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plugins.youtube: fix video ID retrieval #5673

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Fixes #5672

@cgomesu please check
https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-request-feedback

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews
Available streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews/live
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews/live
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews
Available streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews/live
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews/live
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/c/ABCNews
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/c/ABCNews
Available streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/c/ABCNews/live
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/c/ABCNews/live
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/@recordnews
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/@recordnews
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/@recordnews/live
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/@recordnews/live
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/c/recordnews
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/c/recordnews
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)

$ streamlink https://www.youtube.com/c/recordnews/live
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/c/recordnews/live
Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)

$ ./script/test-plugin-urls.py youtube --ignore CHANNEL
:: Finding streams for URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/aqz-KE-bpKQ
:: Found streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 720p60, 1080p60, 1440p60, 2160p60, worst, best
:: Finding streams for URL: https://www.youtube.com/live/aqz-KE-bpKQ
:: Found streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 720p60, 1080p60, 1440p60, 2160p60, worst, best
:: Finding streams for URL: https://www.youtube.com/v/aqz-KE-bpKQ
:: Found streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 720p60, 1080p60, 1440p60, 2160p60, worst, best
:: Finding streams for URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?foo=bar&baz=qux&v=aqz-KE-bpKQ&asdf=1234
:: Found streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 720p60, 1080p60, 1440p60, 2160p60, worst, best
:: Finding streams for URL: https://youtu.be/aqz-KE-bpKQ
:: Found streams: audio_mp4a, audio_opus, 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 720p60, 1080p60, 1440p60, 2160p60, worst, best

@bastimeyer bastimeyer added the plugin issue A Plugin does not work correctly label Nov 18, 2023
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Some non-/live URLs don't seem to return a live stream and instead a VOD, which is then bandwidth-limited due to the plugin's lack of signed content URLs.

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Some non-/live URLs don't seem to return a live stream and instead a VOD, which is then bandwidth-limited due to the plugin's lack of signed content URLs.

It's probably because the channel has not highlighted their live stream in this case, so this should be fine...

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cgomesu commented Nov 18, 2023

@cgomesu please check https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-request-feedback

I can confirm that the change fixes the issue on my end:

streamlink --loglevel debug https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl best
[session][debug] Plugin youtube is being overridden by /home/gomes/.local/share/streamlink/plugins/youtube.py
[cli][debug] OS:         Linux-6.1.0-13-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.36
[cli][debug] Python:     3.11.2
[cli][debug] OpenSSL:    OpenSSL 3.0.11 19 Sep 2023
[cli][debug] Streamlink: 6.3.1
[cli][debug] Dependencies:
[cli][debug]  certifi: 2023.11.17
[cli][debug]  isodate: 0.6.1
[cli][debug]  lxml: 4.9.3
[cli][debug]  pycountry: 22.3.5
[cli][debug]  pycryptodome: 3.19.0
[cli][debug]  PySocks: 1.7.1
[cli][debug]  requests: 2.31.0
[cli][debug]  trio: 0.23.1
[cli][debug]  trio-websocket: 0.11.1
[cli][debug]  typing-extensions: 4.8.0
[cli][debug]  urllib3: 2.1.0
[cli][debug]  websocket-client: 1.6.4
[cli][debug] Arguments:
[cli][debug]  url=https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl
[cli][debug]  stream=['best']
[cli][debug]  --loglevel=debug
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl
[plugins.youtube][debug] Using video ID: jfKfPfyJRdk
[plugins.youtube][debug] This video is live.
[utils.l10n][debug] Language code: pt_BR
[cli][info] Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 1080p (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: /usr/bin/vlc
[stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist
[cli][debug] Pre-buffering 8192 bytes
[stream.hls][debug] First Sequence: 7307198; Last Sequence: 7307203
[stream.hls][debug] Start offset: 0; Duration: None; Start Sequence: 7307201; End Sequence: None
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 7307201 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 7307202 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 7307203 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 7307201 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 7307201 complete
[cli.output][debug] Opening subprocess: ['/usr/bin/vlc', '--input-title-format', 'https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl', '-']
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 7307202 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 7307202 complete
[cli][debug] Writing stream to output
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 7307203 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 7307203 complete
[stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 7307204 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 7307204 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 7307204 complete
[stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 7307205 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 7307205 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 7307205 complete
^C[stream.segmented][debug] Closing worker thread
[stream.segmented][debug] Closing writer thread
[cli][info] Stream ended
Interrupted! Exiting...
[cli][info] Closing currently open stream...

@bastimeyer bastimeyer merged commit 7874c7e into streamlink:master Nov 18, 2023
@bastimeyer bastimeyer deleted the plugins/youtube/fix-ytInitialData branch November 18, 2023 19:56
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