[youtube] Fix upload date extraction (closes #14065)

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

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 3d0f5a5c90f3dedea235e570320abc916eaf70cc..563cf62748ec90d771152241583ade6cd6531246 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1621,7 +1621,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
             self.to_screen('Downloading just video %s because of --no-playlist' % video_id)
 
         if view_count is None:
-            view_count = extract_view_count(get_video_info)
+            view_count = extract_view_count(video_info)
 
         # Check for "rental" videos
         if 'ypc_video_rental_bar_text' in video_info and 'author' not in video_info:
@@ -1665,10 +1665,8 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         if not upload_date:
             upload_date = self._search_regex(
                 [r'(?s)id="eow-date.*?>(.*?)</span>',
-                 r'id="watch-uploader-info".*?>.*?(?:Published|Uploaded|Streamed live|Started) on (.+?)</strong>'],
+                 r'(?:id="watch-uploader-info".*?>.*?|["\']simpleText["\']\s*:\s*["\'])(?:Published|Uploaded|Streamed live|Started) on (.+?)[<"\']'],
                 video_webpage, 'upload date', default=None)
-            if upload_date:
-                upload_date = ' '.join(re.sub(r'[/,-]', r' ', mobj.group(1)).split())
         upload_date = unified_strdate(upload_date)
 
         video_license = self._html_search_regex(