]> Raphaƫl G. Git Repositories - youtubedl/blobdiff - youtube_dl/utils.py
Imported Upstream version 2014.02.17
[youtubedl] / youtube_dl / utils.py
index 66ae41e319e39d7c75597a31034315f996f00797..057cd20d1d70977dd9e56e3d857907a648b228c8 100644 (file)
@@ -1,19 +1,27 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+import ctypes
+import datetime
+import email.utils
 import errno
 import gzip
+import itertools
 import io
 import json
 import locale
+import math
 import os
+import pipes
+import platform
 import re
+import ssl
+import socket
+import struct
+import subprocess
 import sys
 import traceback
 import zlib
-import email.utils
-import socket
-import datetime
 
 try:
     import urllib.request as compat_urllib_request
@@ -35,6 +43,11 @@ try:
 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
@@ -55,6 +68,17 @@ try:
 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 urllib.request import urlretrieve as compat_urlretrieve
+except ImportError:  # Python 2
+    from urllib import urlretrieve as compat_urlretrieve
+
+
 try:
     from subprocess import DEVNULL
     compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL = lambda: DEVNULL
@@ -158,7 +182,7 @@ def compat_ord(c):
 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/20100101 Firefox/10.0 (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',
@@ -198,6 +222,33 @@ else:
         with open(fn, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
             json.dump(obj, f)
 
+if sys.version_info >= (2,7):
+    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)
+        return node.find(expr)
+else:
+    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
+        for f in node.findall(xpath):
+            if f.attrib.get(key) == val:
+                return f
+        return None
+
+# On python2.6 the xml.etree.ElementTree.Element methods don't support
+# the namespace parameter
+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:
+            ns, tag = c
+            replaced.append('{%s}%s' % (ns_map[ns], tag))
+    return '/'.join(replaced)
+
 def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
     """Transforms an HTML entity to a character.
 
@@ -224,7 +275,17 @@ def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
     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):
+class BaseHTMLParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
+    def __init(self):
+        compat_html_parser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        self.html = None
+
+    def loads(self, html):
+        self.html = html
+        self.feed(html)
+        self.close()
+
+class AttrParser(BaseHTMLParser):
     """Modified HTMLParser that isolates a tag with the specified attribute"""
     def __init__(self, attribute, value):
         self.attribute = attribute
@@ -232,10 +293,9 @@ class AttrParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
         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)
+        BaseHTMLParser.__init__(self)
 
     def error(self, message):
         if self.error_count > 10 or self.started:
@@ -244,11 +304,6 @@ class AttrParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
         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:
@@ -309,6 +364,38 @@ def get_element_by_attribute(attribute, value, html):
         pass
     return parser.get_result()
 
+class MetaParser(BaseHTMLParser):
+    """
+    Modified HTMLParser that isolates a meta tag with the specified name 
+    attribute.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        BaseHTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        self.name = name
+        self.content = None
+        self.result = None
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+        if tag != 'meta':
+            return
+        attrs = dict(attrs)
+        if attrs.get('name') == self.name:
+            self.result = attrs.get('content')
+
+    def get_result(self):
+        return self.result
+
+def get_meta_content(name, html):
+    """
+    Return the content attribute from the meta tag with the given name attribute.
+    """
+    parser = MetaParser(name)
+    try:
+        parser.loads(html)
+    except compat_html_parser.HTMLParseError:
+        pass
+    return parser.get_result()
+
 
 def clean_html(html):
     """Clean an HTML snippet into a readable string"""
@@ -415,12 +502,13 @@ def unescapeHTML(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
     """
 
-    assert type(s) == type(u'')
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
 
