From 1df2596f81695bf452ffbfd89596d115d9b2daf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Remita Amine Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 07:54:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [extractor/common] fix _get_cookies method for python 2(#20673, #23256, #20326, closes #28640) --- youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index d3b6724df..fcbf18ee6 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -2899,7 +2899,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): """ Return a compat_cookies.SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """ req = sanitized_Request(url) self._downloader.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(req) - return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie')) + cookie = req.get_header('Cookie') + if cookie and sys.version_info[0] == 2: + cookie = str(cookie) + return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(cookie) def _apply_first_set_cookie_header(self, url_handle, cookie): """