Merge 2c7638739f8e1ca6032f7e5e506466a8d233543a into da7223d4aa42ff9fc680b0951d043dd03cec2d30

* improve extraction of global "useful data" Array from player JS
* also handle tv-player and add tests: thx seproDev (yt-dlp/yt-dlp#12684)

Co-Authored-By: sepro <sepro@sepr0.com>

README.md

@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ If you have used pip, a simple `sudo pip install -U youtube-dl` is sufficient to
 
 If you have installed youtube-dl using a package manager like *apt-get* or *yum*, use the standard system update mechanism to update. Note that distribution packages are often outdated. As a rule of thumb, youtube-dl releases at least once a month, and often weekly or even daily. Simply go to https://yt-dl.org to find out the current version. Unfortunately, there is nothing we youtube-dl developers can do if your distribution serves a really outdated version. You can (and should) complain to your distribution in their bugtracker or support forum.
 
-As a last resort, you can also uninstall the version installed by your package manager and follow our manual installation instructions. For that, remove the distribution's package, with a line like
+As a last resort, you can also uninstall the version installed by your package manager and follow our manual installation instructions. For that, remove the distribution's package, with a line like:
 
     sudo apt-get remove -y youtube-dl
 
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ If this is not the case (no CAPTCHA suggested to solve by the service) then you
 
 ### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character
 
-The error
+The error:
 
     File "youtube-dl", line 2
     SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ youtube-dl is an open-source project manned by too few volunteers, so we'd rathe
 
 Most users do not need to build youtube-dl and can [download the builds](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html) or get them from their distribution.
 
-To run youtube-dl as a developer, you don't need to build anything either. Simply execute
+To run youtube-dl as a developer, you don't need to build anything either. Simply execute:
 
     python -m youtube_dl
 
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ After you have ensured this site is distributing its content legally, you can fo
 
         git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git
 
-3. Start a new git branch with
+3. Start a new git branch with:
 
         cd youtube-dl
         git checkout -b yourextractor

test/test_youtube_signature.py

@@ -232,8 +232,32 @@ _NSIG_TESTS = [
         'W9HJZKktxuYoDTqW', 'jHbbkcaxm54',
     ),
     (
-        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/91201489/player_ias_tce.vflset/en_US/base.js',
-        'W9HJZKktxuYoDTqW', 'U48vOZHaeYS6vO',
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/643afba4/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js',
+        'W9HJZKktxuYoDTqW', 'larxUlagTRAcSw',
+    ),
+    (
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/e7567ecf/player_ias_tce.vflset/en_US/base.js',
+        'Sy4aDGc0VpYRR9ew_', '5UPOT1VhoZxNLQ',
+    ),
+    (
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/d50f54ef/player_ias_tce.vflset/en_US/base.js',
+        'Ha7507LzRmH3Utygtj', 'XFTb2HoeOE5MHg',
+    ),
+    (
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/074a8365/player_ias_tce.vflset/en_US/base.js',
+        'Ha7507LzRmH3Utygtj', 'ufTsrE0IVYrkl8v',
+    ),
+    (
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/643afba4/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js',
+        'N5uAlLqm0eg1GyHO', 'dCBQOejdq5s-ww',
+    ),
+    (
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/69f581a5/tv-player-ias.vflset/tv-player-ias.js',
+        '-qIP447rVlTTwaZjY', 'KNcGOksBAvwqQg',
+    ),
+    (
+        'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/643afba4/tv-player-ias.vflset/tv-player-ias.js',
+        'ir9-V6cdbCiyKxhr', '2PL7ZDYAALMfmA',
     ),
 ]
 

youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
             'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
                 'client': {
                     'clientName': 'IOS',
-                    'clientVersion': '19.45.4',
+                    'clientVersion': '20.10.4',
                     'deviceMake': 'Apple',
                     'deviceModel': 'iPhone16,2',
-                    'userAgent': 'com.google.ios.youtube/19.45.4 (iPhone16,2; U; CPU iOS 18_1_0 like Mac OS X;)',
+                    'userAgent': 'com.google.ios.youtube/20.10.4 (iPhone16,2; U; CPU iOS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X;)',
                     'osName': 'iPhone',
-                    'osVersion': '18.1.0.22B83',
+                    'osVersion': '18.3.2.22D82',
                 },
             },
             'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 5,
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
             'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
                 'client': {
                     'clientName': 'MWEB',
-                    'clientVersion': '2.20241202.07.00',
+                    'clientVersion': '2.20250311.03.00',
                     # mweb previously did not require PO Token with this UA
                     'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 16_7_10 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1,gzip(gfe)',
                 },
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
             'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
                 'client': {
                     'clientName': 'TVHTML5',
-                    'clientVersion': '7.20250120.19.00',
+                    'clientVersion': '7.20250312.16.00',
                     'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/Version',
                 },
             },
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
             'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
                 'client': {
                     'clientName': 'WEB',
-                    'clientVersion': '2.20241126.01.00',
+                    'clientVersion': '2.20250312.04.00',
                 },
             },
             'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 1,
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         'invidious': '|'.join(_INVIDIOUS_SITES),
     }
     _PLAYER_INFO_RE = (
-        r'/s/player/(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{8,})/player',
+        r'/s/player/(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{8,})//(?:tv-)?player',
         r'/(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{8,})/player(?:_ias\.vflset(?:/[a-zA-Z]{2,3}_[a-zA-Z]{2,3})?|-plasma-ias-(?:phone|tablet)-[a-z]{2}_[A-Z]{2}\.vflset)/base\.js$',
         r'\b(?P<id>vfl[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)\b.*?\.js$',
     )
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
     def _extract_n_function_code_jsi(self, video_id, jsi, player_id=None):
 
         var_ay = self._search_regex(
-            r'(?:[;\s]|^)\s*(var\s*[\w$]+\s*=\s*"[^"]+"\s*\.\s*split\("\{"\))(?=\s*[,;])',
+            r'(?:[;\s]|^)\s*(var\s*[\w$]+\s*=\s*"(?:\\"|[^"])+"\s*\.\s*split\("\W+"\))(?=\s*[,;])',
             jsi.code, 'useful values', default='')
 
         func_name = self._extract_n_function_name(jsi.code)