X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/.gitweb.cgi/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/15b1d10671b48df598afd70e17ba21e9e64ac766..4af078afdfeb5a7f230d6e445b1d1e7eefd04704:/youtube_dl/utils.py?ds=inline
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 4d3cbac..e84d35d 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1,28 +1,32 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# coding: utf-8
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import base64
+import binascii
 import calendar
 import codecs
 import contextlib
 import ctypes
 import datetime
 import email.utils
+import email.header
 import errno
+import functools
 import gzip
-import itertools
 import io
+import itertools
 import json
 import locale
 import math
+import operator
 import os
-import pipes
 import platform
+import random
 import re
-import ssl
 import socket
-import struct
+import ssl
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
@@ -31,25 +35,53 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree
 import zlib
 
 from .compat import (
+    compat_HTMLParseError,
+    compat_HTMLParser,
+    compat_basestring,
     compat_chr,
-    compat_getenv,
+    compat_ctypes_WINFUNCTYPE,
+    compat_etree_fromstring,
+    compat_expanduser,
     compat_html_entities,
+    compat_html_entities_html5,
+    compat_http_client,
+    compat_kwargs,
+    compat_os_name,
     compat_parse_qs,
+    compat_shlex_quote,
     compat_str,
+    compat_struct_pack,
+    compat_struct_unpack,
     compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_parse,
+    compat_urllib_parse_urlencode,
     compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
+    compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus,
     compat_urllib_request,
     compat_urlparse,
-    shlex_quote,
+    compat_xpath,
 )
 
+from .socks import (
+    ProxyType,
+    sockssocket,
+)
+
+
+def register_socks_protocols():
+    # "Register" SOCKS protocols
+    # In Python < 2.6.5, urlsplit() suffers from bug https://bugs.python.org/issue7904
+    # URLs with protocols not in urlparse.uses_netloc are not handled correctly
+    for scheme in ('socks', 'socks4', 'socks4a', 'socks5'):
+        if scheme not in compat_urlparse.uses_netloc:
+            compat_urlparse.uses_netloc.append(scheme)
+
 
 # This is not clearly defined otherwise
 compiled_regex_type = type(re.compile(''))
 
 std_headers = {
-    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 (Chrome)',
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0',
     'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
     'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
     'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
@@ -57,6 +89,103 @@ std_headers = {
 }
 
 
+USER_AGENTS = {
+    'Safari': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27',
+}
+
+
+NO_DEFAULT = object()
+
+ENGLISH_MONTH_NAMES = [
+    'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June',
+    'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+MONTH_NAMES = {
+    'en': ENGLISH_MONTH_NAMES,
+    'fr': [
+        'janvier', 'février', 'mars', 'avril', 'mai', 'juin',
+        'juillet', 'août', 'septembre', 'octobre', 'novembre', 'décembre'],
+}
+
+KNOWN_EXTENSIONS = (
+    'mp4', 'm4a', 'm4p', 'm4b', 'm4r', 'm4v', 'aac',
+    'flv', 'f4v', 'f4a', 'f4b',
+    'webm', 'ogg', 'ogv', 'oga', 'ogx', 'spx', 'opus',
+    'mkv', 'mka', 'mk3d',
+    'avi', 'divx',
+    'mov',
+    'asf', 'wmv', 'wma',
+    '3gp', '3g2',
+    'mp3',
+    'flac',
+    'ape',
+    'wav',
+    'f4f', 'f4m', 'm3u8', 'smil')
+
+# needed for sanitizing filenames in restricted mode
+ACCENT_CHARS = dict(zip('ÃÃÃÃÃÃ
ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÅÃÅÃÃÃÃŰÃÃÃàáâãäåæçèéêëìÃîïðñòóôõöÅøÅùúûüűýþÿ',
+                        itertools.chain('AAAAAA', ['AE'], 'CEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOO', ['OE'], 'UUUUUYP', ['ss'],
+                                        'aaaaaa', ['ae'], 'ceeeeiiiionooooooo', ['oe'], 'uuuuuypy')))
+
+DATE_FORMATS = (
+    '%d %B %Y',
+    '%d %b %Y',
+    '%B %d %Y',
+    '%B %dst %Y',
+    '%B %dnd %Y',
+    '%B %dth %Y',
+    '%b %d %Y',
+    '%b %dst %Y',
+    '%b %dnd %Y',
+    '%b %dth %Y',
+    '%b %dst %Y %I:%M',
+    '%b %dnd %Y %I:%M',
+    '%b %dth %Y %I:%M',
+    '%Y %m %d',
+    '%Y-%m-%d',
+    '%Y/%m/%d',
+    '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M',
+    '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S',
+    '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M',
+    '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
+    '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f',
+    '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M',
+    '%d.%m.%Y %H.%M',
+    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ',
+    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ',
+    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f0Z',
+    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S',
+    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f',
+    '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M',
+    '%b %d %Y at %H:%M',
+    '%b %d %Y at %H:%M:%S',
+    '%B %d %Y at %H:%M',
+    '%B %d %Y at %H:%M:%S',
+)
+
+DATE_FORMATS_DAY_FIRST = list(DATE_FORMATS)
+DATE_FORMATS_DAY_FIRST.extend([
+    '%d-%m-%Y',
+    '%d.%m.%Y',
+    '%d.%m.%y',
+    '%d/%m/%Y',
+    '%d/%m/%y',
+    '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S',
+])
+
+DATE_FORMATS_MONTH_FIRST = list(DATE_FORMATS)
+DATE_FORMATS_MONTH_FIRST.extend([
+    '%m-%d-%Y',
+    '%m.%d.%Y',
+    '%m/%d/%Y',
+    '%m/%d/%y',
+    '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S',
+])
+
+PACKED_CODES_RE = r"}\('(.+)',(\d+),(\d+),'([^']+)'\.split\('\|'\)"
+JSON_LD_RE = r'(?is)'
+
+
 def preferredencoding():
     """Get preferred encoding.
 
