* a check in older Pythons in the 2.7 and earlier, 3.3, 3.4 series caused "sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat"
* satisfy the check by avoiding nested qualifiers that can match empty string
Resolves#31597
Consequently/also:
* centralise video data extraction
* detect 404 and 503 expected errors
* handle the test video in IGNVideo
* handle two additional page formats for the tests in IGNArticle
* support ITVX URLs (thanks Vangelis66)
* support legacy ITV Hub URLs
* include extraction fix 4c57dd2 from sleaux-meaux 3 May 2021
* include extraction fix 6fbcc16, fix by staubichsauger & pukkandan
* work-around duration parsing pending fix to utils.parse_duration
* apply default vanilla UA for pages and media to avoid site blocking
* also detect and report `Episode not found` instead of generic 404
* rework ITVBTCCIE with geo-block detection, best effort geo-restriction handling, news article support
* fix tests
* support subset `... else if ...`
* support `while`
* add `RegExp` class
* generalise `new` support
* limited more debug strings
* matching test changes
* detect kt_player('kt_player', 'https://.../kt_player.swf?v=5...
* detect age limit if 18 USC 2257 is mentioned
* test with shooshtime.com
Partially resolves#31332.
* add ThisVidIE, ThisVidMemberIE, ThisVidPlaylistIE
* redirect embed to main page for more metadata
* use KVS extraction newly added to GenericIE and remove duplicate tests
* also add MrDeepFake etc compat to GenericIE
(closes#22390)
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* don't crash parser if jwplayer_data is invalid (empty, or no formats)
* use `label` in `sources[n]` as `format_id`
* relax `jwplayer().setup(...)` RE (also rework PR #27274 enhancement)
* detect more manifest formats in _parse_jwplayer_formats() (from PR #29596)
* improve metadata extraction (from PR #25433)
* remember URLs in a set
* use parse_resolution() in format
* extract filesize in format (from yt-dlp)
Co-authored-by: kikuyan <kikuyan@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: martin54 <martin54@users.noreply.github.com>
* back-port extractor, removing CeskaTelevizePoradyIE
* follow redirect URL
* support liveBroadcast and videobonusDetail in __NEXT__ data
* return single video for singleton playlist
* fix/add tests
* Backport traverse_obj and closely related function from yt-dlp (code by pukkandan)
* Backport LazyList, variadic(), try_call (code by pukkandan)
* Recast using yt-dlp's newer traverse_obj() implementation and tests (code by grub4k)
* Add tests for Unicode case folding support matching Py3.5+ (requires f102e3d)
* Improve/add tests for variadic, try_call, join_nonempty
Co-authored-by: dirkf <fieldhouse@gmx.net>