From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:54:17 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: YouTube: Fall back to <meta> description if video is rated (Fixes #800)
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YouTube: Fall back to <meta> description if video is rated (Fixes #800)
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 208b44887..d5876ad34 100755
--- 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