@@ -66,7 +195,7 @@ def preferredencoding():
     try:
         pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
         'TEST'.encode(pref)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         pref = 'UTF-8'
 
     return pref
@@ -105,7 +234,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):
             'encoding': 'utf-8',
         })
 
-    tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(**args)
+    tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(**compat_kwargs(args))
 
     try:
         with tf:
@@ -118,7 +247,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):
             except OSError:
                 pass
         os.rename(tf.name, fn)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         try:
             os.remove(tf.name)
         except OSError:
@@ -127,21 +256,17 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):
 
 
 if sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
-    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
+    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val=None):
         """ Find the xpath xpath[@key=val] """
-        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z-]+$', key)
-        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9@\s:._-]*$', val)
-        expr = xpath + "[@%s='%s']" % (key, val)
+        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z_-]+$', key)
+        expr = xpath + ('[@%s]' % key if val is None else "[@%s='%s']" % (key, val))
         return node.find(expr)
 else:
-    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
-        # Here comes the crazy part: In 2.6, if the xpath is a unicode,
-        # .//node does not match if a node is a direct child of . !
-        if isinstance(xpath, unicode):
-            xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
-
-        for f in node.findall(xpath):
-            if f.attrib.get(key) == val:
+    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val=None):
+        for f in node.findall(compat_xpath(xpath)):
+            if key not in f.attrib:
+                continue
+            if val is None or f.attrib.get(key) == val:
                 return f
         return None
 
@@ -161,54 +286,151 @@ def xpath_with_ns(path, ns_map):
     return '/'.join(replaced)
 
 
-def xpath_text(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False):
-    if sys.version_info < (2, 7):  # Crazy 2.6
-        xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+def xpath_element(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False, default=NO_DEFAULT):
+    def _find_xpath(xpath):
+        return node.find(compat_xpath(xpath))
+
+    if isinstance(xpath, (str, compat_str)):
+        n = _find_xpath(xpath)
+    else:
+        for xp in xpath:
+            n = _find_xpath(xp)
+            if n is not None:
+                break
 
-    n = node.find(xpath)
     if n is None:
-        if fatal:
+        if default is not NO_DEFAULT:
+            return default
+        elif fatal:
             name = xpath if name is None else name
             raise ExtractorError('Could not find XML element %s' % name)
         else:
             return None
+    return n
+
+
+def xpath_text(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False, default=NO_DEFAULT):
+    n = xpath_element(node, xpath, name, fatal=fatal, default=default)
+    if n is None or n == default:
+        return n
+    if n.text is None:
+        if default is not NO_DEFAULT:
+            return default
+        elif fatal:
+            name = xpath if name is None else name
+            raise ExtractorError('Could not find XML element\'s text %s' % name)
+        else:
+            return None
     return n.text
 
 
+def xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, name=None, fatal=False, default=NO_DEFAULT):
+    n = find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key)
+    if n is None:
+        if default is not NO_DEFAULT:
+            return default
+        elif fatal:
+            name = '%s[@%s]' % (xpath, key) if name is None else name
+            raise ExtractorError('Could not find XML attribute %s' % name)
+        else:
+            return None
+    return n.attrib[key]
+
+
 def get_element_by_id(id, html):
     """Return the content of the tag with the specified ID in the passed HTML document"""
-    return get_element_by_attribute("id", id, html)
+    return get_element_by_attribute('id', id, html)
+
+
+def get_element_by_class(class_name, html):
+    """Return the content of the first tag with the specified class in the passed HTML document"""
+    retval = get_elements_by_class(class_name, html)
+    return retval[0] if retval else None
+
+
+def get_element_by_attribute(attribute, value, html, escape_value=True):
+    retval = get_elements_by_attribute(attribute, value, html, escape_value)
+    return retval[0] if retval else None
+
 
+def get_elements_by_class(class_name, html):
+    """Return the content of all tags with the specified class in the passed HTML document as a list"""
+    return get_elements_by_attribute(
+        'class', r'[^\'"]*\b%s\b[^\'"]*' % re.escape(class_name),
+        html, escape_value=False)
 
-def get_element_by_attribute(attribute, value, html):
+
+def get_elements_by_attribute(attribute, value, html, escape_value=True):
     """Return the content of the tag with the specified attribute in the passed HTML document"""
 
