[ie/youtube] Player client maintenance (#14135)

- Prioritize `tv_simply` over `tv` in default logged-out clients - Revert `tv` client user-agent to work around 403 errors Authored by: bashonly
2025-09-23 23:30:11 +00:00 · 2025-08-23 18:45:29 -05:00
parent 8f4a908300
commit 3bd9154412
3 changed files with 3 additions and 4 deletions
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_base.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_base.py
@@ -305,8 +305,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'TVHTML5',
                'clientVersion': '7.20250312.16.00',
-                # See: https://github.com/youtube/cobalt/blob/main/cobalt/browser/user_agent/user_agent_platform_info.cc#L506
-                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/25.lts.30.1034943-gold (unlike Gecko), Unknown_TV_Unknown_0/Unknown (Unknown, Unknown)',
+                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/Version',
            },
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 7,
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        '401': {'ext': 'mp4', 'height': 2160, 'format_note': 'DASH video', 'vcodec': 'av01.0.12M.08'},
    }
    _SUBTITLE_FORMATS = ('json3', 'srv1', 'srv2', 'srv3', 'ttml', 'srt', 'vtt')
-    _DEFAULT_CLIENTS = ('tv', 'tv_simply', 'web')
+    _DEFAULT_CLIENTS = ('tv_simply', 'tv', 'web')
    _DEFAULT_AUTHED_CLIENTS = ('tv', 'web_safari', 'web')
    # Premium does not require POT (except for subtitles)
    _DEFAULT_PREMIUM_CLIENTS = ('tv', 'web_creator', 'web')