[mixcloud] improved extraction of user description

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

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py
index dcc4ddf25f82628d4dbd3cd129159e7d21b24c96..30b33e7e98581fb0142d30837276dc476f6acd49 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ class MixcloudUserIE(InfoExtractor):
         while True:
             # fake a AJAX request to retrieve a list fragment
             page_url = base_url + "?page=%d&list=main&_ajax=1" % current_page
-            req = compat_urllib_request.Request(page_url, headers={"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"}, method="GET")
+            req = compat_urllib_request.Request(page_url, headers={"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"})
             resp = self._download_webpage(req, video_id, note=dl_note + " (page %d)" % current_page, errnote=dl_errnote)
 
             # extract all track URLs from fragment
@@ -195,12 +195,10 @@ class MixcloudUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _get_user_description(self, page_content):
         return self._html_search_regex(
-            r'<div class="description-text">.*?<p>(?P<description>.*?)</p></div></div></div>',
+            r'<div class="description-text">.*?<p>(.*?)</p></div></div></div>',
             page_content,
             "user description",
-            group="description",
-            fatal=False,
-            default="")
+            fatal=False)
 
     def _get_username(self, page_content):
         return self._og_search_title(page_content)