Fix some IEs that didn't return the uploade_date in the YYYYMMDD format

Create a function unified_strdate in utils.py to fix these problems
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Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz 2013-04-27 15:14:20 +02:00
parent bd55852517
commit bf50b0383e
3 changed files with 29 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -569,7 +569,22 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
https_request = http_request
https_response = http_response
def unified_strdate(date_str):
"""Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
upload_date = None
#Replace commas
date_str = date_str.replace(',',' ')
# %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
date_str = re.sub(r' (\+|-)[\d]*$', '', date_str)
format_expressions = ['%d %B %Y', '%B %d %Y', '%b %d %Y', '%Y-%m-%d', '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S']
for expression in format_expressions:
try:
upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
except:
pass
return upload_date
def date_from_str(date_str):
"""Return a datetime object from a string in the format YYYYMMDD"""
return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y%m%d").date()