Fix MIT extractor for Python 2.6

The HTML for the MIT page does not parse cleanly for Python 2.6 due
to script tags within an actual script element.  The offending piece
is inside a comment block, so removing all such comment blocks
fixes the parsing.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py
index d09d03e36..52be9232f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py
@@ -25,23 +25,21 @@ class TechTVMITIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         video_id = mobj.group('id')
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(
+        raw_page = self._download_webpage(
             'http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/%s' % video_id, video_id)
-        embed_page = self._download_webpage(
-            'http://techtv.mit.edu/embeds/%s/' % video_id, video_id,
-            note=u'Downloading embed page')
+        clean_page = re.compile(u'<!--.*?-->', re.S).sub(u'', raw_page)
 
         base_url = self._search_regex(r'ipadUrl: \'(.+?cloudfront.net/)',
-            embed_page, u'base url')
-        formats_json = self._search_regex(r'bitrates: (\[.+?\])', embed_page,
+            raw_page, u'base url')
+        formats_json = self._search_regex(r'bitrates: (\[.+?\])', raw_page,
             u'video formats')
         formats = json.loads(formats_json)
         formats = sorted(formats, key=lambda f: f['bitrate'])
 
-        title = get_element_by_id('edit-title', webpage)
-        description = clean_html(get_element_by_id('edit-description', webpage))
+        title = get_element_by_id('edit-title', clean_page)
+        description = clean_html(get_element_by_id('edit-description', clean_page))
         thumbnail = self._search_regex(r'playlist:.*?url: \'(.+?)\'',
-            embed_page, u'thumbnail', flags=re.DOTALL)
+            raw_page, u'thumbnail', flags=re.DOTALL)
 
         return {'id': video_id,
                 'title': title,