From d98f81b296bce9532d080571aca07e5f33ea2c56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TobiGr <tobigr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:58:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix detection of invalid textObject in getTextFromObject()

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 .../services/youtube/linkHandler/YoutubeParsingHelper.java    | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/linkHandler/YoutubeParsingHelper.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/linkHandler/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
index 6ebb2497fd..1615ee0ecd 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/linkHandler/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/linkHandler/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@ public static String getUrlFromNavigationEndpoint(JsonObject navigationEndpoint)
      * @return text in the JSON object or an empty string
      */
     public static String getTextFromObject(JsonObject textObject, boolean html) throws ParsingException {
+        if (textObject == null || textObject.isEmpty()) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
         if (textObject.has("simpleText")) return textObject.getString("simpleText");
 
         StringBuilder textBuilder = new StringBuilder();