[ie/Boosty] include auth token in API call if available

[RasmusAntons]

Fix extracting video URLs from paywalled posts on Boosty

For paywalled posts (posts that require a subscription level), Boosty's API only returns the video URLs if the access token is set. This change attempts to extract the token from the provided cookies and sets the authorization header for the API call accordingly.

Fixes #9401

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[un-def]

I've just checked and can confirm that this works 👍

[pukkandan]

lgtm

[DocFreeman]

I've had no luck with this, tested on Windows and MacOS.

[bashonly]

@DocFreeman you pulled the branch and ran from source? can you show a verbose log please?

[DocFreeman]

@DocFreeman you pulled the branch and ran from source? can you show a verbose log please?

Yes, for MacOS I did that. For Windows I just pulled a nightly build to see if it could partially parse it at least but it could not.

/Users/******/Downloads/yt-dlp-boosty/yt-dlp -v https://boosty.to/******media/video/f578be90-4a0d-4a88-bb31-e9844b613df3 [debug] Command-line config: ['-v', 'https://boosty.to/*****/media/video/f578be90-4a0d-4a88-bb31-e9844b613df3'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [ff0779267] (zip) [debug] Python 3.12.3 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-14.2.1-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024) [debug] exe versions: none [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.45.1, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: ['/Users/******/.config/yt-dlp/plugins/boosty/yt_dlp_plugins'] [debug] Loaded 1810 extractors [generic] Extracting URL: https://boosty.to/*****/media/video/f578be90-4a0d-4a88-bb31-e9844b613df3 [generic] f578be90-4a0d-4a88-bb31-e9844b613df3: Downloading webpage [redirect] Following redirect to https://boosty.to/ [generic] Extracting URL: https://boosty.to/ [generic] boosty: Downloading webpage WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor [generic] boosty: Extracting information [debug] Looking for embeds ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://boosty.to/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/******/Downloads/yt-dlp-boosty/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1606, in wrapper return func(self, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/******/Downloads/yt-dlp-boosty/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1741, in __extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/******/Downloads/yt-dlp-boosty/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 734, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/******/Downloads/yt-dlp-boosty/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py", line 2514, in _real_extract raise UnsupportedError(url) yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://boosty.to/

[bashonly]

1. /media/video/ URLs are not supported (yet) by the extractor
2. that is the stable unix/zip release, it does not have the PR's patch applied
3. you're not passing cookies to yt-dlp

This PR specifically only fixes paywalled /posts/ URLs when the user passes cookies to yt-dlp

[shilin-da]

It's working! Thanks a lot! 🤝