[YouTube] Avoid crash in author extraction

11 months ago · fa7f0effbe
parent ebdc82c586
commit fa7f0effbe
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
            extract_attributes(self._search_regex(
                r'''(?s)(<link\b[^>]+\bitemprop\s*=\s*("|')%s\2[^>]*>)'''
                % re.escape(var_name),
-                get_element_by_attribute('itemprop', 'author', webpage) or '',
+                get_element_by_attribute('itemprop', 'author', webpage or '') or '',
                'author link', default='')),
            paths[var_name][0])