Before applying this patch, when downloading resources from xiami.com, it crashes with these:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/phi/.local/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 433, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 423, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1786, in download
url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/xiami.py", line 116, in _real_extract
return self._extract_tracks(self._match_id(url))[0]
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/xiami.py", line 43, in _extract_tracks
'%s/%s%s' % (self._API_BASE_URL, item_id, '/type/%s' % typ if typ else ''), item_id)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 562, in _download_json
json_string, video_id, transform_source=transform_source, fatal=fatal)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 568, in _parse_json
return json.loads(json_string)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'NoneType'
This patch solves exactly this problem.
Sergey M․