Please pull latest Github master for youtube-dl to fix YouTube Shorts

[danswett]

The problem

Trying to use media_extractor on a YouTube Shorts URL fails with an "unable to recognize tab page" error. This was fixed in yt-dl and merged in February, but the issue persists in the media_extractor in Home Assistant.

ytdl-org/youtube-dl#30269
ytdl-org/youtube-dl#30626 (comment)

Examples of logs from my HA instance:
Logger: homeassistant.components.media_extractor
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py:526
Integration: media_extractor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: June 5, 2022, 9:57:46 PM (6 occurrences)
Last logged: June 5, 2022, 10:05:13 PM

ERROR: Unable to recognize tab page; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.6.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

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Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[probot-home-assistant]

media_extractor documentation
media_extractor source
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[danswett]

Going back and forth with the owner of the youtube-dl repo. Seems like he fixed this after the latest official release which is the version currently pinned in HA Core (2021.12.17).

I've asked if there's a timeline for another "official" release as I assume the HA core folks won't be super keen to move off the "official" release RE: potential risk.

[frenck]

Home Assistant can't work with branches and needs releases published on Pypi.

[danswett]

It's not completed - this still doesn't work.

[frenck]

It's not completed - this still doesn't work.

We can't make it work more, it depends on upstream changes/release. We are at the latest version possible. See also comments above.

[chpego]

Why not using the yt-dlp project fork instead of youtube-dl in media_extractor component ?
I made a copy of the component in the custom folder, modifying the associated lines; it seems to work

[frenck]

Feel free to contribute changes or fixes, this is an open-source project. 👍