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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 1f29e8a4e..897398d20 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1697,9 +1697,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
self.report_information_extraction(video_id)
# uploader
- if 'author' not in video_info:
- raise ExtractorError('Unable to extract uploader name')
- video_uploader = compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus(video_info['author'][0])
+ video_uploader = try_get(video_info, lambda x: x['author'][0], compat_str)
+ if video_uploader:
+ video_uploader = compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus(video_uploader)
+ else:
+ self._downloader.report_warning('unable to extract uploader name')
# uploader_id
video_uploader_id = None