From: Sergey M․ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:38:49 +0000 (+0700) Subject: [generic] Add comment for unescaping webpage contents X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=143907304908ee34bfcfe4914cda596d235291f8;p=youtube-dl [generic] Add comment for unescaping webpage contents --- diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py index a3de0ba60..300485c7f 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py @@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): except compat_xml_parse_error: pass + # Sometimes embedded video player is hidden behind percent encoding + # (e.g. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2448) + # Unescaping the whole page allows to handle those cases in a generic way webpage = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(webpage) # it's tempting to parse this further, but you would