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 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import calendar
+import codecs
+import contextlib
+import ctypes
 import datetime
 import email.utils
 import errno
 import datetime
 import email.utils
 import errno
+import functools
 import gzip
 import gzip
+import itertools
 import io
 import json
 import locale
 import io
 import json
 import locale
+import math
+import operator
 import os
 import os
+import pipes
 import platform
 import re
 import platform
 import re
+import ssl
 import socket
 import socket
+import struct
+import subprocess
 import sys
 import sys
+import tempfile
 import traceback
 import traceback
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
 import zlib
 
 import zlib
 
-try:
-    import urllib.request as compat_urllib_request
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import urllib2 as compat_urllib_request
-
-try:
-    import urllib.error as compat_urllib_error
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import urllib2 as compat_urllib_error
-
-try:
-    import urllib.parse as compat_urllib_parse
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import urllib as compat_urllib_parse
-
-try:
-    from urllib.parse import urlparse as compat_urllib_parse_urlparse
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    from urlparse import urlparse as compat_urllib_parse_urlparse
-
-try:
-    import urllib.parse as compat_urlparse
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import urlparse as compat_urlparse
-
-try:
-    import http.cookiejar as compat_cookiejar
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import cookielib as compat_cookiejar
-
-try:
-    import html.entities as compat_html_entities
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import htmlentitydefs as compat_html_entities
-
-try:
-    import html.parser as compat_html_parser
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import HTMLParser as compat_html_parser
-
-try:
-    import http.client as compat_http_client
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    import httplib as compat_http_client
-
-try:
-    from urllib.error import HTTPError as compat_HTTPError
-except ImportError:  # Python 2
-    from urllib2 import HTTPError as compat_HTTPError
-
-try:
-    from subprocess import DEVNULL
-    compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL = lambda: DEVNULL
-except ImportError:
-    compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL = lambda: open(os.path.devnull, 'w')
-
-try:
-    from urllib.parse import parse_qs as compat_parse_qs
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    # HACK: The following is the correct parse_qs implementation from cpython 3's stdlib.
-    # Python 2's version is apparently totally broken
-    def _unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
-        if string == '':
-            return string
-        res = string.split('%')
-        if len(res) == 1:
-            return string
-        if encoding is None:
-            encoding = 'utf-8'
-        if errors is None:
-            errors = 'replace'
-        # pct_sequence: contiguous sequence of percent-encoded bytes, decoded
-        pct_sequence = b''
-        string = res[0]
-        for item in res[1:]:
-            try:
-                if not item:
-                    raise ValueError
-                pct_sequence += item[:2].decode('hex')
-                rest = item[2:]
-                if not rest:
-                    # This segment was just a single percent-encoded character.
-                    # May be part of a sequence of code units, so delay decoding.
-                    # (Stored in pct_sequence).
-                    continue
-            except ValueError:
-                rest = '%' + item
-            # Encountered non-percent-encoded characters. Flush the current
-            # pct_sequence.
-            string += pct_sequence.decode(encoding, errors) + rest
-            pct_sequence = b''
-        if pct_sequence:
-            # Flush the final pct_sequence
-            string += pct_sequence.decode(encoding, errors)
-        return string
-
-    def _parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
-                encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
-        qs, _coerce_result = qs, unicode
-        pairs = [s2 for s1 in qs.split('&') for s2 in s1.split(';')]
-        r = []
-        for name_value in pairs:
-            if not name_value and not strict_parsing:
-                continue
-            nv = name_value.split('=', 1)
-            if len(nv) != 2:
-                if strict_parsing:
-                    raise ValueError("bad query field: %r" % (name_value,))
-                # Handle case of a control-name with no equal sign
-                if keep_blank_values:
-                    nv.append('')
-                else:
-                    continue
-            if len(nv[1]) or keep_blank_values:
-                name = nv[0].replace('+', ' ')
-                name = _unquote(name, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
-                name = _coerce_result(name)
-                value = nv[1].replace('+', ' ')
-                value = _unquote(value, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
-                value = _coerce_result(value)
-                r.append((name, value))
-        return r
-
-    def compat_parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
-                encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
-        parsed_result = {}
-        pairs = _parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing,
-                        encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
-        for name, value in pairs:
-            if name in parsed_result:
-                parsed_result[name].append(value)
-            else:
-                parsed_result[name] = [value]
-        return parsed_result
-
-try:
-    compat_str = unicode # Python 2
-except NameError:
-    compat_str = str
-
-try:
-    compat_chr = unichr # Python 2
-except NameError:
-    compat_chr = chr
+from .compat import (
+    compat_basestring,
+    compat_chr,
+    compat_getenv,
+    compat_html_entities,
+    compat_http_client,
+    compat_parse_qs,
+    compat_socket_create_connection,
+    compat_str,
+    compat_urllib_error,
+    compat_urllib_parse,
+    compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+    compat_urlparse,
+    shlex_quote,
+)
 
 
-def compat_ord(c):
-    if type(c) is int: return c
-    else: return ord(c)
 
 # This is not clearly defined otherwise
 compiled_regex_type = type(re.compile(''))
 
 std_headers = {
 
 # 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',
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/20.0 (Chrome)',
     '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',
     'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
 }
 
     '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',
     'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
 }
 
+
+ENGLISH_MONTH_NAMES = [
+    'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June',
+    'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+
 def preferredencoding():
     """Get preferred encoding.
 
 def preferredencoding():
     """Get preferred encoding.
 
@@ -184,159 +75,150 @@ def preferredencoding():
     """
     try:
         pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
     """
     try:
         pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
-        u'TEST'.encode(pref)
+        'TEST'.encode(pref)
     except:
         pref = 'UTF-8'
 
     return pref
 
     except:
         pref = 'UTF-8'
 
     return pref
 
-if sys.version_info < (3,0):
-    def compat_print(s):
-        print(s.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
-else:
-    def compat_print(s):
-        assert type(s) == type(u'')
-        print(s)
-
-# In Python 2.x, json.dump expects a bytestream.
-# In Python 3.x, it writes to a character stream
-if sys.version_info < (3,0):
-    def write_json_file(obj, fn):
-        with open(fn, 'wb') as f:
-            json.dump(obj, f)
-else:
-    def write_json_file(obj, fn):
-        with open(fn, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-            json.dump(obj, f)
 
 
-if sys.version_info >= (2,7):
+def write_json_file(obj, fn):
+    """ Encode obj as JSON and write it to fn, atomically if possible """
+
+    fn = encodeFilename(fn)
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and sys.platform != 'win32':
+        encoding = get_filesystem_encoding()
+        # os.path.basename returns a bytes object, but NamedTemporaryFile
+        # will fail if the filename contains non ascii characters unless we
+        # use a unicode object
+        path_basename = lambda f: os.path.basename(fn).decode(encoding)
+        # the same for os.path.dirname
+        path_dirname = lambda f: os.path.dirname(fn).decode(encoding)
+    else:
+        path_basename = os.path.basename
+        path_dirname = os.path.dirname
+
+    args = {
+        'suffix': '.tmp',
+        'prefix': path_basename(fn) + '.',
+        'dir': path_dirname(fn),
+        'delete': False,
+    }
+
+    # In Python 2.x, json.dump expects a bytestream.
+    # In Python 3.x, it writes to a character stream
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        args['mode'] = 'wb'
+    else:
+        args.update({
+            'mode': 'w',
+            'encoding': 'utf-8',
+        })
+
+    tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(**args)
+
+    try:
+        with tf:
+            json.dump(obj, tf)
+        if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            # Need to remove existing file on Windows, else os.rename raises
+            # WindowsError or FileExistsError.
+            try:
+                os.unlink(fn)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+        os.rename(tf.name, fn)
+    except:
+        try:
+            os.remove(tf.name)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+        raise
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
     def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
         """ Find the xpath xpath[@key=val] """
     def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
         """ 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 + u"[@%s='%s']" % (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)
         return node.find(expr)
 else:
     def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, 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, compat_str):
+            xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+
         for f in node.findall(xpath):
             if f.attrib.get(key) == val:
                 return f
         return None
 
         for f in node.findall(xpath):
             if f.attrib.get(key) == val:
                 return f
         return None
 
