From 49f3741a820ed142f6866317c2e7d247b130960e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:12:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/youtube] Support excluding `player_client`s in
 extractor-arg (#10710)

Closes #10699
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
index 224c9b988c..2501398ba1 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1339,6 +1339,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         short_client_name(client): client
         for client in ('android', 'android_creator', 'android_music')
     }
+    _DEFAULT_CLIENTS = ('ios', 'web_creator')
 
     _GEO_BYPASS = False
 
@@ -3744,17 +3745,19 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
     def _get_requested_clients(self, url, smuggled_data):
         requested_clients = []
         broken_clients = []
-        default = ['ios', 'web_creator']
+        excluded_clients = []
         allowed_clients = sorted(
             (client for client in INNERTUBE_CLIENTS if client[:1] != '_'),
             key=lambda client: INNERTUBE_CLIENTS[client]['priority'], reverse=True)
         for client in self._configuration_arg('player_client'):
             if client == 'default':
-                requested_clients.extend(default)
+                requested_clients.extend(self._DEFAULT_CLIENTS)
             elif client == 'all':
                 requested_clients.extend(allowed_clients)
+            elif client.startswith('-'):
+                excluded_clients.append(client[1:])
             elif client not in allowed_clients:
-                self.report_warning(f'Skipping unsupported client {client}')
+                self.report_warning(f'Skipping unsupported client "{client}"')
             elif client in self._BROKEN_CLIENTS.values():
                 broken_clients.append(client)
             else:
@@ -3762,7 +3765,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         # Force deprioritization of _BROKEN_CLIENTS for format de-duplication
         requested_clients.extend(broken_clients)
         if not requested_clients:
-            requested_clients = default
+            requested_clients.extend(self._DEFAULT_CLIENTS)
+        for excluded_client in excluded_clients:
+            if excluded_client in requested_clients:
+                requested_clients.remove(excluded_client)
+        if not requested_clients:
+            raise ExtractorError('No player clients have been requested', expected=True)
 
         if smuggled_data.get('is_music_url') or self.is_music_url(url):
             for requested_client in requested_clients: