From 9305a0dc60ea8c3b72e42e183ac09009806a0ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:05:29 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] [vk] Fix extraction (closes #11022) --- youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py index df43ba867..1990e7093 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import collections import re -import json import sys from .common import InfoExtractor @@ -369,8 +368,18 @@ def _real_extract(self, url): opts_url = 'http:' + opts_url return self.url_result(opts_url) - data_json = self._search_regex(r'var\s+vars\s*=\s*({.+?});', info_page, 'vars') - data = json.loads(data_json) + # vars does not look to be served anymore since 24.10.2016 + data = self._parse_json( + self._search_regex( + r'var\s+vars\s*=\s*({.+?});', info_page, 'vars', default='{}'), + video_id, fatal=False) + + # is served instead + if not data: + data = self._parse_json( + self._search_regex( + r'\s*({.+?})\s*', info_page, 'json'), + video_id)['player']['params'][0] title = unescapeHTML(data['md_title'])