From 042931a50733d621c02d3e7127195bef574df213 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:15:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Allow escaped `,` in `--extractor-args`

Closes #2152
---
 yt_dlp/options.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py
index 4f51c37c0..83531497c 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/options.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/options.py
@@ -1572,7 +1572,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--no-hls-split-discontinuity',
         dest='hls_split_discontinuity', action='store_false',
         help='Do not split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks (default)')
-    _extractor_arg_parser = lambda key, vals='': (key.strip().lower().replace('-', '_'), [val.strip() for val in vals.split(',')])
+    _extractor_arg_parser = lambda key, vals='': (key.strip().lower().replace('-', '_'), [
+        val.replace(r'\,', ',').strip() for val in re.split(r'(?<!\\),', vals)])
     extractor.add_option(
         '--extractor-args',
         metavar='KEY:ARGS', dest='extractor_args', default={}, type='str',