[Chaturbate] Consider using the API

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Example URLs

https://chaturbate.com/kira_censori/

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Currently yt-dlp loads the entire page to find the m3u8 stream URL, but another way is to use the API:

$ curl -X POST "https://chaturbate.com/get_edge_hls_url_ajax/" -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -d "room_slug=kira_censori"

{
    "success": true,
    "url": "https://edge17-hel.live.mmcdn.com/live-hls/amlst:kira_censori-sd-203fe4e99b463f0b5013d75b7f491286d7f8cbdad109cef79db409bfc80e33d0_trns_h264/playlist.m3u8",
    "room_status": "public",
    "hidden_message": ""
}

This endpoint provides the same m3u8 stream URL that is embedded in HTML (specifically in window.initialRoomDossier). The advantage is that this is ~500 times smaller in size compared to downloading the entire HTML page and simplifies error handling.

Here is a rough sequence of actions:

if "success":
  - true:
    if "room_status":
      - "public":
        if "url":
          - [m3u8 stream url]
          - "": [room is geo-blocked]
      - something else: [room is private or offline]
  - false: [room doesn't exist]

All possible room_status values can be found here. Not sure what we need to tell the user in non-public cases, above is just an example.

Maybe someday I'll do a PR if I have time. What do you think about that?

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

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