From: hdclark <hdclark@ualberta.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Added support for custom user agents.
X-Git-Url: https://git.cielonegro.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea46fe2dd441a659e9748abc5727e568583bc6e7;p=youtube-dl.git

Added support for custom user agents.

Added a few simple lines to add support for the flag "--user-agent" to pass a custom string to std_header['User-Agent'].
---

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 86951840d..d457d6b82 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ def parseOpts():
 	general.add_option('--dump-user-agent',
 			action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent',
 			help='display the current browser identification', default=False)
+	general.add_option('--user-agent',
+			action='store', dest='useragent', help='specify a custom user agent')
 	general.add_option('--list-extractors',
 			action='store_true', dest='list_extractors',
 			help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle', default=False)
@@ -368,7 +370,10 @@ def _real_main():
 				jar.load()
 		except (IOError, OSError), err:
 			sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to open cookie file')
-
+	# Set user agent
+	if opts.useragent is not None:
+		std_headers['User-Agent'] = opts.useragent
+		
 	# Dump user agent
 	if opts.dump_user_agent:
 		print std_headers['User-Agent']