Fixed issue #1277 KeyError when no description.

Allows a continue with a warning when an extractor cannot retrieve a description.

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index b289bd9e26bbc9993e6f1295a31d20b3275f5f48..afce280407121fdf0e1680ea7c0a7e4ec2b5d0ec 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -492,6 +492,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                 self.report_writedescription(descfn)
                 with io.open(encodeFilename(descfn), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as descfile:
                     descfile.write(info_dict['description'])
+            except (KeyError, TypeError):
+                self.report_warning(u'Cannot extract description.')
             except (OSError, IOError):
                 self.report_error(u'Cannot write description file ' + descfn)
                 return