From f1927d71e4b0cd515324071f8d97bcd673fcc9bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juan Carlos Garcia Segovia Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:24:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some blip.tv URLs use Unicode characters. urllib2 breaks when passing a Unicode string. it needs a UTF-8 byte buffer --- youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py index 40f96ad76..099f511ce 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py +++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py @@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor): else: cchar = '?' json_url = url + cchar + 'skin=json&version=2&no_wrap=1' - request = urllib2.Request(json_url) + request = urllib2.Request(json_url.encode('utf-8')) self.report_extraction(mobj.group(1)) info = None try: