dailymotion

[rbroderi]

Checklist

• [x ] I'm reporting a broken site support
• [x ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
• [x ] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [ x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27vr3i']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - CYGWIN_NT-10.0-18362-3.0.7-338.x86_64-x86_64-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-93562-g3e10223385, ffprobe N-93562-g3e10223385
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 474, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2018, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py", line 235, in _real_extract
    'password: "%s"' % self._downloader.params.get('videopassword') if password else None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py", line 50, in _call_api
    cookies = self._get_dailymotion_cookies()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py", line 31, in _get_dailymotion_cookies
    return self._get_cookies('https://www.dailymotion.com/')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 2831, in _get_cookies
    return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/Cookie.py", line 583, in __init__
    if input: self.load(input)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/Cookie.py", line 643, in load
    for k, v in rawdata.items():
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'items'

Description

Dailymotion was working until I updated to the 2020 version, There must be a regression with the latest code.