[extractor/youtube:tab] Let `approximate_date` return timestamp

[yt-dlp.git] / yt_dlp / extractor / common.py

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index 10d44d95a7de249f4ebb5a64caedf8f9f88aec53..ab8def57da500783c99cff9f5c42e7a45776c3e0 100644 (file)
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -3843,8 +3843,8 @@ def _configuration_arg(self, key, default=NO_DEFAULT, *, ie_key=None, casesense=
         @param default      The default value to return when the key is not present (default: [])
         @param casesense    When false, the values are converted to lower case
         '''
-        val = traverse_obj(
-            self._downloader.params, ('extractor_args', (ie_key or self.ie_key()).lower(), key))
+        ie_key = ie_key if isinstance(ie_key, str) else (ie_key or self).ie_key()
+        val = traverse_obj(self._downloader.params, ('extractor_args', ie_key.lower(), key))
         if val is None:
             return [] if default is NO_DEFAULT else default
         return list(val) if casesense else [x.lower() for x in val]