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Diffstat (limited to 'yt_dlp')
| -rw-r--r-- | yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py index 32815476f..2153fe6b3 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py +++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py @@ -2508,7 +2508,10 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): # Is it an RSS feed, a SMIL file, an XSPF playlist or a MPD manifest? try: - doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8')) + try: + doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage) + except compat_xml_parse_error: + doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8')) if doc.tag == 'rss': return self._extract_rss(url, video_id, doc) elif doc.tag == 'SmoothStreamingMedia': |