From: Nicholas Defranco <redacted>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:21:14 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: [extractor/youtube] Fix parsing `comment_count` (#6523)
X-Git-Tag: 2023.06.21~216
X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/yt-dlp.git/commitdiff_plain/071670cbeaa01ddf2cc20a95ae6da25f8f086431

[extractor/youtube] Fix parsing `comment_count` (#6523)

Closes #5849
Authored by: nick-cd
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diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
index b024d18b7..ca56f112b 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -4268,11 +4268,11 @@ def process_language(container, base_url, lang_code, sub_name, query):
 
         info['comment_count'] = traverse_obj(initial_data, (
             'contents', 'twoColumnWatchNextResults', 'results', 'results', 'contents', ..., 'itemSectionRenderer',
-            'contents', ..., 'commentsEntryPointHeaderRenderer', 'commentCount', 'simpleText'
+            'contents', ..., 'commentsEntryPointHeaderRenderer', 'commentCount'
         ), (
             'engagementPanels', lambda _, v: v['engagementPanelSectionListRenderer']['panelIdentifier'] == 'comment-item-section',
-            'engagementPanelSectionListRenderer', 'header', 'engagementPanelTitleHeaderRenderer', 'contextualInfo', 'runs', ..., 'text'
-        ), expected_type=int_or_none, get_all=False)
+            'engagementPanelSectionListRenderer', 'header', 'engagementPanelTitleHeaderRenderer', 'contextualInfo'
+        ), expected_type=self._get_count, get_all=False)
 
         try:  # This will error if there is no livechat
             initial_data['contents']['twoColumnWatchNextResults']['conversationBar']['liveChatRenderer']['continuations'][0]['reloadContinuationData']['continuation']