[utils] Add `get_first`

yt_dlp/extractor/facebook.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     float_or_none,
     get_element_by_id,
+    get_first,
     int_or_none,
     js_to_json,
     merge_dicts,
@@ -405,11 +406,9 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
                 ..., 'require', ..., ..., ..., '__bbox', 'result', 'data'), expected_type=dict) or []
             media = [m for m in traverse_obj(post, (..., 'attachments', ..., 'media'), expected_type=dict) or []
                      if str(m.get('id')) == video_id and m.get('__typename') == 'Video']
-            title = traverse_obj(media, (..., 'title', 'text'), get_all=False)
+            title = get_first(media, ('title', 'text'))
-            description = traverse_obj(media, (
+            description = get_first(media, ('creation_story', 'comet_sections', 'message', 'story', 'message', 'text'))
-                ..., 'creation_story', 'comet_sections', 'message', 'story', 'message', 'text'), get_all=False)
+            uploader_data = get_first(media, 'owner') or get_first(post, ('node', 'actors', ...)) or {}
-            uploader_data = (traverse_obj(media, (..., 'owner'), get_all=False)
-                             or traverse_obj(post, (..., 'node', 'actors', ...), get_all=False) or {})
 
             page_title = title or self._html_search_regex((
                 r'<h2\s+[^>]*class="uiHeaderTitle"[^>]*>(?P<content>[^<]*)</h2>',

yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from ..compat import (
 from ..utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     HEADRequest,
+    get_first,
     int_or_none,
     join_nonempty,
     LazyList,
@@ -816,8 +817,7 @@ class DouyinIE(TikTokIE):
 
         render_data = self._parse_json(
             render_data_json, video_id, transform_source=compat_urllib_parse_unquote)
-        return self._parse_aweme_video_web(
+        return self._parse_aweme_video_web(get_first(render_data, ('aweme', 'detail')), url)
-            traverse_obj(render_data, (..., 'aweme', 'detail'), get_all=False), url)
 
 
 class TikTokVMIE(InfoExtractor):

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     float_or_none,
     format_field,
+    get_first,
     int_or_none,
     is_html,
     join_nonempty,
@@ -72,10 +73,6 @@ from ..utils import (
 )
 
 
-def get_first(obj, keys, **kwargs):
-    return traverse_obj(obj, (..., *variadic(keys)), **kwargs, get_all=False)
-
-
 # any clients starting with _ cannot be explicity requested by the user
 INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
     'web': {

yt_dlp/utils.py

@@ -5218,6 +5218,10 @@ def traverse_dict(dictn, keys, casesense=True):
     return traverse_obj(dictn, keys, casesense=casesense, is_user_input=True, traverse_string=True)
 
 
+def get_first(obj, keys, **kwargs):
+    return traverse_obj(obj, (..., *variadic(keys)), **kwargs, get_all=False)
+
+
 def variadic(x, allowed_types=(str, bytes, dict)):
     return x if isinstance(x, collections.abc.Iterable) and not isinstance(x, allowed_types) else (x,)