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fix: use iOS player client to bypass YouTube bot detection

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YouTube restricts available formats for bot-like requests. Specifying
player_client=ios,web makes yt-dlp impersonate the iOS app which has
broader format access without requiring cookies.
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Julien Calixte
2026-03-23 22:39:48 +01:00
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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ async def extract_audio(url: str) -> Path:
"--audio-format", "mp3", "--audio-format", "mp3",
"--audio-quality", "128K", "--audio-quality", "128K",
"--format", "bestaudio/best/b", "--format", "bestaudio/best/b",
"--extractor-args", "youtube:player_client=ios,web",
"--output", outtmpl, "--output", outtmpl,
] ]