[dailymotion] Improve description extraction (closes #16984)

6 years ago · 8da17f9680
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ class DailymotionIE(DailymotionBaseInfoExtractor):

        age_limit = self._rta_search(webpage)

-        description = self._og_search_description(webpage) or self._html_search_meta(
+        description = self._og_search_description(
+            webpage, default=None) or self._html_search_meta(
            'description', webpage, 'description')

        view_count_str = self._search_regex(