Fix MIT extractor for Python 2.6

The HTML for the MIT page does not parse cleanly for Python 2.6 due
to script tags within an actual script element.  The offending piece
is inside a comment block, so removing all such comment blocks
fixes the parsing.

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py
index d09d03e36e8be030b889ba9fd4912f5df128a5c2..52be9232fe12d394ed600c349721339c5891a78a 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/mit.py
@@ -25,23 +25,21 @@ class TechTVMITIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         video_id = mobj.group('id')
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(
+        raw_page = self._download_webpage(
             'http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/%s' % video_id, video_id)
-        embed_page = self._download_webpage(
-            'http://techtv.mit.edu/embeds/%s/' % video_id, video_id,
-            note=u'Downloading embed page')
+        clean_page = re.compile(u'<!--.*?-->', re.S).sub(u'', raw_page)
 
         base_url = self._search_regex(r'ipadUrl: \'(.+?cloudfront.net/)',
-            embed_page, u'base url')
-        formats_json = self._search_regex(r'bitrates: (\[.+?\])', embed_page,
+            raw_page, u'base url')
+        formats_json = self._search_regex(r'bitrates: (\[.+?\])', raw_page,
             u'video formats')
         formats = json.loads(formats_json)
         formats = sorted(formats, key=lambda f: f['bitrate'])
 
-        title = get_element_by_id('edit-title', webpage)
-        description = clean_html(get_element_by_id('edit-description', webpage))
+        title = get_element_by_id('edit-title', clean_page)
+        description = clean_html(get_element_by_id('edit-description', clean_page))
         thumbnail = self._search_regex(r'playlist:.*?url: \'(.+?)\'',
-            embed_page, u'thumbnail', flags=re.DOTALL)
+            raw_page, u'thumbnail', flags=re.DOTALL)
 
         return {'id': video_id,
                 'title': title,