-def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
-    """Transforms an HTML entity to a character.
-
-    This function receives a match object and is intended to be used with
-    the re.sub() function.
-    """
-    entity = matchobj.group(1)
+# On python2.6 the xml.etree.ElementTree.Element methods don't support
+# the namespace parameter
 
 
-    # Known non-numeric HTML entity
-    if entity in compat_html_entities.name2codepoint:
-        return compat_chr(compat_html_entities.name2codepoint[entity])
 
 
-    mobj = re.match(u'(?u)#(x?\\d+)', entity)
-    if mobj is not None:
-        numstr = mobj.group(1)
-        if numstr.startswith(u'x'):
-            base = 16
-            numstr = u'0%s' % numstr
+def xpath_with_ns(path, ns_map):
+    components = [c.split(':') for c in path.split('/')]
+    replaced = []
+    for c in components:
+        if len(c) == 1:
+            replaced.append(c[0])
         else:
         else:
-            base = 10
-        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+            ns, tag = c
+            replaced.append('{%s}%s' % (ns_map[ns], tag))
+    return '/'.join(replaced)
 
 
-    # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
-    return (u'&%s;' % entity)
-
-compat_html_parser.locatestarttagend = re.compile(r"""<[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*(?:\s+(?:(?<=['"\s])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*(?:\s*=+\s*(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|(?!['"])[^>\s]*))?\s*)*)?\s*""", re.VERBOSE) # backport bugfix
-class AttrParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
-    """Modified HTMLParser that isolates a tag with the specified attribute"""
-    def __init__(self, attribute, value):
-        self.attribute = attribute
-        self.value = value
-        self.result = None
-        self.started = False
-        self.depth = {}
-        self.html = None
-        self.watch_startpos = False
-        self.error_count = 0
-        compat_html_parser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
-
-    def error(self, message):
-        if self.error_count > 10 or self.started:
-            raise compat_html_parser.HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
-        self.rawdata = '\n'.join(self.html.split('\n')[self.getpos()[0]:]) # skip one line
-        self.error_count += 1
-        self.goahead(1)
-
-    def loads(self, html):
-        self.html = html
-        self.feed(html)
-        self.close()
-
-    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
-        attrs = dict(attrs)
-        if self.started:
-            self.find_startpos(None)
-        if self.attribute in attrs and attrs[self.attribute] == self.value:
-            self.result = [tag]
-            self.started = True
-            self.watch_startpos = True
-        if self.started:
-            if not tag in self.depth: self.depth[tag] = 0
-            self.depth[tag] += 1
-
-    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
-        if self.started:
-            if tag in self.depth: self.depth[tag] -= 1
-            if self.depth[self.result[0]] == 0:
-                self.started = False
-                self.result.append(self.getpos())
-
-    def find_startpos(self, x):
-        """Needed to put the start position of the result (self.result[1])
-        after the opening tag with the requested id"""
-        if self.watch_startpos:
-            self.watch_startpos = False
-            self.result.append(self.getpos())
-    handle_entityref = handle_charref = handle_data = handle_comment = \
-    handle_decl = handle_pi = unknown_decl = find_startpos
-
-    def get_result(self):
-        if self.result is None:
-            return None
-        if len(self.result) != 3:
+
+def xpath_text(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False):
+    if sys.version_info < (2, 7):  # Crazy 2.6
+        xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+
+    n = node.find(xpath)
+    if n is None or n.text is None:
+        if fatal:
+            name = xpath if name is None else name
+            raise ExtractorError('Could not find XML element %s' % name)
+        else:
             return None
             return None
-        lines = self.html.split('\n')
-        lines = lines[self.result[1][0]-1:self.result[2][0]]
-        lines[0] = lines[0][self.result[1][1]:]
-        if len(lines) == 1:
-            lines[-1] = lines[-1][:self.result[2][1]-self.result[1][1]]
-        lines[-1] = lines[-1][:self.result[2][1]]
-        return '\n'.join(lines).strip()
-# Hack for https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/662
-if sys.version_info < (2, 7, 3):
-    AttrParser.parse_endtag = (lambda self, i:
-        i + len("</scr'+'ipt>")
-        if self.rawdata[i:].startswith("</scr'+'ipt>")
-        else compat_html_parser.HTMLParser.parse_endtag(self, i))
+    return n.text
+
 
 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)
 
 
 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)
 
+
 def get_element_by_attribute(attribute, value, html):
     """Return the content of the tag with the specified attribute in the passed HTML document"""
 def get_element_by_attribute(attribute, value, html):
     """Return the content of the tag with the specified attribute in the passed HTML document"""
-    parser = AttrParser(attribute, value)
-    try:
-        parser.loads(html)
-    except compat_html_parser.HTMLParseError:
-        pass
-    return parser.get_result()
+
+    m = re.search(r'''(?xs)
+        <([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*>
+        (?P<content>.*?)
+        </\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)
 
 
 def clean_html(html):
     """Clean an HTML snippet into a readable string"""
 
 
 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 <br />
     html = html.replace('\n', ' ')
     html = re.sub(r'\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
     # Newline vs <br />
     html = html.replace('\n', ' ')
     html = re.sub(r'\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
@@ -359,7 +241,7 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
     It returns the tuple (stream, definitive_file_name).
     """
     try:
     It returns the tuple (stream, definitive_file_name).
     """
     try:
-        if filename == u'-':
+        if filename == '-':
             if sys.platform == 'win32':
                 import msvcrt
                 msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
             if sys.platform == 'win32':
                 import msvcrt
                 msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
@@ -372,9 +254,9 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
 
