use demjson.decode to parse data-ft

Fixes JSONDecodeError('Invalid \escape: line 1 column 306 (char 305)')
kevinzg · Jul 26, 2021 · b565da2 · b565da2
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diff --git a/facebook_scraper/extractors.py b/facebook_scraper/extractors.py
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ def data_ft(self) -> dict:
         self._data_ft = {}
         try:
             data_ft_json = self.element.attrs['data-ft']
-            self._data_ft = json.loads(data_ft_json)
+            self._data_ft = demjson.decode(data_ft_json)
         except JSONDecodeError as ex:
             logger.error("Error parsing data-ft JSON: %r", ex)
         except KeyError: