Invalid \escape on channels with special characters in name

[christianboyle]

Things seem to work as expected in testing on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CodexCommunity/videos

But trying this channel results in an error: https://www.youtube.com/@PerfectGuyLife/videos

json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Invalid \escape: line 1 column 212 (char 211)

My guess is that the 2nd channel uses emoji in some of their titles, like 🔴 Fishtank is LIVE 🐟 50% OFF Weekend

Any thoughts on this?

[NotJoeMartinez]

Problem on is on line 210 in the get_channel_name function.

script = soup.find('script', type='application/ld+json')
data = json.loads(script.string)

for some reason json.loads() is breaking when it tries to read the channel name from the string:

"name": "Sam \x26 Nick\x27s Perfect Clips"

A quick fix would be to remove the escapes but that still leaves the rest of the special character in the channel name
and will probably make it harder to display the real channel name in the future.

script = soup.find('script', type='application/ld+json')
script = script.string.replace('\\', '')
data = json.loads(script)

We can also escape the escapes but I'm not sure how that will effect other things

script = script.string.replace('\\', '\\\\')

[NotJoeMartinez]

Fixed with 29e0f11

[christianboyle]

@NotJoeMartinez Nice, thanks for the quick fix!

Things are working now. The only thing I noticed (which you alluded to) is that list doesn't show the special characters, but curiously search does show them.