-    m = re.search(r'''(?xs)
+    value = re.escape(value) if escape_value else value
+
+    retlist = []
+    for m in re.finditer(r'''(?xs)
         <([a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+)
-         (?:\s+[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+(?:=[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+|="[^"]+"|='[^']+'))*?
+         (?:\s+[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+(?:=[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]*|="[^"]*"|='[^']*'|))*?
          \s+%s=['"]?%s['"]?
-         (?:\s+[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+(?:=[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+|="[^"]+"|='[^']+'))*?
+         (?:\s+[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]+(?:=[a-zA-Z0-9:._-]*|="[^"]*"|='[^']*'|))*?
         \s*>
         (?P.*?)
         \1>
-    ''' % (re.escape(attribute), re.escape(value)), html)
-
-    if not m:
-        return None
-    res = m.group('content')
-
-    if res.startswith('"') or res.startswith("'"):
-        res = res[1:-1]
-
-    return unescapeHTML(res)
+    ''' % (re.escape(attribute), value), html):
+        res = m.group('content')
+
+        if res.startswith('"') or res.startswith("'"):
+            res = res[1:-1]
+
+        retlist.append(unescapeHTML(res))
+
+    return retlist
+
+
+class HTMLAttributeParser(compat_HTMLParser):
+    """Trivial HTML parser to gather the attributes for a single element"""
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.attrs = {}
+        compat_HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+        self.attrs = dict(attrs)
+
+
+def extract_attributes(html_element):
+    """Given a string for an HTML element such as
+    
+    Decode and return a dictionary of attributes.
+    {
+        'a': 'foo', 'b': 'bar', c: 'baz', d: 'boz',
+        'empty': '', 'noval': None, 'entity': '&',
+        'sq': '"', 'dq': '\''
+    }.
+    NB HTMLParser is stricter in Python 2.6 & 3.2 than in later versions,
+    but the cases in the unit test will work for all of 2.6, 2.7, 3.2-3.5.
+    """
+    parser = HTMLAttributeParser()
+    try:
+        parser.feed(html_element)
+        parser.close()
+    # Older Python may throw HTMLParseError in case of malformed HTML
+    except compat_HTMLParseError:
+        pass
+    return parser.attrs
 
 
 def clean_html(html):
     """Clean an HTML snippet into a readable string"""
+
+    if html is None:  # Convenience for sanitizing descriptions etc.
+        return html
+
     # Newline vs 
     html = html.replace('\n', ' ')
-    html = re.sub(r'\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
-    html = re.sub(r'<\s*/\s*p\s*>\s*<\s*p[^>]*>', '\n', html)
+    html = re.sub(r'(?u)\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
+    html = re.sub(r'(?u)<\s*/\s*p\s*>\s*<\s*p[^>]*>', '\n', html)
     # Strip html tags
     html = re.sub('<.*?>', '', html)
     # Replace html entities
@@ -239,15 +461,12 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
             raise
 
         # In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
-        alt_filename = os.path.join(
-            re.sub('[/<>:"\\|\\\\?\\*]', '#', path_part)
-            for path_part in os.path.split(filename)
-        )
+        alt_filename = sanitize_path(filename)
         if alt_filename == filename:
             raise
         else:
             # An exception here should be caught in the caller
-            stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
+            stream = open(encodeFilename(alt_filename), open_mode)
             return (stream, alt_filename)
 
 
@@ -263,9 +482,12 @@ def timeconvert(timestr):
 def sanitize_filename(s, restricted=False, is_id=False):
     """Sanitizes a string so it could be used as part of a filename.
     If restricted is set, use a stricter subset of allowed characters.
-    Set is_id if this is not an arbitrary string, but an ID that should be kept if possible
+    Set is_id if this is not an arbitrary string, but an ID that should be kept
+    if possible.
     """
     def replace_insane(char):
+        if restricted and char in ACCENT_CHARS:
+            return ACCENT_CHARS[char]
         if char == '?' or ord(char) < 32 or ord(char) == 127:
             return ''
         elif char == '"':
@@ -280,6 +502,8 @@ def sanitize_filename(s, restricted=False, is_id=False):
             return '_'
         return char
 
+    # Handle timestamps
+    s = re.sub(r'[0-9]+(?::[0-9]+)+', lambda m: m.group(0).replace(':', '_'), s)
     result = ''.join(map(replace_insane, s))
     if not is_id:
         while '__' in result:
@@ -288,11 +512,59 @@ def sanitize_filename(s, restricted=False, is_id=False):
         # Common case of "Foreign band name - English song title"
         if restricted and result.startswith('-_'):
             result = result[2:]
+        if result.startswith('-'):
+            result = '_' + result[len('-'):]
+        result = result.lstrip('.')
         if not result:
             result = '_'
     return result
 
 
+def sanitize_path(s):
+    """Sanitizes and normalizes path on Windows"""
+    if sys.platform != 'win32':
+        return s
+    drive_or_unc, _ = os.path.splitdrive(s)
+    if sys.version_info < (2, 7) and not drive_or_unc:
+        drive_or_unc, _ = os.path.splitunc(s)
+    norm_path = os.path.normpath(remove_start(s, drive_or_unc)).split(os.path.sep)
+    if drive_or_unc:
+        norm_path.pop(0)
+    sanitized_path = [
+        path_part if path_part in ['.', '..'] else re.sub(r'(?:[/<>:"\|\\?\*]|[\s.]$)', '#', path_part)
+        for path_part in norm_path]
+    if drive_or_unc:
+        sanitized_path.insert(0, drive_or_unc + os.path.sep)
+    return os.path.join(*sanitized_path)
+
+
+def sanitize_url(url):
+    # Prepend protocol-less URLs with `http:` scheme in order to mitigate
+    # the number of unwanted failures due to missing protocol
+    if url.startswith('//'):
+        return 'http:%s' % url
+    # Fix some common typos seen so far
+    COMMON_TYPOS = (
+        # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/15649
+        (r'^httpss://', r'https://'),
+        # https://bx1.be/lives/direct-tv/
+        (r'^rmtp([es]?)://', r'rtmp\1://'),
+    )
+    for mistake, fixup in COMMON_TYPOS:
+        if re.match(mistake, url):
+            return re.sub(mistake, fixup, url)
+    return url
+
+
+def sanitized_Request(url, *args, **kwargs):
+    return compat_urllib_request.Request(sanitize_url(url), *args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def expand_path(s):
+    """Expand shell variables and ~"""
+    return os.path.expandvars(compat_expanduser(s))
+
+
 def orderedSet(iterable):
     """ Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
     res = []
@@ -302,13 +574,20 @@ def orderedSet(iterable):
     return res
 
 
-def _htmlentity_transform(entity):
+def _htmlentity_transform(entity_with_semicolon):
     """Transforms an HTML entity to a character."""
+    entity = entity_with_semicolon[:-1]
+
     # Known non-numeric HTML entity
     if entity in compat_html_entities.name2codepoint:
         return compat_chr(compat_html_entities.name2codepoint[entity])
 
-    mobj = re.match(r'#(x?[0-9]+)', entity)
+    # TODO: HTML5 allows entities without a semicolon. For example,
+    # 'Éric' should be decoded as 'Ãric'.
+    if entity_with_semicolon in compat_html_entities_html5:
+        return compat_html_entities_html5[entity_with_semicolon]
+
+    mobj = re.match(r'#(x[0-9a-fA-F]+|[0-9]+)', entity)
     if mobj is not None:
         numstr = mobj.group(1)
         if numstr.startswith('x'):
@@ -316,10 +595,14 @@ def _htmlentity_transform(entity):
             numstr = '0%s' % numstr
         else:
             base = 10
-        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+        # See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7518
+        try:
+            return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
 
     # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
-    return ('&%s;' % entity)
+    return '&%s;' % entity
 
 
 def unescapeHTML(s):
@@ -328,7 +611,19 @@ def unescapeHTML(s):
     assert type(s) == compat_str
 
     return re.sub(
-        r'&([^;]+);', lambda m: _htmlentity_transform(m.group(1)), s)
+        r'&([^&;]+;)', lambda m: _htmlentity_transform(m.group(1)), s)
+
+
+def get_subprocess_encoding():
+    if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion()[0] >= 5:
+        # For subprocess calls, encode with locale encoding
+        # Refer to http://stackoverflow.com/a/9951851/35070
+        encoding = preferredencoding()
+    else:
+        encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    if encoding is None:
+        encoding = 'utf-8'
+    return encoding
 
 
 def encodeFilename(s, for_subprocess=False):
@@ -342,32 +637,43 @@ def encodeFilename(s, for_subprocess=False):
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
         return s
 
-    if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion()[0] >= 5:
-        # Pass '' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up
-        # (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would
-        # match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.)
-        if not for_subprocess:
-            return s
-        else:
-            # For subprocess calls, encode with locale encoding
-            # Refer to http://stackoverflow.com/a/9951851/35070
-            encoding = preferredencoding()
-    else:
-        encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
-    if encoding is None:
-        encoding = 'utf-8'
-    return s.encode(encoding, 'ignore')
+    # Pass '' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up
+    # (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would
+    # match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.)
+    if not for_subprocess and sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion()[0] >= 5:
+        return s
+
+    # Jython assumes filenames are Unicode strings though reported as Python 2.x compatible
+    if sys.platform.startswith('java'):
+        return s
+
+    return s.encode(get_subprocess_encoding(), 'ignore')
+
+
+def decodeFilename(b, for_subprocess=False):
+
+    if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+        return b
+
+    if not isinstance(b, bytes):
+        return b
+
+    return b.decode(get_subprocess_encoding(), 'ignore')
 
 
 def encodeArgument(s):
     if not isinstance(s, compat_str):
         # Legacy code that uses byte strings
         # Uncomment the following line after fixing all post processors
-        #assert False, 'Internal error: %r should be of type %r, is %r' % (s, compat_str, type(s))
+        # assert False, 'Internal error: %r should be of type %r, is %r' % (s, compat_str, type(s))
         s = s.decode('ascii')
     return encodeFilename(s, True)
 
 
+def decodeArgument(b):
+    return decodeFilename(b, True)
+
+
 def decodeOption(optval):
     if optval is None:
         return optval
@@ -387,48 +693,48 @@ def formatSeconds(secs):
         return '%d' % secs
 
 
-def make_HTTPS_handler(opts_no_check_certificate, **kwargs):
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 2):
-        import httplib
-
-        class HTTPSConnectionV3(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
-            def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-                httplib.HTTPSConnection.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
-
-            def connect(self):
-                sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), self.timeout)
-                if getattr(self, '_tunnel_host', False):
-                    self.sock = sock
-                    self._tunnel()
-                try:
-                    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
-                except ssl.SSLError:
-                    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
-
-        class HTTPSHandlerV3(compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler):
-            def https_open(self, req):
-                return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
-        return HTTPSHandlerV3(**kwargs)
-    elif hasattr(ssl, 'create_default_context'):  # Python >= 3.4
-        context = ssl.create_default_context(ssl.Purpose.CLIENT_AUTH)
-        context.options &= ~ssl.OP_NO_SSLv3  # Allow older, not-as-secure SSLv3
+def make_HTTPS_handler(params, **kwargs):
+    opts_no_check_certificate = params.get('nocheckcertificate', False)
+    if hasattr(ssl, 'create_default_context'):  # Python >= 3.4 or 2.7.9
+        context = ssl.create_default_context(ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH)
         if opts_no_check_certificate:
+            context.check_hostname = False
             context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
-        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context, **kwargs)
+        try:
+            return YoutubeDLHTTPSHandler(params, context=context, **kwargs)
+        except TypeError:
+            # Python 2.7.8
+            # (create_default_context present but HTTPSHandler has no context=)
+            pass
+
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 2):
+        return YoutubeDLHTTPSHandler(params, **kwargs)
     else:  # Python < 3.4
-        context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
+        context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
         context.verify_mode = (ssl.CERT_NONE
                                if opts_no_check_certificate
                                else ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
         context.set_default_verify_paths()
-        try:
-            context.load_default_certs()
-        except AttributeError:
-            pass  # Python < 3.4
-        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context, **kwargs)
+        return YoutubeDLHTTPSHandler(params, context=context, **kwargs)
 
