From 7b670a4483d589af822e7fc061d1d3d3aafd36f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:54:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] YouTube: Fall back to <meta> description if video is rated
 (Fixes #800)

---
 youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 208b448875..d5876ad346 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -570,7 +570,11 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         if video_description:
             video_description = clean_html(video_description)
         else:
-            video_description = u''
+            fd_mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="([^"]+)"', video_webpage)
+            if fd_mobj:
+                video_description = unescapeHTML(fd_mobj.group(1))
+            else:
+                video_description = u''
 
         # subtitles
         video_subtitles = None