From c9a53fa2b2e9445c40236632ae382bfc005d364a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kaso17 <kaso17@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 15:25:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] YTS: handle error messages

---
 src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/yts.cs | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/yts.cs b/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/yts.cs
index 5ac1e0efa..f75a5e45c 100644
--- a/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/yts.cs
+++ b/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/yts.cs
@@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ namespace Jackett.Common.Indexers
 
             try
             {
-                var jsonContent = JObject.Parse(response.Content);
+                // returned content might start with an html error message, remove it first
+                var jsonStart = response.Content.IndexOf('{');
+                var jsonContentStr = response.Content.Remove(0, jsonStart);
+
+                var jsonContent = JObject.Parse(jsonContentStr);
 
                 string result = jsonContent.Value<string>("status");
                 if (result != "ok") // query was not successful