From ec00e1d8a01dafe8efafe554668c930bf4683f82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:35:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [metacafe] Use modern helper methods

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/metacafe.py | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/metacafe.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/metacafe.py
index 844a24efb5..94d9ef62f4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/metacafe.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/metacafe.py
@@ -118,11 +118,7 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
                 video_url = '%s?__gda__=%s' % (mediaURL, mobj.group('key'))
                 video_ext = determine_ext(video_url)
 
-        mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>(.*) - Video</title>', webpage)
-        if mobj is None:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
-        video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
-
+        video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'(?im)<title>(.*) - Video</title>', webpage, u'title')
         video_uploader = self._html_search_regex(r'submitter=(.*?);|<p class="By">\s*By\s*<a[^>]*>(.*?)</a>', webpage, u'uploader nickname', fatal=False)
 
         return [{