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-rwxr-xr-xyoutube_dl/InfoExtractors.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 378f8a634..3b1e14ba9 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
result_url = self._API_URL % (compat_urllib_parse.quote_plus(query), (50*pagenum)+1)
request = compat_urllib_request.Request(result_url)
try:
- data = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
+ data = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download API page: %s' % compat_str(err))
return