         # In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
         alt_filename = os.path.join(
 
         # In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
         alt_filename = os.path.join(
-                        re.sub(u'[/<>:"\\|\\\\?\\*]', u'#', path_part)
-                        for path_part in os.path.split(filename)
-                       )
+            re.sub('[/<>:"\\|\\\\?\\*]', '#', path_part)
+            for path_part in os.path.split(filename)
+        )
         if alt_filename == filename:
             raise
         else:
         if alt_filename == filename:
             raise
         else:
@@ -391,6 +273,7 @@ def timeconvert(timestr):
         timestamp = email.utils.mktime_tz(timetuple)
     return timestamp
 
         timestamp = email.utils.mktime_tz(timetuple)
     return timestamp
 
+
 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.
 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.
@@ -411,7 +294,9 @@ def sanitize_filename(s, restricted=False, is_id=False):
             return '_'
         return char
 
             return '_'
         return char
 
-    result = u''.join(map(replace_insane, s))
+    # 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:
             result = result.replace('__', '_')
     if not is_id:
         while '__' in result:
             result = result.replace('__', '_')
@@ -419,10 +304,13 @@ 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:]
         # Common case of "Foreign band name - English song title"
         if restricted and result.startswith('-_'):
             result = result[2:]
+        if result.startswith('-'):
+            result = '_' + result[len('-'):]
         if not result:
             result = '_'
     return result
 
         if not result:
             result = '_'
     return result
 
+
 def orderedSet(iterable):
     """ Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
     res = []
 def orderedSet(iterable):
     """ Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
     res = []
@@ -431,36 +319,72 @@ def orderedSet(iterable):
             res.append(el)
     return res
 
             res.append(el)
     return res
 
+
+def _htmlentity_transform(entity):
+    """Transforms an HTML entity to a character."""
+    # 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)
+    if mobj is not None:
+        numstr = mobj.group(1)
+        if numstr.startswith('x'):
+            base = 16
+            numstr = '0%s' % numstr
+        else:
+            base = 10
+        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+
+    # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
+    return ('&%s;' % entity)
+
+
 def unescapeHTML(s):
 def unescapeHTML(s):
-    """
-    @param s a string
-    """
-    assert type(s) == type(u'')
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
+
+    return re.sub(
+        r'&([^;]+);', lambda m: _htmlentity_transform(m.group(1)), s)
 
 
-    result = re.sub(u'(?u)&(.+?);', htmlentity_transform, s)
-    return result
 
 
-def encodeFilename(s):
+def encodeFilename(s, for_subprocess=False):
     """
     @param s The name of the file
     """
 
     """
     @param s The name of the file
     """
 
-    assert type(s) == type(u'')
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
 
     # Python 3 has a Unicode API
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
         return s
 
     if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion()[0] >= 5:
 
     # Python 3 has a Unicode API
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
         return s
 
     if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion()[0] >= 5:
-        # Pass u'' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up
+        # 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.)
         # (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would
         # match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.)
-        return s
+        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()
     else:
         encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
-        if encoding is None:
-            encoding = 'utf-8'
-        return s.encode(encoding, 'ignore')
+    if encoding is None:
+        encoding = 'utf-8'
+    return s.encode(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))
+        s = s.decode('ascii')
+    return encodeFilename(s, True)
+
 
 def decodeOption(optval):
     if optval is None:
 
 def decodeOption(optval):
     if optval is None:
@@ -471,6 +395,7 @@ def decodeOption(optval):
     assert isinstance(optval, compat_str)
     return optval
 
     assert isinstance(optval, compat_str)
     return optval
 
+
 def formatSeconds(secs):
     if secs > 3600:
         return '%d:%02d:%02d' % (secs // 3600, (secs % 3600) // 60, secs % 60)
 def formatSeconds(secs):
     if secs > 3600:
         return '%d:%02d:%02d' % (secs // 3600, (secs % 3600) // 60, secs % 60)
@@ -479,41 +404,77 @@ def formatSeconds(secs):
     else:
         return '%d' % secs
 
     else:
         return '%d' % secs
 
-def make_HTTPS_handler(opts):
-    if sys.version_info < (3,2):
-        # Python's 2.x handler is very simplistic
-        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler()
-    else:
-        import ssl
-        context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
-        context.set_default_verify_paths()
-        
+
+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
+        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_TLSv1)
         context.verify_mode = (ssl.CERT_NONE
         context.verify_mode = (ssl.CERT_NONE
-                               if opts.no_check_certificate
+                               if opts_no_check_certificate
                                else ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
                                else ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
-        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context)
+        context.set_default_verify_paths()
+        return YoutubeDLHTTPSHandler(params, context=context, **kwargs)
+
 
 class ExtractorError(Exception):
     """Error during info extraction."""
 
 class ExtractorError(Exception):
     """Error during info extraction."""
-    def __init__(self, msg, tb=None, expected=False, cause=None):
+
+    def __init__(self, msg, tb=None, expected=False, cause=None, video_id=None):
         """ tb, if given, is the original traceback (so that it can be printed out).
         If expected is set, this is a normal error message and most likely not a bug in youtube-dl.
         """
 
         if sys.exc_info()[0] in (compat_urllib_error.URLError, socket.timeout, UnavailableVideoError):
             expected = True
         """ tb, if given, is the original traceback (so that it can be printed out).
         If expected is set, this is a normal error message and most likely not a bug in youtube-dl.
         """
 
         if sys.exc_info()[0] in (compat_urllib_error.URLError, socket.timeout, UnavailableVideoError):
             expected = True
+        if video_id is not None:
+            msg = video_id + ': ' + msg
+        if cause:
+            msg += ' (caused by %r)' % cause
         if not expected:
         if not expected:
-            msg = msg + u'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.'
+            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.'
         super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
 
         self.traceback = tb
         self.exc_info = sys.exc_info()  # preserve original exception
         self.cause = cause
         super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
 
         self.traceback = tb
         self.exc_info = sys.exc_info()  # preserve original exception
         self.cause = cause
+        self.video_id = video_id
 
     def format_traceback(self):
         if self.traceback is None:
             return None
 
     def format_traceback(self):
         if self.traceback is None:
             return None
-        return u''.join(traceback.format_tb(self.traceback))
+        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 DownloadError(Exception):
@@ -523,6 +484,7 @@ class DownloadError(Exception):
     configured to continue on errors. They will contain the appropriate
     error message.
     """
     configured to continue on errors. They will contain the appropriate
     error message.
     """
+
     def __init__(self, msg, exc_info=None):
         """ exc_info, if given, is the original exception that caused the trouble (as returned by sys.exc_info()). """
         super(DownloadError, self).__init__(msg)
     def __init__(self, msg, exc_info=None):
         """ exc_info, if given, is the original exception that caused the trouble (as returned by sys.exc_info()). """
         super(DownloadError, self).__init__(msg)
@@ -544,9 +506,11 @@ class PostProcessingError(Exception):
     This exception may be raised by PostProcessor's .run() method to
     indicate an error in the postprocessing task.
     """
     This exception may be raised by PostProcessor's .run() method to
     indicate an error in the postprocessing task.
     """
+
     def __init__(self, msg):
         self.msg = msg
 
     def __init__(self, msg):
         self.msg = msg
 
+
 class MaxDownloadsReached(Exception):
     """ --max-downloads limit has been reached. """
     pass
 class MaxDownloadsReached(Exception):
     """ --max-downloads limit has been reached. """
     pass
@@ -576,6 +540,29 @@ class ContentTooShortError(Exception):
         self.downloaded = downloaded
         self.expected = expected
 
         self.downloaded = downloaded
         self.expected = expected
 
+
+def _create_http_connection(ydl_handler, http_class, is_https, *args, **kwargs):
+    hc = http_class(*args, **kwargs)
+    source_address = ydl_handler._params.get('source_address')
+    if source_address is not None:
+        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 = compat_socket_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
+
+
 class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.
 
 class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.
 
