youtube-dl

commit 46e28a84caae4820c7352232b048ecb3cbcd4012
parent 17ad2b3fb192d8e13a39971c45248017cb279ab3
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Fri,  4 Oct 2013 11:53:49 +0200

[brightcove] Fix up some broken HTML (#1553)

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youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
         Build a Brightcove url from a xml string containing
         <object class="BrightcoveExperience">{params}</object>
         """
+
+        # Fix up some stupid HTML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1553
+        object_str = re.sub(r'(<param name="[^"]+" value="[^"]+")>',
+                            lambda m: m.group(1) + '/>', object_str)
+
         object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str)
         assert u'BrightcoveExperience' in object_doc.attrib['class']
         params = {'flashID': object_doc.attrib['id'],