diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index acd994bd7..ca6d832a4 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ from youtube_dl.utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     find_xpath_attr,
     fix_xml_ampersands,
+    float_or_none,
     get_element_by_class,
     get_element_by_attribute,
     get_elements_by_class,
     get_elements_by_attribute,
     InAdvancePagedList,
+    int_or_none,
     intlist_to_bytes,
     is_html,
     js_to_json,
@@ -468,6 +470,21 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
             shell_quote(args),
             """ffmpeg -i 'ñ€ß'"'"'.mp4'""" if compat_os_name != 'nt' else '''ffmpeg -i "ñ€ß'.mp4"''')
 
+    def test_float_or_none(self):
+        self.assertEqual(float_or_none('42.42'), 42.42)
+        self.assertEqual(float_or_none('42'), 42.0)
+        self.assertEqual(float_or_none(''), None)
+        self.assertEqual(float_or_none(None), None)
+        self.assertEqual(float_or_none([]), None)
+        self.assertEqual(float_or_none(set()), None)
+
+    def test_int_or_none(self):
+        self.assertEqual(int_or_none('42'), 42)
+        self.assertEqual(int_or_none(''), None)
+        self.assertEqual(int_or_none(None), None)
+        self.assertEqual(int_or_none([]), None)
+        self.assertEqual(int_or_none(set()), None)
+
     def test_str_to_int(self):
         self.assertEqual(str_to_int('123,456'), 123456)
         self.assertEqual(str_to_int('123.456'), 123456)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index f2726a579..71713f63a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1922,7 +1922,7 @@ def int_or_none(v, scale=1, default=None, get_attr=None, invscale=1):
         return default
     try:
         return int(v) * invscale // scale
-    except ValueError:
+    except (ValueError, TypeError):
         return default
 
 
@@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ def float_or_none(v, scale=1, invscale=1, default=None):
         return default
     try:
         return float(v) * invscale / scale
-    except ValueError:
+    except (ValueError, TypeError):
         return default