From 9c2ade40de53bae865c5267642651c81d16e48a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
<jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:11:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [vimeo] Handle Assertions Error when trying to get the
description
In some pages the html tags are not closed, python 2.6 cannot handle it.
---
youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
index dee4175ef..4a7d82b7a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
@@ -148,9 +148,17 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
_, video_thumbnail = sorted((int(width), t_url) for (width, t_url) in config["video"]["thumbs"].items())[-1]
# Extract video description
- video_description = get_element_by_attribute("itemprop", "description", webpage)
- if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description)
- else: video_description = u''
+ video_description = None
+ try:
+ video_description = get_element_by_attribute("itemprop", "description", webpage)
+ if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description)
+ except AssertionError as err:
+ # On some pages like (http://player.vimeo.com/video/54469442) the
+ # html tags are not closed, python 2.6 cannot handle it
+ if err.args[0] == 'we should not get here!':
+ pass
+ else:
+ raise
# Extract upload date
video_upload_date = None