 
-class ExtractorError(Exception):
+def bug_reports_message():
+    if ytdl_is_updateable():
+        update_cmd = 'type  youtube-dl -U  to update'
+    else:
+        update_cmd = 'see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update'
+    msg = '; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug .'
+    msg += ' Make sure you are using the latest version; %s.' % update_cmd
+    msg += ' Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.'
+    return msg
+
+
+class YoutubeDLError(Exception):
+    """Base exception for YoutubeDL errors."""
+    pass
+
+
+class ExtractorError(YoutubeDLError):
     """Error during info extraction."""
 
     def __init__(self, msg, tb=None, expected=False, cause=None, video_id=None):
@@ -443,13 +749,7 @@ class ExtractorError(Exception):
         if cause:
             msg += ' (caused by %r)' % cause
         if not expected:
-            if ytdl_is_updateable():
-                update_cmd = 'type  youtube-dl -U  to update'
-            else:
-                update_cmd = 'see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update'
-            msg += '; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug .'
-            msg += ' Make sure you are using the latest version; %s.' % update_cmd
-            msg += ' Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.'
+            msg += bug_reports_message()
         super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
 
         self.traceback = tb
@@ -463,12 +763,31 @@ class ExtractorError(Exception):
         return ''.join(traceback.format_tb(self.traceback))
 
 
+class UnsupportedError(ExtractorError):
+    def __init__(self, url):
+        super(UnsupportedError, self).__init__(
+            'Unsupported URL: %s' % url, expected=True)
+        self.url = url
+
+
 class RegexNotFoundError(ExtractorError):
     """Error when a regex didn't match"""
     pass
 
 
-class DownloadError(Exception):
+class GeoRestrictedError(ExtractorError):
+    """Geographic restriction Error exception.
+
+    This exception may be thrown when a video is not available from your
+    geographic location due to geographic restrictions imposed by a website.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, msg, countries=None):
+        super(GeoRestrictedError, self).__init__(msg, expected=True)
+        self.msg = msg
+        self.countries = countries
+
+
+class DownloadError(YoutubeDLError):
     """Download Error exception.
 
     This exception may be thrown by FileDownloader objects if they are not
@@ -482,7 +801,7 @@ class DownloadError(Exception):
         self.exc_info = exc_info
 
 
-class SameFileError(Exception):
+class SameFileError(YoutubeDLError):
     """Same File exception.
 
     This exception will be thrown by FileDownloader objects if they detect
@@ -491,7 +810,7 @@ class SameFileError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-class PostProcessingError(Exception):
+class PostProcessingError(YoutubeDLError):
     """Post Processing exception.
 
     This exception may be raised by PostProcessor's .run() method to
@@ -499,15 +818,16 @@ class PostProcessingError(Exception):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, msg):
+        super(PostProcessingError, self).__init__(msg)
         self.msg = msg
 
 
-class MaxDownloadsReached(Exception):
+class MaxDownloadsReached(YoutubeDLError):
     """ --max-downloads limit has been reached. """
     pass
 
 
-class UnavailableVideoError(Exception):
+class UnavailableVideoError(YoutubeDLError):
     """Unavailable Format exception.
 
     This exception will be thrown when a video is requested
@@ -516,22 +836,118 @@ class UnavailableVideoError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-class ContentTooShortError(Exception):
+class ContentTooShortError(YoutubeDLError):
     """Content Too Short exception.
 
     This exception may be raised by FileDownloader objects when a file they
     download is too small for what the server announced first, indicating
     the connection was probably interrupted.
     """
-    # Both in bytes
-    downloaded = None
-    expected = None
 
     def __init__(self, downloaded, expected):
+        super(ContentTooShortError, self).__init__(
+            'Downloaded {0} bytes, expected {1} bytes'.format(downloaded, expected)
+        )
+        # Both in bytes
         self.downloaded = downloaded
         self.expected = expected
 