@@ -594,6 +581,15 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     public domain.
     """
 
     public domain.
     """
 
+    def __init__(self, params, *args, **kwargs):
+        compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        self._params = params
+
+    def http_open(self, req):
+        return self.do_open(functools.partial(
+            _create_http_connection, self, compat_http_client.HTTPConnection, False),
+            req)
+
     @staticmethod
     def deflate(data):
         try:
     @staticmethod
     def deflate(data):
         try:
@@ -610,19 +606,21 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
         return ret
 
     def http_request(self, req):
         return ret
 
     def http_request(self, req):
-        for h,v in std_headers.items():
-            if h in req.headers:
-                del req.headers[h]
-            req.add_header(h, v)
+        for h, v in std_headers.items():
+            # 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-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']
+
+        if sys.version_info < (2, 7) and '#' in req.get_full_url():
+            # Python 2.6 is brain-dead when it comes to fragments
+            req._Request__original = req._Request__original.partition('#')[0]
+            req._Request__r_type = req._Request__r_type.partition('#')[0]
+
         return req
 
     def http_response(self, req, resp):
         return req
 
     def http_response(self, req, resp):
@@ -657,38 +655,135 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     https_request = http_request
     https_response = http_response
 
     https_request = http_request
     https_response = http_response
 
-def unified_strdate(date_str):
+
+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 = {}
+        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
+        return self.do_open(functools.partial(
+            _create_http_connection, self, self._https_conn_class, True),
+            req, **kwargs)
+
+
+def parse_iso8601(date_str, delimiter='T', timezone=None):
+    """ Return a UNIX timestamp from the given date """
+
+    if date_str is None:
+        return None
+
+    if timezone is None:
+        m = re.search(
+            r'(\.[0-9]+)?(?:Z$| ?(?P<sign>\+|-)(?P<hours>[0-9]{2}):?(?P<minutes>[0-9]{2})$)',
+            date_str)
+        if not m:
+            timezone = datetime.timedelta()
+        else:
+            date_str = date_str[:-len(m.group(0))]
+            if not m.group('sign'):
+                timezone = datetime.timedelta()
+            else:
+                sign = 1 if m.group('sign') == '+' else -1
+                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())
+
+
+def unified_strdate(date_str, day_first=True):
     """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
     """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
+
+    if date_str is None:
+        return None
     upload_date = None
     upload_date = None
-    #Replace commas
-    date_str = date_str.replace(',',' ')
+    # Replace commas
+    date_str = date_str.replace(',', ' ')
     # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
     # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
-    date_str = re.sub(r' (\+|-)[\d]*$', '', date_str)
-    format_expressions = ['%d %B %Y', '%B %d %Y', '%b %d %Y', '%Y-%m-%d', '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S', '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M']
+    date_str = re.sub(r' ?(\+|-)[0-9]{2}:?[0-9]{2}$', '', date_str)
+    # Remove AM/PM + timezone
+    date_str = re.sub(r'(?i)\s*(?:AM|PM)(?:\s+[A-Z]+)?', '', 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',
+        '%Y/%m/%d',
+        '%Y/%m/%d %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',
+    ]
+    if day_first:
+        format_expressions.extend([
+            '%d.%m.%Y',
+            '%d/%m/%Y',
+            '%d/%m/%y',
+            '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S',
+        ])
+    else:
+        format_expressions.extend([
+            '%m.%d.%Y',
+            '%m/%d/%Y',
+            '%m/%d/%y',
+            '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S',
+        ])
     for expression in format_expressions:
         try:
             upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
     for expression in format_expressions:
         try:
             upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
-        except:
+        except ValueError:
             pass
             pass
+    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
 
     return upload_date
 
-def determine_ext(url, default_ext=u'unknown_video'):
-    guess = url.partition(u'?')[0].rpartition(u'.')[2]
+
+def determine_ext(url, default_ext='unknown_video'):
+    if url is None:
+        return default_ext
+    guess = url.partition('?')[0].rpartition('.')[2]
     if re.match(r'^[A-Za-z0-9]+$', guess):
         return guess
     else:
         return default_ext
 
     if re.match(r'^[A-Za-z0-9]+$', guess):
         return guess
     else:
         return default_ext
 
+
 def subtitles_filename(filename, sub_lang, sub_format):
 def subtitles_filename(filename, sub_lang, sub_format):
-    return filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + u'.' + sub_lang + u'.' + sub_format
+    return filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + '.' + sub_lang + '.' + sub_format
+
 
 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()
 
 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
         return today
+    if date_str == 'yesterday':
+        return today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
     match = re.match('(now|today)(?P<sign>[+-])(?P<time>\d+)(?P<unit>day|week|month|year)(s)?', date_str)
     if match is not None:
         sign = match.group('sign')
     match = re.match('(now|today)(?P<sign>[+-])(?P<time>\d+)(?P<unit>day|week|month|year)(s)?', date_str)
     if match is not None:
         sign = match.group('sign')
@@ -696,7 +791,7 @@ def date_from_str(date_str):
         if sign == '-':
             time = -time
         unit = match.group('unit')
         if sign == '-':
             time = -time
         unit = match.group('unit')
-        #A bad aproximation?
+        # A bad aproximation?
         if unit == 'month':
             unit = 'day'
             time *= 30
         if unit == 'month':
             unit = 'day'
             time *= 30
@@ -707,9 +802,21 @@ def date_from_str(date_str):
         delta = datetime.timedelta(**{unit: time})
         return today + delta
     return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y%m%d").date()
         delta = datetime.timedelta(**{unit: time})
         return today + delta
     return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y%m%d").date()
-    
+
+
+def hyphenate_date(date_str):
+    """
+    Convert a date in 'YYYYMMDD' format to 'YYYY-MM-DD' format"""
+    match = re.match(r'^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)$', date_str)
+    if match is not None:
+        return '-'.join(match.groups())
+    else:
+        return date_str
+
+
 class DateRange(object):
     """Represents a time interval between two dates"""
 class DateRange(object):
     """Represents a time interval between two dates"""
+
     def __init__(self, start=None, end=None):
         """start and end must be strings in the format accepted by date"""
         if start is not None:
     def __init__(self, start=None, end=None):
         """start and end must be strings in the format accepted by date"""
         if start is not None:
@@ -722,17 +829,20 @@ class DateRange(object):
             self.end = datetime.datetime.max.date()
         if self.start > self.end:
             raise ValueError('Date range: "%s" , the start date must be before the end date' % self)
             self.end = datetime.datetime.max.date()
         if self.start > self.end:
             raise ValueError('Date range: "%s" , the start date must be before the end date' % self)
+
     @classmethod
     def day(cls, day):
         """Returns a range that only contains the given day"""
     @classmethod
     def day(cls, day):
         """Returns a range that only contains the given day"""
-        return cls(day,day)
+        return cls(day, day)
+
     def __contains__(self, date):
         """Check if the date is in the range"""
         if not isinstance(date, datetime.date):
             date = date_from_str(date)
         return self.start <= date <= self.end
     def __contains__(self, date):
         """Check if the date is in the range"""
         if not isinstance(date, datetime.date):
             date = date_from_str(date)
         return self.start <= date <= self.end
+
     def __str__(self):
     def __str__(self):
-        return '%s - %s' % ( self.start.isoformat(), self.end.isoformat())
+        return '%s - %s' % (self.start.isoformat(), self.end.isoformat())
 
 
 def platform_name():
 
