[extractor/youtube:stories] Remove (#7459)

YouTube killed them

https://web.archive.org/web/20230630153050/https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/217640760

yt_dlp/extractor/_extractors.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ from .youtube import (  # Youtube is moved to the top to improve performance
     YoutubeSearchURLIE,
     YoutubeMusicSearchURLIE,
     YoutubeSubscriptionsIE,
-    YoutubeStoriesIE,
     YoutubeTruncatedIDIE,
     YoutubeTruncatedURLIE,
     YoutubeYtBeIE,

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -2499,29 +2499,6 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                 'uploader_id': '@abaointokyo',
             },
             'params': {'skip_download': True}
-        }, {
-            # Story. Requires specific player params to work.
-            'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv8qTUWmulI',
-            'info_dict': {
-                'id': 'vv8qTUWmulI',
-                'ext': 'mp4',
-                'availability': 'unlisted',
-                'view_count': int,
-                'channel_id': 'UCzIZ8HrzDgc-pNQDUG6avBA',
-                'upload_date': '20220526',
-                'categories': ['Education'],
-                'title': 'Story',
-                'channel': 'IT\'S HISTORY',
-                'description': '',
-                'duration': 12,
-                'playable_in_embed': True,
-                'age_limit': 0,
-                'live_status': 'not_live',
-                'tags': [],
-                'thumbnail': 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/vv8qTUWmulI/maxresdefault.webp',
-                'channel_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzIZ8HrzDgc-pNQDUG6avBA',
-            },
-            'skip': 'stories get removed after some period of time',
         }, {
             'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjjjtzRLHvA',
             'info_dict': {
@@ -3620,7 +3597,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         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))
@@ -4033,8 +4010,6 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         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)
 
@@ -7145,22 +7120,6 @@ class YoutubeHistoryIE(YoutubeFeedsInfoExtractor):
     }]
 
 
-class YoutubeStoriesIE(InfoExtractor):
-    IE_DESC = 'YouTube channel stories; "ytstories:" prefix'
-    IE_NAME = 'youtube:stories'
-    _VALID_URL = r'ytstories:UC(?P<id>[A-Za-z0-9_-]{21}[AQgw])$'
-    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'ytstories:UCwFCb4jeqaKWnciAYM-ZVHg',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }]
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        playlist_id = f'RLTD{self._match_id(url)}'
-        return self.url_result(
-            smuggle_url(f'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list={playlist_id}&playnext=1', {'is_story': True}),
-            ie=YoutubeTabIE, video_id=playlist_id)
-
-
 class YoutubeShortsAudioPivotIE(InfoExtractor):
     IE_DESC = 'YouTube Shorts audio pivot (Shorts using audio of a given video)'
     IE_NAME = 'youtube:shorts:pivot:audio'