Repository: ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Issue:
Bitchute --dateafter flag broken
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 [debug] System config: []
 [debug] User config: []
 [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
 [debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
 [debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
 [debug] Proxy map: {}
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```
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Styxhexenham/', u'--dateafter', u'now-3days', u'-e', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.198-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.7.1908-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.6, ffprobe 3.4.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
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Title says it all. The date feature works on youtube but not bitchute. Thanks for looking into it


Discussion:

Resolving patch:
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
     orderedSet,
+    unified_strdate,
     urlencode_postdata,
 )
 
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ class BitChuteIE(InfoExtractor):
             'description': 'md5:3f21f6fb5b1d17c3dee9cf6b5fe60b3a',
             'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
             'uploader': 'Victoria X Rave',
+            'upload_date': '20170813',
         },
     }, {
         'url': 'https://www.bitchute.com/embed/lbb5G1hjPhw/',
@@ -74,12 +76,17 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
              r'(?s)<p\b[^>]+\bclass=["\']video-author[^>]+>(.+?)</p>'),
             webpage, 'uploader', fatal=False)
 
+        upload_date = unified_strdate(self._search_regex(
+            r'class=["\']video-publish-date[^>]+>[^<]+ at \d+:\d+ UTC on (.+?)\.',
+            webpage, 'upload date', fatal=False))
+
         return {
             'id': video_id,
             'title': title,
             'description': description,
             'thumbnail': thumbnail,
             'uploader': uploader,
+            'upload_date': upload_date,
             'formats': formats,
         }
 


Test patch: