From 1d699755e0978f2ec0932ef8d6562394a4799871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:06:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [youtube] Add view_count (Fixes #1781)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 8c0e6f252..1aa549740 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1301,6 +1301,11 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
             else:
                 raise ExtractorError(u'"token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason')
 
+        if 'view_count' in video_info:
+            view_count = int(video_info['view_count'][0])
+        else:
+            view_count = None
+
         # Check for "rental" videos
         if 'ypc_video_rental_bar_text' in video_info and 'author' not in video_info:
             raise ExtractorError(u'"rental" videos not supported')
@@ -1489,6 +1494,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
                 'age_limit':    18 if age_gate else 0,
                 'annotations':  video_annotations,
                 'webpage_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % video_id,
+                'view_count': view_count,
             })
         return results