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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube/comments.py | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/youtube/comments.py b/youtube/comments.py index c19a70a..fff7cb5 100644 --- a/youtube/comments.py +++ b/youtube/comments.py @@ -69,17 +69,12 @@ def request_comments(ctoken, replies=False): base_url = "https://m.youtube.com/watch_comment?action_get_comments=1&ctoken=" url = base_url + ctoken.replace("=", "%3D") + "&pbj=1" - for i in range(0, 8): # don't retry more than 8 times - content = util.fetch_url(url, headers=mobile_headers, report_text="Retrieved comments", debug_name='request_comments') - if content[0:4] == b")]}'": # random closing characters included at beginning of response for some reason - content = content[4:] - elif content[0:10] == b'\n<!DOCTYPE': # occasionally returns html instead of json for no reason - content = b'' - print("got <!DOCTYPE>, retrying") - continue - break - - polymer_json = json.loads(util.uppercase_escape(content.decode('utf-8'))) + content = util.fetch_url( + url, headers=mobile_headers, + report_text='Retrieved comments', debug_name='request_comments') + content = content.decode('utf-8') + + polymer_json = json.loads(content) return polymer_json |