using the platform for authentication in the future.). There is a very neat python library (warrant) that already has support for Cognito IDP, so rather than reinventing the wheel, I would like to import that package (which will generate a new dependency.). Would that be allowed?

[yan12125]

For this case, +1 for using warrant. It depends on AWS SDK boto3, and I don't think anyone wants to reimplement that.

An issue is that youtube-dl for Windows is built against Python 3.4 for supporting Windows XP (#10014), and looks like it doesn't explicitly state support for 3.4:

https://github.com/capless/warrant/blob/ff2e4793d8479e770f2461ef7cbc0c15ee784395/setup.py#L20

[wernerkarlheisenberg]

I did a quick test on my MacBook using python 3.4.7 and it worked without any problem. So my conclusion is that for Cognitto IDP, python 3.4 is sufficient.