 
+class XAttrMetadataError(YoutubeDLError):
+    def __init__(self, code=None, msg='Unknown error'):
+        super(XAttrMetadataError, self).__init__(msg)
+        self.code = code
+        self.msg = msg
+
+        # Parsing code and msg
+        if (self.code in (errno.ENOSPC, errno.EDQUOT) or
+                'No space left' in self.msg or 'Disk quota excedded' in self.msg):
+            self.reason = 'NO_SPACE'
+        elif self.code == errno.E2BIG or 'Argument list too long' in self.msg:
+            self.reason = 'VALUE_TOO_LONG'
+        else:
+            self.reason = 'NOT_SUPPORTED'
+
+
+class XAttrUnavailableError(YoutubeDLError):
+    pass
+
+
+def _create_http_connection(ydl_handler, http_class, is_https, *args, **kwargs):
+    # Working around python 2 bug (see http://bugs.python.org/issue17849) by limiting
+    # expected HTTP responses to meet HTTP/1.0 or later (see also
+    # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6727)
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        kwargs['strict'] = True
+    hc = http_class(*args, **compat_kwargs(kwargs))
+    source_address = ydl_handler._params.get('source_address')
+
+    if source_address is not None:
+        # This is to workaround _create_connection() from socket where it will try all
+        # address data from getaddrinfo() including IPv6. This filters the result from
+        # getaddrinfo() based on the source_address value.
+        # This is based on the cpython socket.create_connection() function.
+        # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/socket.py#L691
+        def _create_connection(address, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, source_address=None):
+            host, port = address
+            err = None
+            addrs = socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+            af = socket.AF_INET if '.' in source_address[0] else socket.AF_INET6
+            ip_addrs = [addr for addr in addrs if addr[0] == af]
+            if addrs and not ip_addrs:
+                ip_version = 'v4' if af == socket.AF_INET else 'v6'
+                raise socket.error(
+                    "No remote IP%s addresses available for connect, can't use '%s' as source address"
+                    % (ip_version, source_address[0]))
+            for res in ip_addrs:
+                af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
+                sock = None
+                try:
+                    sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
+                    if timeout is not socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT:
+                        sock.settimeout(timeout)
+                    sock.bind(source_address)
+                    sock.connect(sa)
+                    err = None  # Explicitly break reference cycle
+                    return sock
+                except socket.error as _:
+                    err = _
+                    if sock is not None:
+                        sock.close()
+            if err is not None:
+                raise err
+            else:
+                raise socket.error('getaddrinfo returns an empty list')
+        if hasattr(hc, '_create_connection'):
+            hc._create_connection = _create_connection
+        sa = (source_address, 0)
+        if hasattr(hc, 'source_address'):  # Python 2.7+
+            hc.source_address = sa
+        else:  # Python 2.6
+            def _hc_connect(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                sock = _create_connection(
+                    (self.host, self.port), self.timeout, sa)
+                if is_https:
+                    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(
+                        sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file,
+                        ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
+                else:
+                    self.sock = sock
+            hc.connect = functools.partial(_hc_connect, hc)
+
+    return hc
+
+
+def handle_youtubedl_headers(headers):
+    filtered_headers = headers
+
+    if 'Youtubedl-no-compression' in filtered_headers:
+        filtered_headers = dict((k, v) for k, v in filtered_headers.items() if k.lower() != 'accept-encoding')
+        del filtered_headers['Youtubedl-no-compression']
+
+    return filtered_headers
+
+
 class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.
 
@@ -539,7 +955,7 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     the standard headers to every HTTP request and handles gzipped and
     deflated responses from web servers. If compression is to be avoided in
     a particular request, the original request in the program code only has
-    to include the HTTP header "Youtubedl-No-Compression", which will be
+    to include the HTTP header "Youtubedl-no-compression", which will be
     removed before making the real request.
 
     Part of this code was copied from:
@@ -550,6 +966,22 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     public domain.
     """
 
+    def __init__(self, params, *args, **kwargs):
+        compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        self._params = params
+
+    def http_open(self, req):
+        conn_class = compat_http_client.HTTPConnection
+
+        socks_proxy = req.headers.get('Ytdl-socks-proxy')
+        if socks_proxy:
+            conn_class = make_socks_conn_class(conn_class, socks_proxy)
+            del req.headers['Ytdl-socks-proxy']
+
+        return self.do_open(functools.partial(
+            _create_http_connection, self, conn_class, False),
+            req)
+
     @staticmethod
     def deflate(data):
         try:
@@ -557,27 +989,29 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
         except zlib.error:
             return zlib.decompress(data)
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def addinfourl_wrapper(stream, headers, url, code):
-        if hasattr(compat_urllib_request.addinfourl, 'getcode'):
-            return compat_urllib_request.addinfourl(stream, headers, url, code)
-        ret = compat_urllib_request.addinfourl(stream, headers, url)
-        ret.code = code
-        return ret
-
     def http_request(self, req):
+        # According to RFC 3986, URLs can not contain non-ASCII characters, however this is not
+        # always respected by websites, some tend to give out URLs with non percent-encoded
+        # non-ASCII characters (see telemb.py, ard.py [#3412])
+        # urllib chokes on URLs with non-ASCII characters (see http://bugs.python.org/issue3991)
+        # To work around aforementioned issue we will replace request's original URL with
+        # percent-encoded one
+        # Since redirects are also affected (e.g. http://www.southpark.de/alle-episoden/s18e09)
+        # the code of this workaround has been moved here from YoutubeDL.urlopen()
+        url = req.get_full_url()
+        url_escaped = escape_url(url)
+
+        # Substitute URL if any change after escaping
+        if url != url_escaped:
+            req = update_Request(req, url=url_escaped)
+
         for h, v in std_headers.items():
-            if h not in req.headers:
+            # Capitalize is needed because of Python bug 2275: http://bugs.python.org/issue2275
+            # The dict keys are capitalized because of this bug by urllib
+            if h.capitalize() not in req.headers:
                 req.add_header(h, v)
-        if 'Youtubedl-no-compression' in req.headers:
-            if 'Accept-encoding' in req.headers:
-                del req.headers['Accept-encoding']
-            del req.headers['Youtubedl-no-compression']
-        if 'Youtubedl-user-agent' in req.headers:
-            if 'User-agent' in req.headers:
-                del req.headers['User-agent']
-            req.headers['User-agent'] = req.headers['Youtubedl-user-agent']
-            del req.headers['Youtubedl-user-agent']
+
+        req.headers = handle_youtubedl_headers(req.headers)
 
