Build a Brightcove url from a xml string containing
<object class="BrightcoveExperience">{params}</object>
"""
+
+ # Fix up some stupid HTML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1553
+ object_str = re.sub(r'(<param name="[^"]+" value="[^"]+")>',
+ lambda m: m.group(1) + '/>', object_str)
+ # Fix up some stupid XML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1608
+ object_str = object_str.replace(u'<--', u'<!--')
+
object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str)
assert u'BrightcoveExperience' in object_doc.attrib['class']
params = {'flashID': object_doc.attrib['id'],
playlist_info = self._download_webpage(self._PLAYLIST_URL_TEMPLATE % player_key,
player_key, u'Downloading playlist information')
- playlist_info = json.loads(playlist_info)['videoList']
+ json_data = json.loads(playlist_info)
+ if 'videoList' not in json_data:
+ raise ExtractorError(u'Empty playlist')
+ playlist_info = json_data['videoList']
videos = [self._extract_video_info(video_info) for video_info in playlist_info['mediaCollectionDTO']['videoDTOs']]
return self.playlist_result(videos, playlist_id=playlist_info['id'],