- prefix = 'room/%s?aid=android&client_sys=android&time=%d' % (
- room_id, int(time.time()))
-
- auth = hashlib.md5((prefix + '1231').encode('ascii')).hexdigest()
- config = self._download_json(
- 'http://www.douyutv.com/api/v1/%s&auth=%s' % (prefix, auth),
- video_id)
+ config = None
+ # Douyu API sometimes returns error "Unable to load the requested class: eticket_redis_cache"
+ # Retry with different parameters - same parameters cause same errors
+ for i in range(5):
+ prefix = 'room/%s?aid=android&client_sys=android&time=%d' % (
+ room_id, int(time.time()))
+ auth = hashlib.md5((prefix + '1231').encode('ascii')).hexdigest()
+
+ config_page = self._download_webpage(
+ 'http://www.douyutv.com/api/v1/%s&auth=%s' % (prefix, auth),
+ video_id)
+ try:
+ config = self._parse_json(config_page, video_id, fatal=False)
+ except ExtractorError:
+ # Wait some time before retrying to get a different time() value
+ self._sleep(1, video_id, msg_template='%(video_id)s: Error occurs. '
+ 'Waiting for %(timeout)s seconds before retrying')
+ continue
+ else:
+ break
+ if config is None:
+ raise ExtractorError('Unable to fetch API result')