         if sys.version_info < (2, 7) and '#' in req.get_full_url():
             # Python 2.6 is brain-dead when it comes to fragments
@@ -606,32 +1040,137 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
                     break
                 else:
                     raise original_ioerror
-            resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(uncompressed, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+            resp = compat_urllib_request.addinfourl(uncompressed, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
             resp.msg = old_resp.msg
+            del resp.headers['Content-encoding']
         # deflate
         if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'deflate':
             gz = io.BytesIO(self.deflate(resp.read()))
-            resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+            resp = compat_urllib_request.addinfourl(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
             resp.msg = old_resp.msg
+            del resp.headers['Content-encoding']
+        # Percent-encode redirect URL of Location HTTP header to satisfy RFC 3986 (see
+        # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6457).
+        if 300 <= resp.code < 400:
+            location = resp.headers.get('Location')
+            if location:
+                # As of RFC 2616 default charset is iso-8859-1 that is respected by python 3
+                if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+                    location = location.encode('iso-8859-1').decode('utf-8')
+                else:
+                    location = location.decode('utf-8')
+                location_escaped = escape_url(location)
+                if location != location_escaped:
+                    del resp.headers['Location']
+                    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+                        location_escaped = location_escaped.encode('utf-8')
+                    resp.headers['Location'] = location_escaped
         return resp
 
     https_request = http_request
     https_response = http_response
 
 
-def parse_iso8601(date_str, delimiter='T'):
-    """ Return a UNIX timestamp from the given date """
+def make_socks_conn_class(base_class, socks_proxy):
+    assert issubclass(base_class, (
+        compat_http_client.HTTPConnection, compat_http_client.HTTPSConnection))
 
-    if date_str is None:
-        return None
+    url_components = compat_urlparse.urlparse(socks_proxy)
+    if url_components.scheme.lower() == 'socks5':
+        socks_type = ProxyType.SOCKS5
+    elif url_components.scheme.lower() in ('socks', 'socks4'):
+        socks_type = ProxyType.SOCKS4
+    elif url_components.scheme.lower() == 'socks4a':
+        socks_type = ProxyType.SOCKS4A
+
+    def unquote_if_non_empty(s):
+        if not s:
+            return s
+        return compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus(s)
+
+    proxy_args = (
+        socks_type,
+        url_components.hostname, url_components.port or 1080,
+        True,  # Remote DNS
+        unquote_if_non_empty(url_components.username),
+        unquote_if_non_empty(url_components.password),
+    )
+
+    class SocksConnection(base_class):
+        def connect(self):
+            self.sock = sockssocket()
+            self.sock.setproxy(*proxy_args)
+            if type(self.timeout) in (int, float):
+                self.sock.settimeout(self.timeout)
+            self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
+
+            if isinstance(self, compat_http_client.HTTPSConnection):
+                if hasattr(self, '_context'):  # Python > 2.6
+                    self.sock = self._context.wrap_socket(
+                        self.sock, server_hostname=self.host)
+                else:
+                    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(self.sock)
+
+    return SocksConnection
+
+
+class YoutubeDLHTTPSHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler):
+    def __init__(self, params, https_conn_class=None, *args, **kwargs):
+        compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        self._https_conn_class = https_conn_class or compat_http_client.HTTPSConnection
+        self._params = params
+
+    def https_open(self, req):
+        kwargs = {}
+        conn_class = self._https_conn_class
+
+        if hasattr(self, '_context'):  # python > 2.6
+            kwargs['context'] = self._context
+        if hasattr(self, '_check_hostname'):  # python 3.x
+            kwargs['check_hostname'] = self._check_hostname
+
+        socks_proxy = req.headers.get('Ytdl-socks-proxy')
+        if socks_proxy:
+            conn_class = make_socks_conn_class(conn_class, socks_proxy)
+            del req.headers['Ytdl-socks-proxy']
+
+        return self.do_open(functools.partial(
+            _create_http_connection, self, conn_class, True),
+            req, **kwargs)
+
+
+class YoutubeDLCookieProcessor(compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor):
+    def __init__(self, cookiejar=None):
+        compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor.__init__(self, cookiejar)
+
+    def http_response(self, request, response):
+        # Python 2 will choke on next HTTP request in row if there are non-ASCII
+        # characters in Set-Cookie HTTP header of last response (see
+        # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6769).
+        # In order to at least prevent crashing we will percent encode Set-Cookie
+        # header before HTTPCookieProcessor starts processing it.
+        # if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and response.headers:
+        #     for set_cookie_header in ('Set-Cookie', 'Set-Cookie2'):
+        #         set_cookie = response.headers.get(set_cookie_header)
+        #         if set_cookie:
+        #             set_cookie_escaped = compat_urllib_parse.quote(set_cookie, b"%/;:@&=+$,!~*'()?#[] ")
+        #             if set_cookie != set_cookie_escaped:
+        #                 del response.headers[set_cookie_header]
+        #                 response.headers[set_cookie_header] = set_cookie_escaped
+        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor.http_response(self, request, response)
+
+    https_request = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor.http_request
+    https_response = http_response
 
