Merge pull request #7296 from jaimeMF/xml_attrib_unicode

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / extractor / generic.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index ca5fbafb2606ff096025d8f6a86bff598410d4d0..ee5419f51017a5f3a5ce01018eaaa65f4ab979ab 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import sys
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from .youtube import YoutubeIE
 from ..compat import (
+    compat_etree_fromstring,
     compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
     compat_urllib_request,
     compat_urlparse,
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@ from ..utils import (
     HEADRequest,
     is_html,
     orderedSet,
-    parse_xml,
     smuggle_url,
     unescapeHTML,
     unified_strdate,
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                 'ext': 'mp4',
                 'title': 'Automatics, robotics and biocybernetics',
                 'description': 'md5:815fc1deb6b3a2bff99de2d5325be482',
+                'upload_date': '20130627',
                 'formats': 'mincount:16',
                 'subtitles': 'mincount:1',
             },
@@ -1237,7 +1238,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         # Is it an RSS feed, a SMIL file or a XSPF playlist?
         try:
-            doc = parse_xml(webpage)
+            doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
             if doc.tag == 'rss':
                 return self._extract_rss(url, video_id, doc)
             elif re.match(r'^(?:{[^}]+})?smil$', doc.tag):