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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py
index adaec3375..ba05ada39 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import re
-import json
import time
import hmac
import binascii
@@ -59,8 +58,7 @@ class ThePlatformBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
def get_metadata(self, path, video_id):
info_url = 'http://link.theplatform.com/s/%s?format=preview' % path
- info_json = self._download_webpage(info_url, video_id)
- info = json.loads(info_json)
+ info = self._download_json(info_url, video_id)
subtitles = {}
captions = info.get('captions')