dailymotion - ERROR: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'items'

[WoodpeckerBaby]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

youtube-dl https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tdzxy -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--cookies', u'/Users/redacted/.config/youtube-dl/cookies.txt', u'--download-archive', u'archive.txt', u'--user-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36', u'--max-sleep-interval', u'15', u'--min-sleep-interval', u'1', u'--skip-unavailable-fragments', u'--external-downloader', u'aria2c', u'--http-chunk-size', u'10M', u'--ffmpeg-location', u'/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg', u'--add-metadata', u'--embed-thumbnail', u'--xattrs', u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'--embed-subs', u'--audio-quality', u'0', u'--console-title', u'--ignore-errors', u'--retries', u'99', u'--fragment-retries', u'99', u'-f', u'bestvideo[vcodec!^=av01]+bestaudio']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tdzxy', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-19.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'items'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 529, in extract
    self.initialize()
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in initialize
    self._real_initialize()
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py", line 43, in _real_initialize
    cookies = self._get_dailymotion_cookies()
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py", line 31, in _get_dailymotion_cookies
    return self._get_cookies('https://www.dailymotion.com/')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 2856, in _get_cookies
    return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/Cookie.py", line 583, in __init__
    if input: self.load(input)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/Cookie.py", line 643, in load
    for k, v in rawdata.items():
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'items'

Description

This happens on every dailymotion video I try to download, this is not unique to this particular video. Youtube works just fine.

Python version

$ python3 --version
Python 3.8.3
$ python --version
Python 2.7.16

[WoodpeckerBaby]

I found a solution --ignore-config solves the problem.

The cookies I set for YouTube is also used against dailymotion, which is an unexpected.

I hope there is an easier way to define cookies and other site-specific variables in the config file.