[utils] Skip invalid/non HTML entities (Closes #7518)

2025-07-03 20:42:49 -05:00 · 2015-11-16 20:20:16 +06:00
parent bd1512d196
commit 7aefc49c40
2 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@ -396,7 +396,11 @@ def _htmlentity_transform(entity):
            numstr = '0%s' % numstr
        else:
            base = 10
-        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+        # See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7518
+        try:
+            return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+        except ValueError:
+            pass

    # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
    return ('&%s;' % entity)