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fix(music): bypass YouTube bot-check via iOS player client#253
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Switch yt-dlp to use the iOS app API instead of the web client to avoid YouTube's bot detection. Also removes a broken no-op retry that caught the same error and re-issued the identical request unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
extractor_args: {"youtube": {"player_client": ["ios"]}}to yt-dlp config to use the iOS app API, which is not subject to the same web-layer bot detection that was blocking downloadsfetch_yt_infosthat caught theDownloadErrorand reissued the exact same request unchanged, which would always fail identicallyDownloadErrorimportTest plan
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