[youtube] Clarify ytplayer.config extraction rationale

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Sergey M․ 2015-11-23 21:14:03 +06:00
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@ -898,6 +898,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
def _get_ytplayer_config(self, video_id, webpage):
patterns = (
# User data may contain arbitrary character sequences that may affect
# JSON extraction with regex, e.g. when '};' is contained the second
# regex won't capture the whole JSON. Yet working around by trying more
# concrete regex first keeping in mind proper quoted string handling
# to be implemented in future that will replace this workaround (see
# https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7468,
# https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/7599)
r';ytplayer\.config\s*=\s*({.+?});ytplayer',
r';ytplayer\.config\s*=\s*({.+?});',
)