     # Python 3 has a Unicode API
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
@@ -430,12 +518,18 @@ def encodeFilename(s):
         # Pass u'' 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.)
-        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()
-        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 decodeOption(optval):
     if optval is None:
@@ -454,31 +548,57 @@ def formatSeconds(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()
+
+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_SSLv3)
+                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)
     else:
-        import ssl
-        context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
-        context.set_default_verify_paths()
-        
+        context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)
         context.verify_mode = (ssl.CERT_NONE
-                               if opts.no_check_certificate
+                               if opts_no_check_certificate
                                else ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
-        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context)
+        context.set_default_verify_paths()
+        try:
+            context.load_default_certs()
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass  # Python < 3.4
+        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context, **kwargs)
 
 class ExtractorError(Exception):
     """Error during info extraction."""
-    def __init__(self, msg, tb=None):
-        """ tb, if given, is the original traceback (so that it can be printed out). """
-
-        if not sys.exc_info()[0] in (compat_urllib_error.URLError, socket.timeout, UnavailableVideoError):
-            msg = msg + u'; please report this issue on GitHub.'
+    def __init__(self, msg, tb=None, expected=False, cause=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
+        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.'
         super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
 
         self.traceback = tb
         self.exc_info = sys.exc_info()  # preserve original exception
+        self.cause = cause
 
     def format_traceback(self):
         if self.traceback is None:
@@ -486,6 +606,11 @@ class ExtractorError(Exception):
         return u''.join(traceback.format_tb(self.traceback))
 
 
+class RegexNotFoundError(ExtractorError):
+    """Error when a regex didn't match"""
+    pass
+
+
 class DownloadError(Exception):
     """Download Error exception.
 
@@ -599,8 +724,23 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
         old_resp = resp
         # gzip
         if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'gzip':
-            gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(resp.read()), mode='r')
-            resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+            content = resp.read()
+            gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(content), mode='rb')
+            try:
+                uncompressed = io.BytesIO(gz.read())
+            except IOError as original_ioerror:
+                # There may be junk add the end of the file
+                # See http://stackoverflow.com/q/4928560/35070 for details
+                for i in range(1, 1024):
+                    try:
+                        gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(content[:-i]), mode='rb')
+                        uncompressed = io.BytesIO(gz.read())
+                    except IOError:
+                        continue
+                    break
+                else:
+                    raise original_ioerror
+            resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(uncompressed, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
             resp.msg = old_resp.msg
         # deflate
         if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'deflate':
@@ -612,21 +752,51 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     https_request = http_request
     https_response = http_response
 
+
 def unified_strdate(date_str):
     """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
     upload_date = None
     #Replace commas
-    date_str = date_str.replace(',',' ')
+    date_str = date_str.replace(',', ' ')
     # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
-    date_str = re.sub(r' (\+|-)[\d]*$', '', date_str)
-    format_expressions = ['%d %B %Y', '%B %d %Y', '%b %d %Y', '%Y-%m-%d', '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S']
+    date_str = re.sub(r' ?(\+|-)[0-9]{2}:?[0-9]{2}$', '', date_str)
+    format_expressions = [
+        '%d %B %Y',
+        '%d %b %Y',
+        '%B %d %Y',
+        '%b %d %Y',
+        '%Y-%m-%d',
+        '%d/%m/%Y',
+        '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S',
+        '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
+        '%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',
+    ]
     for expression in format_expressions:
         try:
             upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
-        except:
+        except ValueError:
             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
 
