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| -rw-r--r-- | yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py index 44e932293..b02e0153a 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py @@ -3341,6 +3341,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): comment = self._extract_comment(comment_renderer, parent) if not comment: continue + # Sometimes YouTube may break and give us infinite looping comments. + # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/6290 + if comment['id'] in tracker['seen_comment_ids']: + self.report_warning('Detected YouTube comments looping. Stopping comment extraction as we probably cannot get any more.') + yield + else: + tracker['seen_comment_ids'].add(comment['id']) tracker['running_total'] += 1 tracker['total_reply_comments' if parent else 'total_parent_comments'] += 1 @@ -3365,7 +3372,8 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): est_total=0, current_page_thread=0, total_parent_comments=0, - total_reply_comments=0) + total_reply_comments=0, + seen_comment_ids=set()) # TODO: Deprecated # YouTube comments have a max depth of 2 |