import re from .common import InfoExtractor class HowcastIE(InfoExtractor): _VALID_URL = r'(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?howcast\.com/videos/(?P<id>\d+)' def _real_extract(self, url): mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url) video_id = mobj.group('id') webpage_url = 'http://www.howcast.com/videos/' + video_id webpage = self._download_webpage(webpage_url, video_id) self.report_extraction(video_id) video_url = self._search_regex(r'\'?file\'?: "(http://mobile-media\.howcast\.com/[0-9]+\.mp4)', webpage, u'video URL') video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<meta content=(?:"([^"]+)"|\'([^\']+)\') property=\'og:title\'', webpage, u'title') video_description = self._html_search_regex(r'<meta content=(?:"([^"]+)"|\'([^\']+)\') name=\'description\'', webpage, u'description', fatal=False) thumbnail = self._html_search_regex(r'<meta content=\'(.+?)\' property=\'og:image\'', webpage, u'thumbnail', fatal=False) return [{ 'id': video_id, 'url': video_url, 'ext': 'mp4', 'title': video_title, 'description': video_description, 'thumbnail': thumbnail, }]