[utils] Handle HTMLParseError in extract_attributes (closes #13349)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index d79410e58a2ae0965faa291f67b9a6645956c5f0..1973bd4836a407d3e66fcc4c3a54d052e958ae19 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree
 import zlib
 
 from .compat import (
+    compat_HTMLParseError,
     compat_HTMLParser,
     compat_basestring,
     compat_chr,
@@ -409,8 +410,12 @@ def extract_attributes(html_element):
     but the cases in the unit test will work for all of 2.6, 2.7, 3.2-3.5.
     """
     parser = HTMLAttributeParser()
-    parser.feed(html_element)
-    parser.close()
+    try:
+        parser.feed(html_element)
+        parser.close()
+    # Older Python may throw HTMLParseError in case of malformed HTML
+    except compat_HTMLParseError:
+        pass
     return parser.attrs
 
 
@@ -1179,7 +1184,7 @@ def unified_timestamp(date_str, day_first=True):
     if date_str is None:
         return None
 
-    date_str = date_str.replace(',', ' ')
+    date_str = re.sub(r'[,|]', '', date_str)
 
     pm_delta = 12 if re.search(r'(?i)PM', date_str) else 0
     timezone, date_str = extract_timezone(date_str)