youtube-dl

commit 9c2ade40de53bae865c5267642651c81d16e48a8
parent aa32314d09cf0ab3fad1efc2c5657e6704a7e47b
Author: Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  3 Sep 2013 11:11:36 +0200

[vimeo] Handle Assertions Error when trying to get the description

In some pages the html tags are not closed, python 2.6 cannot handle it.

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youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
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1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
@@ -148,9 +148,17 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
             _, video_thumbnail = sorted((int(width), t_url) for (width, t_url) in config["video"]["thumbs"].items())[-1]
 
         # Extract video description
-        video_description = get_element_by_attribute("itemprop", "description", webpage)
-        if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description)
-        else: video_description = u''
+        video_description = None
+        try:
+            video_description = get_element_by_attribute("itemprop", "description", webpage)
+            if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description)
+        except AssertionError as err:
+            # On some pages like (http://player.vimeo.com/video/54469442) the
+            # html tags are not closed, python 2.6 cannot handle it
+            if err.args[0] == 'we should not get here!':
+                pass
+            else:
+                raise
 
         # Extract upload date
         video_upload_date = None