 
 def platform_name():
@@ -745,6 +855,103 @@ def platform_name():
     return res
 
 
     return res
 
 
+def _windows_write_string(s, out):
+    """ Returns True if the string was written using special methods,
+    False if it has yet to be written out."""
+    # Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/3259271/35070
+
+    import ctypes
+    import ctypes.wintypes
+
+    WIN_OUTPUT_IDS = {
+        1: -11,
+        2: -12,
+    }
+
+    try:
+        fileno = out.fileno()
+    except AttributeError:
+        # If the output stream doesn't have a fileno, it's virtual
+        return False
+    except io.UnsupportedOperation:
+        # Some strange Windows pseudo files?
+        return False
+    if fileno not in WIN_OUTPUT_IDS:
+        return False
+
+    GetStdHandle = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(
+        ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD)(
+        (b"GetStdHandle", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    h = GetStdHandle(WIN_OUTPUT_IDS[fileno])
+
+    WriteConsoleW = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(
+        ctypes.wintypes.BOOL, ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE, ctypes.wintypes.LPWSTR,
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
+        ctypes.wintypes.LPVOID)((b"WriteConsoleW", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    written = ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0)
+
+    GetFileType = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD)((b"GetFileType", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    FILE_TYPE_CHAR = 0x0002
+    FILE_TYPE_REMOTE = 0x8000
+    GetConsoleMode = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(
+        ctypes.wintypes.BOOL, ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE,
+        ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD))(
+        (b"GetConsoleMode", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(-1).value
+
+    def not_a_console(handle):
+        if handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE or handle is None:
+            return True
+        return ((GetFileType(handle) & ~FILE_TYPE_REMOTE) != FILE_TYPE_CHAR or
+                GetConsoleMode(handle, ctypes.byref(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD())) == 0)
+
+    if not_a_console(h):
+        return False
+
+    def next_nonbmp_pos(s):
+        try:
+            return next(i for i, c in enumerate(s) if ord(c) > 0xffff)
+        except StopIteration:
+            return len(s)
+
+    while s:
+        count = min(next_nonbmp_pos(s), 1024)
+
+        ret = WriteConsoleW(
+            h, s, count if count else 2, ctypes.byref(written), None)
+        if ret == 0:
+            raise OSError('Failed to write string')
+        if not count:  # We just wrote a non-BMP character
+            assert written.value == 2
+            s = s[1:]
+        else:
+            assert written.value > 0
+            s = s[written.value:]
+    return True
+
+
+def write_string(s, out=None, encoding=None):
+    if out is None:
+        out = sys.stderr
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
+
+    if sys.platform == 'win32' and encoding is None and hasattr(out, 'fileno'):
+        if _windows_write_string(s, out):
+            return
+
+    if ('b' in getattr(out, 'mode', '') or
+            sys.version_info[0] < 3):  # Python 2 lies about mode of sys.stderr
+        byt = s.encode(encoding or preferredencoding(), 'ignore')
+        out.write(byt)
+    elif hasattr(out, 'buffer'):
+        enc = encoding or getattr(out, 'encoding', None) or preferredencoding()
+        byt = s.encode(enc, 'ignore')
+        out.buffer.write(byt)
+    else:
+        out.write(s)
+    out.flush()
+
+
 def bytes_to_intlist(bs):
     if not bs:
         return []
 def bytes_to_intlist(bs):
     if not bs:
         return []
@@ -757,7 +964,823 @@ def bytes_to_intlist(bs):
 def intlist_to_bytes(xs):
     if not xs:
         return b''
 def intlist_to_bytes(xs):
     if not xs:
         return b''
-    if isinstance(chr(0), bytes):  # Python 2
-        return ''.join([chr(x) for x in xs])
+    return struct_pack('%dB' % len(xs), *xs)
+
+
+# Cross-platform file locking
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    import ctypes.wintypes
+    import msvcrt
+
+    class OVERLAPPED(ctypes.Structure):
+        _fields_ = [
+            ('Internal', ctypes.wintypes.LPVOID),
+            ('InternalHigh', ctypes.wintypes.LPVOID),
+            ('Offset', ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
+            ('OffsetHigh', ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
+            ('hEvent', ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE),
+        ]
+
+    kernel32 = ctypes.windll.kernel32
+    LockFileEx = kernel32.LockFileEx
+    LockFileEx.argtypes = [
+        ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE,     # hFile
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # dwFlags
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # dwReserved
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockLow
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockHigh
+        ctypes.POINTER(OVERLAPPED)  # Overlapped
+    ]
+    LockFileEx.restype = ctypes.wintypes.BOOL
+    UnlockFileEx = kernel32.UnlockFileEx
+    UnlockFileEx.argtypes = [
+        ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE,     # hFile
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # dwReserved
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockLow
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockHigh
+        ctypes.POINTER(OVERLAPPED)  # Overlapped
+    ]
+    UnlockFileEx.restype = ctypes.wintypes.BOOL
+    whole_low = 0xffffffff
+    whole_high = 0x7fffffff
+
+    def _lock_file(f, exclusive):
+        overlapped = OVERLAPPED()
+        overlapped.Offset = 0
+        overlapped.OffsetHigh = 0
+        overlapped.hEvent = 0
+        f._lock_file_overlapped_p = ctypes.pointer(overlapped)
+        handle = msvcrt.get_osfhandle(f.fileno())
+        if not LockFileEx(handle, 0x2 if exclusive else 0x0, 0,
+                          whole_low, whole_high, f._lock_file_overlapped_p):
+            raise OSError('Locking file failed: %r' % ctypes.FormatError())
+
+    def _unlock_file(f):
+        assert f._lock_file_overlapped_p
+        handle = msvcrt.get_osfhandle(f.fileno())
+        if not UnlockFileEx(handle, 0,
+                            whole_low, whole_high, f._lock_file_overlapped_p):
+            raise OSError('Unlocking file failed: %r' % ctypes.FormatError())
+
+else:
+    import fcntl
+
+    def _lock_file(f, exclusive):
+        fcntl.flock(f, fcntl.LOCK_EX if exclusive else fcntl.LOCK_SH)
+
+    def _unlock_file(f):
+        fcntl.flock(f, fcntl.LOCK_UN)
+
+
+class locked_file(object):
+    def __init__(self, filename, mode, encoding=None):
+        assert mode in ['r', 'a', 'w']
+        self.f = io.open(filename, mode, encoding=encoding)
+        self.mode = mode
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        exclusive = self.mode != 'r'
+        try:
+            _lock_file(self.f, exclusive)
+        except IOError:
+            self.f.close()
+            raise
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, etype, value, traceback):
+        try:
+            _unlock_file(self.f)
+        finally:
+            self.f.close()
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(self.f)
+
+    def write(self, *args):
