From 15f22b4880b6b3f71f350c64d70976ae65b9f1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TSRBerry <20988865+TSRBerry@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:20:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [webvtt] Allow spaces before newlines for CueBlock (#7681)

Closes #7453

Ref: https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#webvtt-cue-block
---
 yt_dlp/webvtt.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/webvtt.py b/yt_dlp/webvtt.py
index dd72982778..596e9bf738 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/webvtt.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/webvtt.py
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ def __init__(self, parser):
 _REGEX_EOF = re.compile(r'\Z')
 _REGEX_NL = re.compile(r'(?:\r\n|[\r\n]|$)')
 _REGEX_BLANK = re.compile(r'(?:\r\n|[\r\n])+')
+_REGEX_OPTIONAL_WHITESPACE = re.compile(r'[ \t]*')
 
 
 def _parse_ts(ts):
@@ -285,6 +286,7 @@ def parse(cls, parser):
         m1 = parser.consume(_REGEX_TS)
         if not m1:
             return None
+        parser.consume(_REGEX_OPTIONAL_WHITESPACE)
         m2 = parser.consume(cls._REGEX_SETTINGS)
         if not parser.consume(_REGEX_NL):
             return None