[blinkx] Add extractor (Fixes #1972)

youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 from .auengine import AUEngineIE
 from .bambuser import BambuserIE, BambuserChannelIE
 from .bandcamp import BandcampIE, BandcampAlbumIE
+from .blinkx import BlinkxIE
 from .bliptv import BlipTVIE, BlipTVUserIE
 from .bloomberg import BloombergIE
 from .breakcom import BreakIE

youtube_dl/extractor/blinkx.py

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import datetime
+import json
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    remove_start,
+)
+
+
+class BlinkxIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://(?:www\.)blinkx\.com/ce/|blinkx:)(?P<id>[^?]+)'
+    _IE_NAME = u'blinkx'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        u'url': u'http://www.blinkx.com/ce/8aQUy7GVFYgFzpKhT0oqsilwOGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenBLaFQwb3FzaWx3OGFRVXk3R1ZGWWdGenB',
+        u'file': u'8aQUy7GV.mp4',
+        u'md5': u'2e9a07364af40163a908edbf10bb2492',
+        u'info_dict': {
+            u"title": u"Police Car Rolls Away",
+            u"uploader": u"stupidvideos.com",
+            u"upload_date": u"20131215",
+            u"description": u"A police car gently rolls away from a fight. Maybe it felt weird being around a confrontation and just had to get out of there!",
+            u"duration": 14.886,
+            u"thumbnails": [{
+                "width": 100,
+                "height": 76,
+                "url": "http://cdn.blinkx.com/stream/b/41/StupidVideos/20131215/1873969261/1873969261_tn_0.jpg",
+            }],
+        },
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        m = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = m.group('id')
+        display_id = video_id[:8]
+
+        api_url = (u'https://apib4.blinkx.com/api.php?action=play_video&' +
+                   u'video=%s' % video_id)
+        data_json = self._download_webpage(api_url, display_id)
+        data = json.loads(data_json)['api']['results'][0]
+        dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(data['pubdate_epoch'])
+        upload_date = dt.strftime('%Y%m%d')
+
+        duration = None
+        thumbnails = []
+        formats = []
+        for m in data['media']:
+            if m['type'] == 'jpg':
+                thumbnails.append({
+                    'url': m['link'],
+                    'width': int(m['w']),
+                    'height': int(m['h']),
+                })
+            elif m['type'] == 'original':
+                duration = m['d']
+            elif m['type'] in ('flv', 'mp4'):
+                vcodec = remove_start(m['vcodec'], 'ff')
+                acodec = remove_start(m['acodec'], 'ff')
+                format_id = (u'%s-%sk-%s' %
+                             (vcodec,
+                              (int(m['vbr']) + int(m['abr'])) // 1000,
+                              m['w']))
+                formats.append({
+                    'format_id': format_id,
+                    'url': m['link'],
+                    'vcodec': vcodec,
+                    'acodec': acodec,
+                    'abr': int(m['abr']) // 1000,
+                    'vbr': int(m['vbr']) // 1000,
+                    'width': int(m['w']),
+                    'height': int(m['h']),
+                })
+        formats.sort(key=lambda f: (f['width'], f['vbr'], f['abr']))
+
+        return {
+            'id': display_id,
+            'fullid': video_id,
+            'title': data['title'],
+            'formats': formats,
+            'uploader': data['channel_name'],
+            'upload_date': upload_date,
+            'description': data.get('description'),
+            'thumbnails': thumbnails,
+            'duration': duration,
+        }

youtube_dl/utils.py

@@ -1077,3 +1077,9 @@ def setproctitle(title):
         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