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

11 years ago · 7b670a4483
parent 69fc019f26
commit 7b670a4483
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@ -569,6 +569,10 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
        video_description = get_element_by_id("eow-description", video_webpage)
        if video_description:
            video_description = clean_html(video_description)
+        else:
+            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''