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periscope: add support for urls containing username instead of "w" #7503
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Post an example URL. |
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Moreover this patch breaks https://www.periscope.tv/w/STREAM-ID URLs. |
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At the moment this kind of url is supported:
https://www.periscope.tv/w/STREAM-ID
But if you browse the periscope website, you sometimes find urls like:
https://www.periscope.tv/USERNAME/STREAM-ID
i.e. with the periscope user's username replacing the "w" character.
This second kind of url works fine in web browsers, but it's not accepted by youtube-dl:
ERROR: Unsupported URL
I'm attaching a patch for youtube_dl/extractor/periscope.py to allow this kind of urls.
The regexp I added requires at least two characters (that's the only requirement about periscope usernames I found on help.periscope.tv), and excludes the same characters forbidden in stream id's.
periscope.py.txt