From 8bfb6723cb5bd9cb7a4c843e12688b26ab14d17a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elias Probst <mail@eliasprobst.eu>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 01:00:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Extract the base_url for the XML download from the JS
snippet's 'server' variable.
---
youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py
index 94346daf6..87f1ee694 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ class SpiegelIE(InfoExtractor):
video_title = self._html_search_regex(
r'<div class="module-title">(.*?)</div>', webpage, 'title')
- xml_url = 'http://video2.spiegel.de/flash/' + video_id + '.xml'
+ base_url = self._search_regex(
+ r'var\s+server\s+=\s+\"(http://video\d*\.spiegel\.de/flash/\d+/\d+/)\";',
+ webpage,
+ 'base_url',
+ )
+
+ xml_url = base_url + video_id + '.xml'
idoc = self._download_xml(
xml_url, video_id,
note='Downloading XML', errnote='Failed to download XML from "{0}"'.format(xml_url))