+        return self.f.write(*args)
+
+    def read(self, *args):
+        return self.f.read(*args)
+
+
+def get_filesystem_encoding():
+    encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    return encoding if encoding is not None else 'utf-8'
+
+
+def shell_quote(args):
+    quoted_args = []
+    encoding = get_filesystem_encoding()
+    for a in args:
+        if isinstance(a, bytes):
+            # We may get a filename encoded with 'encodeFilename'
+            a = a.decode(encoding)
+        quoted_args.append(pipes.quote(a))
+    return ' '.join(quoted_args)
+
+
+def takewhile_inclusive(pred, seq):
+    """ Like itertools.takewhile, but include the latest evaluated element
+        (the first element so that Not pred(e)) """
+    for e in seq:
+        yield e
+        if not pred(e):
+            return
+
+
+def smuggle_url(url, data):
+    """ Pass additional data in a URL for internal use. """
+
+    sdata = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(
+        {'__youtubedl_smuggle': json.dumps(data)})
+    return url + '#' + sdata
+
+
+def unsmuggle_url(smug_url, default=None):
+    if '#__youtubedl_smuggle' not in smug_url:
+        return smug_url, default
+    url, _, sdata = smug_url.rpartition('#')
+    jsond = compat_parse_qs(sdata)['__youtubedl_smuggle'][0]
+    data = json.loads(jsond)
+    return url, data
+
+
+def format_bytes(bytes):
+    if bytes is None:
+        return 'N/A'
+    if type(bytes) is str:
+        bytes = float(bytes)
+    if bytes == 0.0:
+        exponent = 0
+    else:
+        exponent = int(math.log(bytes, 1024.0))
+    suffix = ['B', 'KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', 'TiB', 'PiB', 'EiB', 'ZiB', 'YiB'][exponent]
+    converted = float(bytes) / float(1024 ** exponent)
+    return '%.2f%s' % (converted, suffix)
+
+
+def parse_filesize(s):
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+
+    # The lower-case forms are of course incorrect and inofficial,
+    # but we support those too
+    _UNIT_TABLE = {
+        'B': 1,
+        'b': 1,
+        'KiB': 1024,
+        'KB': 1000,
+        'kB': 1024,
+        'Kb': 1000,
+        'MiB': 1024 ** 2,
+        'MB': 1000 ** 2,
+        'mB': 1024 ** 2,
+        'Mb': 1000 ** 2,
+        'GiB': 1024 ** 3,
+        'GB': 1000 ** 3,
+        'gB': 1024 ** 3,
+        'Gb': 1000 ** 3,
+        'TiB': 1024 ** 4,
+        'TB': 1000 ** 4,
+        'tB': 1024 ** 4,
+        'Tb': 1000 ** 4,
+        'PiB': 1024 ** 5,
+        'PB': 1000 ** 5,
+        'pB': 1024 ** 5,
+        'Pb': 1000 ** 5,
+        'EiB': 1024 ** 6,
+        'EB': 1000 ** 6,
+        'eB': 1024 ** 6,
+        'Eb': 1000 ** 6,
+        'ZiB': 1024 ** 7,
+        'ZB': 1000 ** 7,
+        'zB': 1024 ** 7,
+        'Zb': 1000 ** 7,
+        'YiB': 1024 ** 8,
+        'YB': 1000 ** 8,
+        'yB': 1024 ** 8,
+        'Yb': 1000 ** 8,
+    }
+
+    units_re = '|'.join(re.escape(u) for u in _UNIT_TABLE)
+    m = re.match(
+        r'(?P<num>[0-9]+(?:[,.][0-9]*)?)\s*(?P<unit>%s)' % units_re, s)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+
+    num_str = m.group('num').replace(',', '.')
+    mult = _UNIT_TABLE[m.group('unit')]
+    return int(float(num_str) * mult)
+
+
+def get_term_width():
+    columns = compat_getenv('COLUMNS', None)
+    if columns:
+        return int(columns)
+
+    try:
+        sp = subprocess.Popen(
+            ['stty', 'size'],
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        out, err = sp.communicate()
+        return int(out.split()[1])
+    except:
+        pass
+    return None
+
+
+def month_by_name(name):
+    """ Return the number of a month by (locale-independently) English name """
+
+    try:
+        return ENGLISH_MONTH_NAMES.index(name) + 1
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+def month_by_abbreviation(abbrev):
+    """ Return the number of a month by (locale-independently) English
+        abbreviations """
+
+    try:
+        return [s[:3] for s in ENGLISH_MONTH_NAMES].index(abbrev) + 1
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+def fix_xml_ampersands(xml_str):
+    """Replace all the '&' by '&amp;' in XML"""
+    return re.sub(
+        r'&(?!amp;|lt;|gt;|apos;|quot;|#x[0-9a-fA-F]{,4};|#[0-9]{,4};)',
+        '&amp;',
+        xml_str)
+
+
+def setproctitle(title):
+    assert isinstance(title, compat_str)
+    try:
+        libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
+    except OSError:
+        return
+    title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8')
+    buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes))
+    buf.value = title_bytes
+    try:
+        libc.prctl(15, buf, 0, 0, 0)
+    except AttributeError:
+        return  # Strange libc, just skip this
+
+
+def remove_start(s, start):
+    if s.startswith(start):
+        return s[len(start):]
+    return s
+
+
+def remove_end(s, end):
+    if s.endswith(end):
+        return s[:-len(end)]
+    return s
+
+
+def url_basename(url):
+    path = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).path
+    return path.strip('/').split('/')[-1]
+
+
+class HEADRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
+    def get_method(self):
+        return "HEAD"
+
+
+def int_or_none(v, scale=1, default=None, get_attr=None, invscale=1):
+    if get_attr:
+        if v is not None:
+            v = getattr(v, get_attr, None)
+    if v == '':
+        v = None
+    return default if v is None else (int(v) * invscale // scale)
+
+
+def str_or_none(v, default=None):
+    return default if v is None else compat_str(v)
+
+
+def str_to_int(int_str):
+    """ A more relaxed version of int_or_none """
+    if int_str is None:
+        return None
+    int_str = re.sub(r'[,\.\+]', '', int_str)
+    return int(int_str)
+
+
+def float_or_none(v, scale=1, invscale=1, default=None):
+    return default if v is None else (float(v) * invscale / scale)
+
+
+def parse_duration(s):
+    if not isinstance(s, compat_basestring):
+        return None
+
+    s = s.strip()
+
+    m = re.match(
+        r'''(?ix)(?:P?T)?
+        (?:
+            (?P<only_mins>[0-9.]+)\s*(?:mins?|minutes?)\s*|
+            (?P<only_hours>[0-9.]+)\s*(?:hours?)|
+
+            \s*(?P<hours_reversed>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:h]|hours?)\s*(?P<mins_reversed>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:m]|mins?|minutes?)\s*|
+            (?:
+                (?:
+                    (?:(?P<days>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:d]|days?)\s*)?
+                    (?P<hours>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:h]|hours?)\s*
+                )?
+                (?P<mins>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:m]|mins?|minutes?)\s*
+            )?
+            (?P<secs>[0-9]+)(?P<ms>\.[0-9]+)?\s*(?:s|secs?|seconds?)?
+        )$''', s)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    res = 0
+    if m.group('only_mins'):
+        return float_or_none(m.group('only_mins'), invscale=60)
+    if m.group('only_hours'):
+        return float_or_none(m.group('only_hours'), invscale=60 * 60)
+    if m.group('secs'):
+        res += int(m.group('secs'))
+    if m.group('mins_reversed'):
+        res += int(m.group('mins_reversed')) * 60
+    if m.group('mins'):
+        res += int(m.group('mins')) * 60
+    if m.group('hours'):
+        res += int(m.group('hours')) * 60 * 60
+    if m.group('hours_reversed'):
+        res += int(m.group('hours_reversed')) * 60 * 60
+    if m.group('days'):
