From ea74e00b3afe604531419c17eb7291038115a271 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Peukert Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:23:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [youtube] Fix empty description extraction (#26575) (closes #26006) --- youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index 6ae2e58c1..02f3ab61a 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -1264,7 +1264,23 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): 'params': { 'skip_download': True, }, - } + }, + { + # empty description results in an empty string + 'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41yOUIvK2k', + 'info_dict': { + 'id': 'x41yOUIvK2k', + 'ext': 'mp4', + 'title': 'IMG 3456', + 'description': '', + 'upload_date': '20170613', + 'uploader_id': 'ElevageOrVert', + 'uploader': 'ElevageOrVert', + }, + 'params': { + 'skip_download': True, + }, + }, ] def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): @@ -1931,7 +1947,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): ''', replace_url, video_description) video_description = clean_html(video_description) else: - video_description = video_details.get('shortDescription') or self._html_search_meta('description', video_webpage) + video_description = video_details.get('shortDescription') + if video_description is None: + video_description = self._html_search_meta('description', video_webpage) if not smuggled_data.get('force_singlefeed', False): if not self._downloader.params.get('noplaylist'):