From 700ccbe3f14e9b1f3708a562efc57361c14dee68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 05:13:57 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [extractor] Allow control characters inside json

Closes #3174
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/common.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index f3ae3fd4c5..e1a6610337 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ def _parse_json(self, json_string, video_id, transform_source=None, fatal=True):
         if transform_source:
             json_string = transform_source(json_string)
         try:
-            return json.loads(json_string)
+            return json.loads(json_string, strict=False)
         except ValueError as ve:
             errmsg = '%s: Failed to parse JSON ' % video_id
             if fatal: