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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 9b36e0789..88f12797c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -301,8 +301,12 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
def _download_json(self, url_or_request, video_id,
note=u'Downloading JSON metadata',
errnote=u'Unable to download JSON metadata',
- transform_source=None):
- json_string = self._download_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote)
+ transform_source=None,
+ fatal=True):
+ json_string = self._download_webpage(
+ url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal=fatal)
+ if (not fatal) and json_string is False:
+ return None
if transform_source:
json_string = transform_source(json_string)
try: