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-rwxr-xr-xyoutube_dl/__init__.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 78fb07ea1..dc7ec136f 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -252,7 +252,10 @@ class IDParser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
def get_element_by_id(id, html):
"""Return the content of the tag with the specified id in the passed HTML document"""
parser = IDParser(id)
- parser.loads(html)
+ try:
+ parser.loads(html)
+ except HTMLParser.HTMLParseError:
+ pass
return parser.get_result()