From 99d03e25442b7fd6965c9fef3f112120292d61d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barbara Miller <galgeek@me.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:13:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] try / except

---
 brozzler/ydl.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/brozzler/ydl.py b/brozzler/ydl.py
index f6f2ee6..caa6f8f 100644
--- a/brozzler/ydl.py
+++ b/brozzler/ydl.py
@@ -160,7 +160,13 @@ def _build_youtube_dl(worker, destdir, site):
                     # videos. We unroll that iterator here partly because
                     # otherwise `process_ie_result()` will clobber it, and we
                     # use it later to extract the watch pages as outlinks.
-                    ie_result['entries_no_dl'] = list(ie_result['entries'])
+                    try:
+                        ie_result['entries_no_dl'] = list(ie_result['entries'])
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        self.logger.warning(
+                                "failed to unroll ie_result['entries']? for %s, %s; exception {}",
+                                ie.IE_NAME, url, e)
+                        ie_result['entries_no_dl'] =[]
                     ie_result['entries'] = []
                     self.logger.info(
                             'not downloading %s media files from this '