Unless mentioned otherwise, the fields should be Unicode strings.
+ Unless mentioned otherwise, None is equivalent to absence of information.
+
Subclasses of this one should re-define the _real_initialize() and
_real_extract() methods and define a _VALID_URL regexp.
Probably, they should also be added to the list of extractors.
try:
return json.loads(json_string)
except ValueError as ve:
- raise ExtractorError('Failed to download JSON', cause=ve)
+ errmsg = '%s: Failed to parse JSON ' % video_id
+ if fatal:
+ raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
+ else:
+ self.report_warning(errmsg + str(ve))
def report_warning(self, msg, video_id=None):
idstr = '' if video_id is None else '%s: ' % video_id