[bot] AutoMerging: merge all upstream's changes:

* https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl:
  [compat] add compat_SimpleCookie
  [extractor/common] keep support for non standard JSON-LD VideoObject author values
  [vimeo] improve extraction(closes ytdl-org#28591)
  [extractor/common] fix JSON-LD VideoObject author extraction
  [youku] Update ccode(closes ytdl-org#17852, closes ytdl-org#28447, closes ytdl-org#28460) (ytdl-org#28648)

youtube_dl/compat.py

@@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ def __init__(self, version, name, value, *args, **kwargs):
 except ImportError:  # Python 2
     import Cookie as compat_cookies
 
+if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+    class compat_SimpleCookie(compat_cookies.SimpleCookie):
+        def load(self, rawdata):
+            if isinstance(rawdata, unicode):
+                rawdata = str(rawdata)
+            return super(compat_SimpleCookie, self).load(rawdata)
+else:
+    compat_SimpleCookie = compat_cookies.SimpleCookie
+
 try:
     import html.entities as compat_html_entities
 except ImportError:  # Python 2

youtube_dl/extractor/common.py

@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 
 from ..compat import (
     compat_cookiejar_Cookie,
-    compat_cookies,
     compat_etree_Element,
     compat_etree_fromstring,
     compat_getpass,
     compat_integer_types,
     compat_http_client,
     compat_os_name,
+    compat_SimpleCookie,
     compat_str,
     compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
@@ -1275,14 +1275,19 @@ def extract_interaction_statistic(e):
 
         def extract_video_object(e):
             assert e['@type'] == 'VideoObject'
+            author = e.get('author')
             info.update({
                 'url': url_or_none(e.get('contentUrl')),
                 'title': unescapeHTML(e.get('name')),
                 'description': unescapeHTML(e.get('description')),
                 'thumbnail': url_or_none(e.get('thumbnailUrl') or e.get('thumbnailURL')),
                 'duration': parse_duration(e.get('duration')),
                 'timestamp': unified_timestamp(e.get('uploadDate')),
-                'uploader': str_or_none(e.get('author')),
+                # author can be an instance of 'Organization' or 'Person' types.
+                # both types can have 'name' property(inherited from 'Thing' type). [1]
+                # however some websites are using 'Text' type instead.
+                # 1. https://schema.org/VideoObject
+                'uploader': author.get('name') if isinstance(author, dict) else author if isinstance(author, compat_str) else None,
                 'filesize': float_or_none(e.get('contentSize')),
                 'tbr': int_or_none(e.get('bitrate')),
                 'width': int_or_none(e.get('width')),
@@ -2896,13 +2901,10 @@ def _set_cookie(self, domain, name, value, expire_time=None, port=None,
         self._downloader.cookiejar.set_cookie(cookie)
 
     def _get_cookies(self, url):
-        """ Return a compat_cookies.SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
+        """ Return a compat_SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
         req = sanitized_Request(url)
         self._downloader.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(req)
-        cookie = req.get_header('Cookie')
-        if cookie and sys.version_info[0] == 2:
-            cookie = str(cookie)
-        return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(cookie)
+        return compat_SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
 
     def _apply_first_set_cookie_header(self, url_handle, cookie):
         """