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request_comments: remove obsolete retrying code

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The issue that code was working around happened with an older
request format (the ajax format) that was removed. The issue
does not happen with the newer polymer format.

Signed-off-by: Jesús <heckyel@hyperbola.info>
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James Taylor
2020-12-21 17:03:41 -08:00
committed by Jesús
parent 35b2b3e973
commit dcfa2700ef
1 changed files with 5 additions and 10 deletions
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youtube/comments.py
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@@ -69,17 +69,12 @@ def request_comments(ctoken, replies=False):
base_url = "https://m.youtube.com/watch_comment?action_get_comments=1&ctoken="
url = base_url + ctoken.replace("=", "%3D") + "&pbj=1"
for i in range(0, 8): # don't retry more than 8 times
content = util.fetch_url(url, headers=mobile_headers, report_text="Retrieved comments", debug_name='request_comments')
if content[0:4] == b")]}'": # random closing characters included at beginning of response for some reason
content = content[4:]
elif content[0:10] == b'\n<!DOCTYPE': # occasionally returns html instead of json for no reason
content = b''
print("got <!DOCTYPE>, retrying")
continue
break
content = util.fetch_url(
url, headers=mobile_headers,
report_text='Retrieved comments', debug_name='request_comments')
content = content.decode('utf-8')
polymer_json = json.loads(util.uppercase_escape(content.decode('utf-8')))
polymer_json = json.loads(content)
return polymer_json