From 586f1cc532d167c28e733779cbf132b94d8f76e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:07:32 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [extractor/common] Skip html comment tags (Closes #6822)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 835f6f368c..d694e818e9 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -731,6 +731,7 @@ def _twitter_search_player(self, html):
 
     @staticmethod
     def _hidden_inputs(html):
+        html = re.sub(r'<!--(?:(?!<!--).)*-->', '', html)
         hidden_inputs = {}
         for input in re.findall(r'(?i)<input([^>]+)>', html):
             if not re.search(r'type=(["\'])(?:hidden|submit)\1', input):