ITV: metadata now (may) contain HTML tags

[Vangelis66]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.12.12
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

(Using SSH Tunnel to the UK... 😜 )
youtube-dl --proxy="https://localhost:1080" --console-title "https://www.itv.com/hub/family-guy/2a4259a0327" --get-description --skip-download -v =>

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--proxy=https://localhost:1080', '--console-title', 'https://www.itv.com/hub/family-guy/2a4259a0327', '--get-description', '--skip-download', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs mbcs, out cp737, pref cp1253
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.12.12
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': 'https://localhost:1080', 'https': 'https://localhost:1080'}
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best

<strong class="episode-info__series">Series 17 - Episode 15</strong> - The guys volunteer to chaperone the high school prom, where Quagmire hits it off with Courtney, only to discover she is in fact his daughter.

Description

In latest version 2020.12.12, commit 225646c restored metadata (aka description) support for ITV Hub episodes; many thanks to the devs! 🥇
The code line responsible is

youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/itv.py

Line 149 in 225646c

'description': strip_or_none(get_element_by_class('episode-info__synopsis', webpage)),

Sadly, this solution now ends up with the description containing HTML tags, as posted in the log:

<strong class="episode-info__series">Series 17 - Episode 15</strong> - The guys volunteer to chaperone the high school prom, where Quagmire hits it off with Courtney, only to discover she is in fact his daughter.

Now, I understand those tags are there in page source,

but when actually downloading an episode with the flags --write-description --add-metadata, the description gets added into the MP4 file's tag (as expected), but my player of choice (MPC-BE) can't handle the tags:

Thus, I'm humbly requesting that the metadata extraction code be slightly amended to remove those HTML tags; many thanks for your highly-praiseworthy efforts, take care, best festive wishes! 🤶 😄

[Vangelis66]

Many thanks indeed for the swift fix! 👍