+def determine_ext(url, default_ext=u'unknown_video'):
+    guess = url.partition(u'?')[0].rpartition(u'.')[2]
+    if re.match(r'^[A-Za-z0-9]+$', guess):
+        return guess
+    else:
+        return default_ext
+
+def subtitles_filename(filename, sub_lang, sub_format):
+    return filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + u'.' + sub_lang + u'.' + sub_format
+
 def date_from_str(date_str):
     """
     Return a datetime object from a string in the format YYYYMMDD or
@@ -653,6 +823,15 @@ def date_from_str(date_str):
         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"""
     def __init__(self, start=None, end=None):
@@ -678,3 +857,385 @@ class DateRange(object):
         return self.start <= date <= self.end
     def __str__(self):
         return '%s - %s' % ( self.start.isoformat(), self.end.isoformat())
+
+
+def platform_name():
+    """ Returns the platform name as a compat_str """
+    res = platform.platform()
+    if isinstance(res, bytes):
+        res = res.decode(preferredencoding())
+
+    assert isinstance(res, compat_str)
+    return res
+
+
+def write_string(s, out=None):
+    if out is None:
+        out = sys.stderr
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
+
+    if ('b' in getattr(out, 'mode', '') or
+            sys.version_info[0] < 3):  # Python 2 lies about mode of sys.stderr
+        s = s.encode(preferredencoding(), 'ignore')
+    try:
+        out.write(s)
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        # In Windows shells, this can fail even when the codec is just charmap!?
+        # See https://wiki.python.org/moin/PrintFails#Issue
+        if sys.platform == 'win32' and hasattr(out, 'encoding'):
+            s = s.encode(out.encoding, 'ignore').decode(out.encoding)
+            out.write(s)
+        else:
+            raise
+
+    out.flush()
+
+
+def bytes_to_intlist(bs):
+    if not bs:
+        return []
+    if isinstance(bs[0], int):  # Python 3
+        return list(bs)
+    else:
+        return [ord(c) for c in bs]
+
+
+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])
+    else:
+        return bytes(xs)
+
+
+def get_cachedir(params={}):
+    cache_root = os.environ.get('XDG_CACHE_HOME',
+                                os.path.expanduser('~/.cache'))
+    return params.get('cachedir', os.path.join(cache_root, 'youtube-dl'))
+
+
+# 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.lockf(f, fcntl.LOCK_EX if exclusive else fcntl.LOCK_SH)
+
+    def _unlock_file(f):
+        fcntl.lockf(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 shell_quote(args):
+    quoted_args = []
+    encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    if encoding is None:
+        encoding = 'utf-8'
+    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 u' '.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(
+        {u'__youtubedl_smuggle': json.dumps(data)})
+    return url + u'#' + sdata
+
+
+def unsmuggle_url(smug_url, default=None):
+    if not '#__youtubedl_smuggle' in smug_url:
+        return smug_url, default
+    url, _, sdata = smug_url.rpartition(u'#')
+    jsond = compat_parse_qs(sdata)[u'__youtubedl_smuggle'][0]
+    data = json.loads(jsond)
+    return url, data
+
+
+def format_bytes(bytes):
+    if bytes is None:
+        return u'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 = [u'B', u'KiB', u'MiB', u'GiB', u'TiB', u'PiB', u'EiB', u'ZiB', u'YiB'][exponent]
+    converted = float(bytes) / float(1024 ** exponent)
+    return u'%.2f%s' % (converted, suffix)
+
+
+def str_to_int(int_str):
+    int_str = re.sub(r'[,\.]', u'', int_str)
+    return int(int_str)
+
+
+def get_term_width():
+    columns = os.environ.get('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 """
+
+    ENGLISH_NAMES = [
+        u'January', u'February', u'March', u'April', u'May', u'June',
+        u'July', u'August', u'September', u'October', u'November', u'December']
+    try:
+        return ENGLISH_NAMES.index(name) + 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};)',
+        u'&amp;',
+        xml_str)
+
+
+def setproctitle(title):
+    assert isinstance(title, compat_str)
+    try:
+        libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
+    except OSError:
+        return
+    title = title
+    buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title) + 1)
+    buf.value = title.encode('utf-8')
+    try:
+        libc.prctl(15, ctypes.byref(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 url_basename(url):
+    path = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).path
+    return path.strip(u'/').split(u'/')[-1]
+
+
+class HEADRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
+    def get_method(self):
+        return "HEAD"
+
+
+def int_or_none(v, scale=1):
+    return v if v is None else (int(v) // scale)
+
+
+def parse_duration(s):
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+
+    m = re.match(
+        r'(?:(?:(?P<hours>[0-9]+)[:h])?(?P<mins>[0-9]+)[:m])?(?P<secs>[0-9]+)s?$', s)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    res = int(m.group('secs'))
+    if m.group('mins'):
+        res += int(m.group('mins')) * 60
+        if m.group('hours'):
+            res += int(m.group('hours')) * 60 * 60
+    return res
+
+
+def prepend_extension(filename, ext):
+    name, real_ext = os.path.splitext(filename) 
+    return u'{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
+
+
+class PagedList(object):
+    def __init__(self, pagefunc, pagesize):
+        self._pagefunc = pagefunc
+        self._pagesize = pagesize
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        # This is only useful for tests
+        return len(self.getslice())
+
+    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
+
+
+def uppercase_escape(s):
+    return re.sub(
+        r'\\U([0-9a-fA-F]{8})',
+        lambda m: compat_chr(int(m.group(1), base=16)), s)
+
+try:
+    struct.pack(u'!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