+
+def extract_timezone(date_str):
     m = re.search(
-        r'(\.[0-9]+)?(?:Z$| ?(?P\+|-)(?P[0-9]{2}):?(?P[0-9]{2})$)',
+        r'^.{8,}?(?PZ$| ?(?P\+|-)(?P[0-9]{2}):?(?P[0-9]{2})$)',
         date_str)
     if not m:
         timezone = datetime.timedelta()
     else:
-        date_str = date_str[:-len(m.group(0))]
+        date_str = date_str[:-len(m.group('tz'))]
         if not m.group('sign'):
             timezone = datetime.timedelta()
         else:
@@ -639,49 +1178,45 @@ def parse_iso8601(date_str, delimiter='T'):
             timezone = datetime.timedelta(
                 hours=sign * int(m.group('hours')),
                 minutes=sign * int(m.group('minutes')))
-    date_format = '%Y-%m-%d{0}%H:%M:%S'.format(delimiter)
-    dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, date_format) - timezone
-    return calendar.timegm(dt.timetuple())
+    return timezone, date_str
 
 
-def unified_strdate(date_str):
-    """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
+def parse_iso8601(date_str, delimiter='T', timezone=None):
+    """ Return a UNIX timestamp from the given date """
 
     if date_str is None:
         return None
 
+    date_str = re.sub(r'\.[0-9]+', '', date_str)
+
+    if timezone is None:
+        timezone, date_str = extract_timezone(date_str)
+
+    try:
+        date_format = '%Y-%m-%d{0}%H:%M:%S'.format(delimiter)
+        dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, date_format) - timezone
+        return calendar.timegm(dt.timetuple())
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+
+
+def date_formats(day_first=True):
+    return DATE_FORMATS_DAY_FIRST if day_first else DATE_FORMATS_MONTH_FIRST
+
+
+def unified_strdate(date_str, day_first=True):
+    """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
+
+    if date_str is None:
+        return None
     upload_date = None
     # Replace commas
     date_str = date_str.replace(',', ' ')
-    # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
-    date_str = re.sub(r' ?(\+|-)[0-9]{2}:?[0-9]{2}$', '', date_str)
-    format_expressions = [
-        '%d %B %Y',
-        '%d %b %Y',
-        '%B %d %Y',
-        '%b %d %Y',
-        '%b %dst %Y %I:%M%p',
-        '%b %dnd %Y %I:%M%p',
-        '%b %dth %Y %I:%M%p',
-        '%Y-%m-%d',
-        '%Y/%m/%d',
-        '%d.%m.%Y',
-        '%d/%m/%Y',
-        '%d/%m/%y',
-        '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S',
-        '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S',
-        '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
-        '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f',
-        '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M',
-        '%d.%m.%Y %H.%M',
-        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ',
-        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ',
-        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f0Z',
-        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S',
-        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f',
-        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M',
-    ]
-    for expression in format_expressions:
+    # Remove AM/PM + timezone
+    date_str = re.sub(r'(?i)\s*(?:AM|PM)(?:\s+[A-Z]+)?', '', date_str)
+    _, date_str = extract_timezone(date_str)
+
+    for expression in date_formats(day_first):
         try:
             upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
         except ValueError:
@@ -689,16 +1224,56 @@ def unified_strdate(date_str):
     if upload_date is None:
         timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_str)
         if timetuple:
-            upload_date = datetime.datetime(*timetuple[:6]).strftime('%Y%m%d')
-    return upload_date
+            try:
+                upload_date = datetime.datetime(*timetuple[:6]).strftime('%Y%m%d')
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+    if upload_date is not None:
+        return compat_str(upload_date)
+
+
+def unified_timestamp(date_str, day_first=True):
+    if date_str is None:
+        return None
+
+    date_str = re.sub(r'[,|]', '', date_str)
+
+    pm_delta = 12 if re.search(r'(?i)PM', date_str) else 0
+    timezone, date_str = extract_timezone(date_str)
+
+    # Remove AM/PM + timezone
+    date_str = re.sub(r'(?i)\s*(?:AM|PM)(?:\s+[A-Z]+)?', '', date_str)
+
+    # Remove unrecognized timezones from ISO 8601 alike timestamps
+    m = re.search(r'\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}(?:\.\d+)?(?P\s*[A-Z]+)$', date_str)
+    if m:
+        date_str = date_str[:-len(m.group('tz'))]
+
+    # Python only supports microseconds, so remove nanoseconds
+    m = re.search(r'^([0-9]{4,}-[0-9]{1,2}-[0-9]{1,2}T[0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{6})[0-9]+$', date_str)
+    if m:
+        date_str = m.group(1)
+
+    for expression in date_formats(day_first):
+        try:
+            dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression) - timezone + datetime.timedelta(hours=pm_delta)
+            return calendar.timegm(dt.timetuple())
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+    timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_str)
+    if timetuple:
+        return calendar.timegm(timetuple) + pm_delta * 3600
 
 
 def determine_ext(url, default_ext='unknown_video'):
-    if url is None:
+    if url is None or '.' not in url:
         return default_ext
     guess = url.partition('?')[0].rpartition('.')[2]
     if re.match(r'^[A-Za-z0-9]+$', guess):
         return guess
+    # Try extract ext from URLs like http://example.com/foo/bar.mp4/?download
+    elif guess.rstrip('/') in KNOWN_EXTENSIONS:
+        return guess.rstrip('/')
     else:
         return default_ext
 
@@ -712,16 +1287,18 @@ def date_from_str(date_str):
     Return a datetime object from a string in the format YYYYMMDD or
     (now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"""
     today = datetime.date.today()
-    if date_str == 'now'or date_str == 'today':
+    if date_str in ('now', 'today'):
         return today
-    match = re.match('(now|today)(?P[+-])(?P