+        res += int(m.group('days')) * 24 * 60 * 60
+    if m.group('ms'):
+        res += float(m.group('ms'))
+    return res
+
+
+def prepend_extension(filename, ext):
+    name, real_ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
+    return '{0}.{1}{2}'.format(name, ext, real_ext)
+
+
+def check_executable(exe, args=[]):
+    """ Checks if the given binary is installed somewhere in PATH, and returns its name.
+    args can be a list of arguments for a short output (like -version) """
+    try:
+        subprocess.Popen([exe] + args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    return exe
+
+
+def get_exe_version(exe, args=['--version'],
+                    version_re=None, unrecognized='present'):
+    """ Returns the version of the specified executable,
+    or False if the executable is not present """
+    try:
+        out, _ = subprocess.Popen(
+            [exe] + args,
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).communicate()
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    if isinstance(out, bytes):  # Python 2.x
+        out = out.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    return detect_exe_version(out, version_re, unrecognized)
+
+
+def detect_exe_version(output, version_re=None, unrecognized='present'):
+    assert isinstance(output, compat_str)
+    if version_re is None:
+        version_re = r'version\s+([-0-9._a-zA-Z]+)'
+    m = re.search(version_re, output)
+    if m:
+        return m.group(1)
     else:
     else:
-        return bytes(xs)
+        return unrecognized
+
+
+class PagedList(object):
+    def __len__(self):
+        # This is only useful for tests
+        return len(self.getslice())
+
+
+class OnDemandPagedList(PagedList):
+    def __init__(self, pagefunc, pagesize):
+        self._pagefunc = pagefunc
+        self._pagesize = pagesize
+
+    def getslice(self, start=0, end=None):
+        res = []
+        for pagenum in itertools.count(start // self._pagesize):
+            firstid = pagenum * self._pagesize
+            nextfirstid = pagenum * self._pagesize + self._pagesize
+            if start >= nextfirstid:
+                continue
+
+            page_results = list(self._pagefunc(pagenum))
+
+            startv = (
+                start % self._pagesize
+                if firstid <= start < nextfirstid
+                else 0)
+
+            endv = (
+                ((end - 1) % self._pagesize) + 1
+                if (end is not None and firstid <= end <= nextfirstid)
+                else None)
+
+            if startv != 0 or endv is not None:
+                page_results = page_results[startv:endv]
+            res.extend(page_results)
+
+            # A little optimization - if current page is not "full", ie. does
+            # not contain page_size videos then we can assume that this page
+            # is the last one - there are no more ids on further pages -
+            # i.e. no need to query again.
+            if len(page_results) + startv < self._pagesize:
+                break
+
+            # If we got the whole page, but the next page is not interesting,
+            # break out early as well
+            if end == nextfirstid:
+                break
+        return res
+
+
+class InAdvancePagedList(PagedList):
+    def __init__(self, pagefunc, pagecount, pagesize):
+        self._pagefunc = pagefunc
+        self._pagecount = pagecount
+        self._pagesize = pagesize
+
+    def getslice(self, start=0, end=None):
+        res = []
+        start_page = start // self._pagesize
+        end_page = (
+            self._pagecount if end is None else (end // self._pagesize + 1))
+        skip_elems = start - start_page * self._pagesize
+        only_more = None if end is None else end - start
+        for pagenum in range(start_page, end_page):
+            page = list(self._pagefunc(pagenum))
+            if skip_elems:
+                page = page[skip_elems:]
+                skip_elems = None
+            if only_more is not None:
+                if len(page) < only_more:
+                    only_more -= len(page)
+                else:
+                    page = page[:only_more]
+                    res.extend(page)
+                    break
+            res.extend(page)
+        return res
+
+
+def uppercase_escape(s):
+    unicode_escape = codecs.getdecoder('unicode_escape')
+    return re.sub(
+        r'\\U[0-9a-fA-F]{8}',
+        lambda m: unicode_escape(m.group(0))[0],
+        s)
+
+
+def escape_rfc3986(s):
+    """Escape non-ASCII characters as suggested by RFC 3986"""
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and isinstance(s, compat_str):
+        s = s.encode('utf-8')
+    return compat_urllib_parse.quote(s, b"%/;:@&=+$,!~*'()?#[]")
+
+
+def escape_url(url):
+    """Escape URL as suggested by RFC 3986"""
+    url_parsed = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url)
+    return url_parsed._replace(
+        path=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.path),
+        params=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.params),
+        query=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.query),
+        fragment=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.fragment)
+    ).geturl()
+
+try:
+    struct.pack('!I', 0)
+except TypeError:
+    # In Python 2.6 (and some 2.7 versions), struct requires a bytes argument
+    def struct_pack(spec, *args):
+        if isinstance(spec, compat_str):
+            spec = spec.encode('ascii')
+        return struct.pack(spec, *args)
+
+    def struct_unpack(spec, *args):
+        if isinstance(spec, compat_str):
+            spec = spec.encode('ascii')
+        return struct.unpack(spec, *args)
+else:
+    struct_pack = struct.pack
+    struct_unpack = struct.unpack
+
+
+def read_batch_urls(batch_fd):
+    def fixup(url):
+        if not isinstance(url, compat_str):
+            url = url.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+        BOM_UTF8 = '\xef\xbb\xbf'
+        if url.startswith(BOM_UTF8):
+            url = url[len(BOM_UTF8):]
+        url = url.strip()
+        if url.startswith(('#', ';', ']')):
+            return False
+        return url
+
+    with contextlib.closing(batch_fd) as fd:
+        return [url for url in map(fixup, fd) if url]
+
+
+def urlencode_postdata(*args, **kargs):
+    return compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(*args, **kargs).encode('ascii')
+
+
+try:
+    etree_iter = xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.iter
+except AttributeError:  # Python <=2.6
+    etree_iter = lambda n: n.findall('.//*')
+
+
+def parse_xml(s):
+    class TreeBuilder(xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder):
+        def doctype(self, name, pubid, system):
+            pass  # Ignore doctypes
+
+    parser = xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser(target=TreeBuilder())
+    kwargs = {'parser': parser} if sys.version_info >= (2, 7) else {}
+    tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
+    # Fix up XML parser in Python 2.x
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        for n in etree_iter(tree):
+            if n.text is not None:
+                if not isinstance(n.text, compat_str):
+                    n.text = n.text.decode('utf-8')
+    return tree
+
+
+US_RATINGS = {
+    'G': 0,
+    'PG': 10,
+    'PG-13': 13,
+    'R': 16,
+    'NC': 18,
+}
+
+
+def parse_age_limit(s):
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+    m = re.match(r'^(?P<age>\d{1,2})\+?$', s)
