From 7998520933db70625ff3859c464fa4bbf2ff7fac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:47:58 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] [youtube] Fix upload date extraction (closes #14065)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 5a6b735a0..563cf6274 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1665,10 +1665,8 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         if not upload_date:
             upload_date = self._search_regex(
                 [r'(?s)id="eow-date.*?>(.*?)</span>',
-                 r'id="watch-uploader-info".*?>.*?(?:Published|Uploaded|Streamed live|Started) on (.+?)</strong>'],
+                 r'(?:id="watch-uploader-info".*?>.*?|["\']simpleText["\']\s*:\s*["\'])(?:Published|Uploaded|Streamed live|Started) on (.+?)[<"\']'],
                 video_webpage, 'upload date', default=None)
-            if upload_date:
-                upload_date = ' '.join(re.sub(r'[/,-]', r' ', mobj.group(1)).split())
         upload_date = unified_strdate(upload_date)
 
         video_license = self._html_search_regex(