youtube-dl

commit 7b670a4483d589af822e7fc061d1d3d3aafd36f0
parent 69fc019f268116a4b5dcccca00ddf9153748c305
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:54:17 +0200

YouTube: Fall back to <meta> description if video is rated (Fixes #800)

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youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
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6
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1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -570,7 +570,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
         if video_description:
             video_description = clean_html(video_description)
         else:
-            video_description = u''
+            fd_mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="([^"]+)"', video_webpage)
+            if fd_mobj:
+                video_description = unescapeHTML(fd_mobj.group(1))
+            else:
+                video_description = u''
 
         # subtitles
         video_subtitles = None