[niconico] Clarify download

11 years ago · bd49928f7a
parent 23e6d50d73
commit bd49928f7a
1 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
        video_id = mobj.group(1)

-        # Get video webpage
-        video_webpage = self._download_webpage(
-            'http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/' + video_id, video_id)
+        # Get video webpage. We are not actually interested in it, but need
+        # the cookies in order to be able to download the info webpage
+        self._download_webpage('http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/' + video_id, video_id)

        video_info_webpage = self._download_webpage(
            'http://ext.nicovideo.jp/api/getthumbinfo/' + video_id, video_id,