[YouTube] Remove broken clients, update clients constants and fix some tests - #78
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As nobody is able to generate poTokens for first two, we shouldn't add code that will be unused and add complexity. The WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER, used to bypass a very few age-restrictions, wasn't used for a while in the current extractor code and requires some parameters the extractor doesn't currently support. As a result of this removal, DASH manifests are no longer available, videos made for kids cannot be played and the following elements have been removed: - methods: - YoutubeStreamExtractor.forceFetchIosClient - YoutubeParsingHelper.getAndroidUserAgent - YoutubeParsingHelper.getIosUserAgent - YoutubeParsingHelper.isAndroidStreamingUrl - YoutubeParsingHelper.isIosStreamingUrl - YoutubeParsingHelper.isWebEmbeddedPlayerStreamingUrl - InnertubeClientRequestInfo.ofAndroidClient - InnertubeClientRequestInfo.ofIosClient - InnertubeClientRequestInfo.ofWebEmbeddedPlayerClient - PoTokenProvider.getAndroidClientPoToken - PoTokenProvider.getIosClientPoToken - PoTokenProvider.getWebEmbedClientPoToken - constants: related constants of ANDROID, IOS and WEB_EMBEDDED clients
This is a temporary change until we can extract videos made for kids again.
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