* fallback player url extraction when it fails to be extracted from the webpage
* don't download js player unnecessarily for clients that don't require it
* try to extract js player url from any additional client configs
* ability to skip the js player usage/download using `player_skip=js`
* ability to skip the initial webpage download using `player_skip=webpage`
known issue:
* authentication for multi-channel accounts and multi-account cookies may not work correctly if the webpage or client configs are skipped
* formats from the web client requiring signature decryption will be skipped if player js extraction is skipped
Authored by: coletdjnz
SponsorBlock options:
* The fetched sponsor sections are written to infojson
* `--sponsorblock-remove` removes specified chapters from file
* `--sponsorblock-mark` marks the specified sponsor sections as chapters
* `--sponsorblock-chapter-title` to specify sponsor chapter template
* `--sponsorblock-api` to use a different API
Related improvements:
* Split `--embed-chapters` from `--embed-metadata`
* Add `--remove-chapters` to remove arbitrary chapters
* Add `--force-keyframes-at-cuts` for more accurate cuts when removing and splitting chapters
Deprecates all `--sponskrub` options
Authored by: nihil-admirari, pukkandan
* Calling the API with `clientScreen=EMBED` allows access to most age-gated videos - discovered by @ccdffddfddfdsfedeee (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/574#issuecomment-887171136)
* Adds clients: (web/android/ios)_(embedded/agegate), mweb_embedded
* Renamed mobile_web to mweb
Closes#574
Authored by pukkandan, MinePlayersPE
* `player_client` accepts multiple clients
* default `player_client` = `android,web`
* music clients can be specifically requested
* Add IOS `player_client`
* Hide live dash since they can't be downloaded
Closes#501
Authored-by: pukkandan, colethedj
* Support direct `/player/` URL
* Treat the different versions of an episode as different formats of a single video. So `experience_id` can no longer be used as the video `id` and the `episode_id` is used instead. This means that all existing archives will break
* Extractor options `language` and `version` to pre-select them
* Compat option `seperate-video-versions` to fall back to old behavior (including using the old video IDs)
Closes#428
pukkandan