Fix quality: use tv_embedded,web player client instead of web-only

YouTube's web client gets SABR format restrictions in 2025-2026 yt-dlp,
limiting available streams and causing fallback to 360p. tv_embedded
bypasses SABR and exposes the full format list including 4K.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Mattias Tall
2026-05-26 17:48:10 +02:00
parent 83e2685c6a
commit 8da361b087

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@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ def fetch_video_metadata(video_id: str) -> dict | None:
base_cmd = [
"yt-dlp", url,
"--dump-json", "--no-download", "--no-playlist",
"--extractor-args", "youtube:player_client=web",
"--extractor-args", "youtube:player_client=tv_embedded,web",
]
stdout, stderr, code = _run([*base_cmd, *cookie_args], timeout=30)
if code != 0:
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ def start_download(
"--no-part", "--no-mtime",
"-o", output_template,
"--newline", "--progress", "--no-colors",
"--extractor-args", "youtube:player_client=web",
"--extractor-args", "youtube:player_client=tv_embedded,web",
*cookie_args,
],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,