youtube-dl

commit: beee53de06eca52d0ae042ce6fcabf319180ec14
parent 8712f2bea7b70307f7858d50f317534494067757
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Fri, 16 May 2014 13:21:24 +0200

[youtube] Look for published-on date if uploaded-on is not found

Fixes #2911

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youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
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1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1138,6 +1138,10 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
         # upload date
         upload_date = None
         mobj = re.search(r'(?s)id="eow-date.*?>(.*?)</span>', video_webpage)
+        if mobj is None:
+            mobj = re.search(
+                r'(?s)id="watch-uploader-info".*?>.*?Published on (.*?)</strong>',
+                video_webpage)
         if mobj is not None:
             upload_date = ' '.join(re.sub(r'[/,-]', r' ', mobj.group(1)).split())
             upload_date = unified_strdate(upload_date)