Merge pull request #7045 from remitamine/ign

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / downloader / f4m.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py
index 7f6143954d3d4fdd633eefd3b85a75ea5c07dda8..aaf0c49c8cb474e397a71988502848ed8351336b 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py
@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@ import io
 import itertools
 import os
 import time
-import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
 
 from .fragment import FragmentFD
 from ..compat import (
+    compat_etree_fromstring,
     compat_urlparse,
     compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
 )
 from ..utils import (
     encodeFilename,
+    fix_xml_ampersands,
     sanitize_open,
     struct_pack,
     struct_unpack,
@@ -288,9 +289,12 @@ class F4mFD(FragmentFD):
         self.to_screen('[%s] Downloading f4m manifest' % self.FD_NAME)
         urlh = self.ydl.urlopen(man_url)
         man_url = urlh.geturl()
-        manifest = urlh.read()
+        # Some manifests may be malformed, e.g. prosiebensat1 generated manifests
+        # (see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6215#issuecomment-121704244
+        # and https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7823)
+        manifest = fix_xml_ampersands(urlh.read().decode('utf-8', 'ignore')).strip()
 
-        doc = etree.fromstring(manifest)
+        doc = compat_etree_fromstring(manifest)
         formats = [(int(f.attrib.get('bitrate', -1)), f)
                    for f in self._get_unencrypted_media(doc)]
         if requested_bitrate is None: