From 3d8e9573a470594df6fa471dc33c4c4b938b668a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 06:25:37 +0600 Subject: [PATCH] [youtube:channel] Improve channel id extraction (#5904) --- youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index aacb999ce..419f7b019 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -1406,10 +1406,12 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor): channel_page = self._download_webpage( url + '?view=57', channel_id, 'Downloading channel page', fatal=False) - channel_playlist_id = self._search_regex( - [r'', - r'data-channel-external-id="([^"]+)"'], - channel_page, 'channel id', default=None) + channel_playlist_id = self._html_search_meta( + 'channelId', channel_page, 'channel id', default=None) + if not channel_playlist_id: + channel_playlist_id = self._search_regex( + r'data-channel-external-id="([^"]+)"', + channel_page, 'channel id', default=None) if channel_playlist_id and channel_playlist_id.startswith('UC'): playlist_id = 'UU' + channel_playlist_id[2:] return self.url_result( -- 2.39.5