coletdjnz b6de707d13 [youtube] Improvements to JS player extraction (See desc) (#860) ...

* 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

2021-09-06 12:56:41 +05:30

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