[utils] Support `filter` traversal key

Thx yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10653

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index c4262936e..29d62130a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ from .compat import (
     compat_etree_fromstring,
     compat_etree_iterfind,
     compat_expanduser,
+    compat_filter as filter,
+    compat_filter_fns,
     compat_html_entities,
     compat_html_entities_html5,
     compat_http_client,
@@ -6283,6 +6285,7 @@ def traverse_obj(obj, *paths, **kwargs):
                             Read as: `{key: traverse_obj(obj, path) for key, path in dct.items()}`.
         - `any`-builtin:    Take the first matching object and return it, resetting branching.
         - `all`-builtin:    Take all matching objects and return them as a list, resetting branching.
+        - `filter`-builtin: Return the value if it is truthy, `None` otherwise.
 
         `tuple`, `list`, and `dict` all support nested paths and branches.
 
@@ -6497,6 +6500,11 @@ def traverse_obj(obj, *paths, **kwargs):
                     objs = (list(filtered_objs),)
                 continue
 
+            # filter might be from __builtin__, future_builtins, or itertools.ifilter
+            if key in compat_filter_fns:
+                objs = filter(None, objs)
+                continue
+
             if __debug__ and callable(key):
                 # Verify function signature
                 _try_bind_args(key, None, None)