ignore parsing errors in get_element_by_id()

13 years ago · 7a8501e307
parent 781cc523af
commit 7a8501e307
2 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/3
+++ b/3
@ -252,7 +252,10 @@ class IDParser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
 def get_element_by_id(id, html):
 	"""Return the content of the tag with the specified id in the passed HTML document"""
 	parser = IDParser(id)
+	try:
 		parser.loads(html)
+	except HTMLParser.HTMLParseError:
+		pass
 	return parser.get_result()


--- a/youtube_dl/init.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/init.py
@ -252,7 +252,10 @@ class IDParser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
 def get_element_by_id(id, html):
 	"""Return the content of the tag with the specified id in the passed HTML document"""
 	parser = IDParser(id)
+	try:
 		parser.loads(html)
+	except HTMLParser.HTMLParseError:
+		pass
 	return parser.get_result()