+    return int(m.group('age')) if m else US_RATINGS.get(s, None)
+
+
+def strip_jsonp(code):
+    return re.sub(
+        r'(?s)^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\s*\(\s*(.*)\);?\s*?(?://[^\n]*)*$', r'\1', code)
+
+
+def js_to_json(code):
+    def fix_kv(m):
+        v = m.group(0)
+        if v in ('true', 'false', 'null'):
+            return v
+        if v.startswith('"'):
+            return v
+        if v.startswith("'"):
+            v = v[1:-1]
+            v = re.sub(r"\\\\|\\'|\"", lambda m: {
+                '\\\\': '\\\\',
+                "\\'": "'",
+                '"': '\\"',
+            }[m.group(0)], v)
+        return '"%s"' % v
+
+    res = re.sub(r'''(?x)
+        "(?:[^"\\]*(?:\\\\|\\['"nu]))*[^"\\]*"|
+        '(?:[^'\\]*(?:\\\\|\\['"nu]))*[^'\\]*'|
+        [a-zA-Z_][.a-zA-Z_0-9]*
+        ''', fix_kv, code)
+    res = re.sub(r',(\s*\])', lambda m: m.group(1), res)
+    return res
+
+
+def qualities(quality_ids):
+    """ Get a numeric quality value out of a list of possible values """
+    def q(qid):
+        try:
+            return quality_ids.index(qid)
+        except ValueError:
+            return -1
+    return q
+
+
+DEFAULT_OUTTMPL = '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'
+
+
+def limit_length(s, length):
+    """ Add ellipses to overly long strings """
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+    ELLIPSES = '...'
+    if len(s) > length:
+        return s[:length - len(ELLIPSES)] + ELLIPSES
+    return s
+
+
+def version_tuple(v):
+    return tuple(int(e) for e in re.split(r'[-.]', v))
+
+
+def is_outdated_version(version, limit, assume_new=True):
+    if not version:
+        return not assume_new
+    try:
+        return version_tuple(version) < version_tuple(limit)
+    except ValueError:
+        return not assume_new
+
+
+def ytdl_is_updateable():
+    """ Returns if youtube-dl can be updated with -U """
+    from zipimport import zipimporter
+
+    return isinstance(globals().get('__loader__'), zipimporter) or hasattr(sys, 'frozen')
+
+
+def args_to_str(args):
+    # Get a short string representation for a subprocess command
+    return ' '.join(shlex_quote(a) for a in args)
+
+
+def mimetype2ext(mt):
+    _, _, res = mt.rpartition('/')
+
+    return {
+        'x-ms-wmv': 'wmv',
+        'x-mp4-fragmented': 'mp4',
+    }.get(res, res)
+
+
+def urlhandle_detect_ext(url_handle):
+    try:
+        url_handle.headers
+        getheader = lambda h: url_handle.headers[h]
+    except AttributeError:  # Python < 3
+        getheader = url_handle.info().getheader
+
+    cd = getheader('Content-Disposition')
+    if cd:
+        m = re.match(r'attachment;\s*filename="(?P<filename>[^"]+)"', cd)
+        if m:
+            e = determine_ext(m.group('filename'), default_ext=None)
+            if e:
+                return e
+
+    return mimetype2ext(getheader('Content-Type'))
+
+
+def age_restricted(content_limit, age_limit):
+    """ Returns True iff the content should be blocked """
+
+    if age_limit is None:  # No limit set
+        return False
+    if content_limit is None:
+        return False  # Content available for everyone
+    return age_limit < content_limit
+
+
+def is_html(first_bytes):
+    """ Detect whether a file contains HTML by examining its first bytes. """
+
+    BOMS = [
+        (b'\xef\xbb\xbf', 'utf-8'),
+        (b'\x00\x00\xfe\xff', 'utf-32-be'),
+        (b'\xff\xfe\x00\x00', 'utf-32-le'),
+        (b'\xff\xfe', 'utf-16-le'),
+        (b'\xfe\xff', 'utf-16-be'),
+    ]
+    for bom, enc in BOMS:
+        if first_bytes.startswith(bom):
+            s = first_bytes[len(bom):].decode(enc, 'replace')
+            break
+    else:
+        s = first_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+
+    return re.match(r'^\s*<', s)
+
+
+def determine_protocol(info_dict):
+    protocol = info_dict.get('protocol')
+    if protocol is not None:
+        return protocol
+
+    url = info_dict['url']
+    if url.startswith('rtmp'):
+        return 'rtmp'
+    elif url.startswith('mms'):
+        return 'mms'
+    elif url.startswith('rtsp'):
+        return 'rtsp'
+
+    ext = determine_ext(url)
+    if ext == 'm3u8':
+        return 'm3u8'
+    elif ext == 'f4m':
+        return 'f4m'
+
+    return compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url).scheme
+
+
+def render_table(header_row, data):
+    """ Render a list of rows, each as a list of values """
+    table = [header_row] + data
+    max_lens = [max(len(compat_str(v)) for v in col) for col in zip(*table)]
+    format_str = ' '.join('%-' + compat_str(ml + 1) + 's' for ml in max_lens[:-1]) + '%s'
+    return '\n'.join(format_str % tuple(row) for row in table)
+
+
+def _match_one(filter_part, dct):
+    COMPARISON_OPERATORS = {
+        '<': operator.lt,
+        '<=': operator.le,
+        '>': operator.gt,
+        '>=': operator.ge,
+        '=': operator.eq,
+        '!=': operator.ne,
+    }
+    operator_rex = re.compile(r'''(?x)\s*
+        (?P<key>[a-z_]+)
+        \s*(?P<op>%s)(?P<none_inclusive>\s*\?)?\s*
+        (?:
+            (?P<intval>[0-9.]+(?:[kKmMgGtTpPeEzZyY]i?[Bb]?)?)|
+            (?P<strval>(?![0-9.])[a-z0-9A-Z]*)
+        )
+        \s*$
+        ''' % '|'.join(map(re.escape, COMPARISON_OPERATORS.keys())))
+    m = operator_rex.search(filter_part)
+    if m:
+        op = COMPARISON_OPERATORS[m.group('op')]
+        if m.group('strval') is not None:
+            if m.group('op') not in ('=', '!='):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    'Operator %s does not support string values!' % m.group('op'))
+            comparison_value = m.group('strval')
+        else:
+            try:
+                comparison_value = int(m.group('intval'))
+            except ValueError:
+                comparison_value = parse_filesize(m.group('intval'))
+                if comparison_value is None:
+                    comparison_value = parse_filesize(m.group('intval') + 'B')
+                if comparison_value is None:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        'Invalid integer value %r in filter part %r' % (
+                            m.group('intval'), filter_part))
+        actual_value = dct.get(m.group('key'))
+        if actual_value is None:
+            return m.group('none_inclusive')
+        return op(actual_value, comparison_value)
+
+    UNARY_OPERATORS = {
+        '': lambda v: v is not None,
+        '!': lambda v: v is None,
+    }
+    operator_rex = re.compile(r'''(?x)\s*
+        (?P<op>%s)\s*(?P<key>[a-z_]+)
+        \s*$
+        ''' % '|'.join(map(re.escape, UNARY_OPERATORS.keys())))
+    m = operator_rex.search(filter_part)
+    if m:
+        op = UNARY_OPERATORS[m.group('op')]
+        actual_value = dct.get(m.group('key'))
+        return op(actual_value)
+
+    raise ValueError('Invalid filter part %r' % filter_part)
+
+
+def match_str(filter_str, dct):
+    """ Filter a dictionary with a simple string syntax. Returns True (=passes filter) or false """
+
+    return all(
+        _match_one(filter_part, dct) for filter_part in filter_str.split('&'))
+
+
+def match_filter_func(filter_str):
+    def _match_func(info_dict):
+        if match_str(filter_str, info_dict):
+            return None
+        else:
+            video_title = info_dict.get('title', info_dict.get('id', 'video'))
+            return '%s does not pass filter %s, skipping ..' % (video_title, filter_str)
+    return _match_func