+ def _get_ytplayer_config(self, video_id, webpage):
+ patterns = (
+ # User data may contain arbitrary character sequences that may affect
+ # JSON extraction with regex, e.g. when '};' is contained the second
+ # regex won't capture the whole JSON. Yet working around by trying more
+ # concrete regex first keeping in mind proper quoted string handling
+ # to be implemented in future that will replace this workaround (see
+ # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7468,
+ # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/7599)
+ r';ytplayer\.config\s*=\s*({.+?});ytplayer',
+ r';ytplayer\.config\s*=\s*({.+?});',
+ )
+ config = self._search_regex(
+ patterns, webpage, 'ytplayer.config', default=None)
+ if config:
+ return self._parse_json(
+ uppercase_escape(config), video_id, fatal=False)
+