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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 66f5af000..7fff761bd 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
u"uploader": u"Philipp Hagemeister",
u"uploader_id": u"phihag",
u"upload_date": u"20121002",
- u"description": u"test chars: \"'/\\ä↭𝕐\n\nThis is a test video for youtube-dl.\n\nFor more information, contact phihag@phihag.de ."
+ u"description": u"test chars: \"'/\\ä↭𝕐\ntest URL: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1892\n\nThis is a test video for youtube-dl.\n\nFor more information, contact phihag@phihag.de ."
}
},
{
@@ -1366,6 +1366,15 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
# description
video_description = get_element_by_id("eow-description", video_webpage)
if video_description:
+ video_description = re.sub(r'''(?x)
+ <a\s+
+ (?:[a-zA-Z-]+="[^"]+"\s+)*?
+ title="([^"]+)"\s+
+ (?:[a-zA-Z-]+="[^"]+"\s+)*?
+ class="yt-uix-redirect-link"\s*>
+ [^<]+
+ </a>
+ ''', r'\1', video_description)
video_description = clean_html(video_description)
else:
fd_mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="([^"]+)"', video_webpage)