[ie/youtube:stories] Remove YoutubeStoriesIE

[coletdjnz]

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stories is dead

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23736246/youtube-ending-stories-shorts-community-posts
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/25/youtube-stories-are-shutting-down-june-26-as-company-focuses-on-shorts/

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Drop YouTube stories support from yt-dlp. Delete the YoutubeStoriesIE class and related code from yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py.

Sing, O Muse, of the daring deeds of yt-dlp,
The swift and versatile downloader of online videos,
Who faced the wrath of YouTube and its fleeting stories,
And boldly stripped them from his code with skillful strokes.

Walkthrough

• Remove YoutubeStoriesIE extractor and related code, as YouTube stories are no longer available (link, link, F0L7439R

[pukkandan]

Also do:

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
index d5607975e..66eca7198 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -3612,7 +3612,7 @@ def _extract_player_response(self, client, video_id, master_ytcfg, player_ytcfg,
         yt_query = {
             'videoId': video_id,
         }
-        if smuggled_data.get('is_story') or _split_innertube_client(client)[0] == 'android':
+        if _split_innertube_client(client)[0] == 'android':
             yt_query['params'] = self._PLAYER_PARAMS

         yt_query.update(self._generate_player_context(sts))
@@ -4025,8 +4025,6 @@ def _download_player_responses(self, url, smuggled_data, video_id, webpage_url):
         webpage = None
         if 'webpage' not in self._configuration_arg('player_skip'):
             query = {'bpctr': '9999999999', 'has_verified': '1'}
-            if smuggled_data.get('is_story'):  # XXX: Deprecated
-                query['pp'] = self._PLAYER_PARAMS
             webpage = self._download_webpage(
                 webpage_url, video_id, fatal=False, query=query)