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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2013-10-04 11:53:49 +0200
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2013-10-04 11:53:49 +0200
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[brightcove] Fix up some broken HTML (#1553)
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py5
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
index 558b3d009..745212f2f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
         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)
+
         object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str)
         assert u'BrightcoveExperience' in object_doc.attrib['class']
         params = {'flashID': object_doc.attrib['id'],