|  | @@ -264,13 +264,18 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
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				|  |  |              srt_lang = list(srt_lang_list.keys())[0]
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				|  |  |          if not srt_lang in srt_lang_list:
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				|  |  |              return (u'WARNING: no closed captions found in the specified language', None)
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				|  |  | -        request = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang=%s&name=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, srt_lang_list[srt_lang], video_id))
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				|  |  | +        params = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({
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				|  |  | +            'lang': srt_lang,
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				|  |  | +            'name': srt_lang_list[srt_lang].encode('utf-8'),
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				|  |  | +            'v': video_id,
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				|  |  | +        })
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				|  |  | +        url = 'http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?' + params
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				|  |  |          try:
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				|  |  | -            srt_xml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
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				|  |  | +            srt_xml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
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				|  |  |          except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
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				|  |  |              return (u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err), None)
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				|  |  |          if not srt_xml:
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				|  |  | -            return (u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles', None)
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				|  |  | +            return (u'WARNING: Did not fetch video subtitles', None)
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				|  |  |          return (None, self._closed_captions_xml_to_srt(srt_xml))
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				|  |  |      def _print_formats(self, formats):
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