From 4d59db5b900fa8f1416cb33328f2f12daf9946c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gorfiend <Gorfiend@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 05:04:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [niconico] Fix extraction on python3 (closes #17393)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
index dbe871f16..76b412ff1 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/niconico.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
                     },
                     'timing_constraint': 'unlimited'
                 }
-            }))
+            }).encode())
 
         resolution = video_quality.get('resolution', {})