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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 8 |
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 |