Is there a standard already in use to smuggle season/episode information around?

[mshiels]

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Basically I am trying to figure out how to get information down into say the brightcove code from the layers above it. Basically the ACorntv.py which I am not sure even where I got it originally now. But it just builds a brightcove url and I added i think the smuggling of extra infomration down to brightcover - but it's not really standard behaviour.

SO I am hoping there is something I can examine/digest that does deal with this cleanly.

                entries.append(smuggle_url( 'http://players.brightcove.net/3047407010001/default_default/index.html?videoId=%s' % video_id[0],
                                            { 'title': title[0],
                                              'episode_number': episode[0],
                                              'series': series[0],
                                              'season_number': season[0] } ))

anyone with info would be appreciated greatly!!

[dstftw]

youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py

Lines 357 to 362 in 049c048

	_type "url_transparent" entities have the same specification as "url", but
	indicate that the given additional information is more precise than the one
	associated with the resolved URL.
	This is useful when a site employs a video service that hosts the video and
	its technical metadata, but that video service does not embed a useful
	title, description etc.

[mshiels]

thanks! I'll dig and see what others have used that for, appreciate the help!!