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periscope: use username instead of user_id for uploader_id? #9402
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Currently when downloading from periscope.tv,
uploader_idreports theuser_idJSON name, which is a string of random alphanumeric characters; maybe it would be more meaningful to use theusernameJSON name instead, which is the username that appears in periscope.tv URLs (and maybe this would be consistent with youtube uploader_id?)