diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
index abd6a36ee..360113f9c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 import re
 import json
 import itertools
-import socket
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from .subtitles import SubtitlesInfoExtractor
 
 from ..utils import (
-    compat_http_client,
-    compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_request,
     compat_str,
     get_element_by_attribute,
@@ -98,10 +95,11 @@ class DailymotionIE(SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
         }]
 
     def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request('https://api.dailymotion.com/video/%s/subtitles?fields=id,language,url' % video_id)
         try:
-            sub_list = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            sub_list = self._download_webpage(
+                'https://api.dailymotion.com/video/%s/subtitles?fields=id,language,url' % video_id,
+                video_id, note=False)
+        except ExtractorError as err:
             self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
             return {}
         info = json.loads(sub_list)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
index 5ae8b3b16..9a3c54b65 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
-import socket
-
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 
 from ..utils import (
-    compat_http_client,
-    compat_urllib_error,
-    compat_urllib_request,
     compat_str,
+    ExtractorError,
 )
 
 
@@ -52,8 +48,8 @@ class SubtitlesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
     def _request_subtitle_url(self, sub_lang, url):
         """ makes the http request for the subtitle """
         try:
-            sub = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            sub = self._download_webpage(url, None, note=False)
+        except ExtractorError as err:
             self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to download video subtitles for %s: %s' % (sub_lang, compat_str(err)))
             return
         if not sub:
@@ -88,5 +84,3 @@ class SubtitlesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
         elif self._downloader.params.get('writeautomaticsub', False):
             video_subtitles = self._request_automatic_caption(video_id, video_webpage)
         return video_subtitles
-
-
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 3bba45b79..d06cc49c4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -454,10 +454,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
             return self._decrypt_signature(s)
 
     def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&type=list&v=%s' % video_id)
         try:
-            sub_list = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            sub_list = self._download_webpage(
+                'http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&type=list&v=%s' % video_id,
+                video_id, note=False)
+        except ExtractorError as err:
             self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
             return {}
         lang_list = re.findall(r'name="([^"]*)"[^>]+lang_code="([\w\-]+)"', sub_list)