diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/streamcz.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/streamcz.py
index 179bdcaba..060ba32e0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/streamcz.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/streamcz.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import json
 import re