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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py index ee8783ffd..0fc39163e 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py +++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py @@ -2188,11 +2188,12 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor): self.report_extraction(showName) try: - webPage = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() + webPageBytes = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err: self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: ' + unicode(err)) return + webPage = webPageBytes.decode('utf-8') descMatch = re.search('<meta name="description" content="([^"]*)"', webPage) description = unescapeHTML(descMatch.group(1)) imgMatch = re.search('<meta property="og:image" content="([^"]*)"', webPage) |