YouTube: Fall back to <meta> description if video is rated (Fixes #800)

11 years ago · 7b670a4483
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@ -570,7 +570,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
        if video_description:
            video_description = clean_html(video_description)
        else:
-            video_description = u''
+            fd_mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="([^"]+)"', video_webpage)
+            if fd_mobj:
+                video_description = unescapeHTML(fd_mobj.group(1))
+            else:
+                video_description = u''

        # subtitles
        video_subtitles = None