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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2014-03-03 12:06:28 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2014-03-03 12:06:28 +0100
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Add display_id field
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py3
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 42cbcf699..47205efae 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -675,6 +675,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
             info_dict['playlist'] = None
             info_dict['playlist_index'] = None
 
+        if 'display_id' not in info_dict:
+            info_dict['display_id'] = info_dict['id']
+
         # This extractors handle format selection themselves
         if info_dict['extractor'] in ['Youku']:
             if download:
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 84fca8ba0..080c9bdfa 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
     The following fields are optional:
 
+    display_id      An alternative identifier for the video, not necessarily
+                    unique, but available before title. Typically, id is
+                    something like "4234987", title "Dancing naked mole rats",
+                    and display_id "dancing-naked-mole-rats"
     thumbnails:     A list of dictionaries (with the entries "resolution" and
                     "url") for the varying thumbnails
     thumbnail:      Full URL to a video thumbnail image.