Two YouTube regressions stacked up:
- yt-dlp 2026.3.17 hit "HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" on the actual media
download. Bumping to 2026.6.9 fixes the data-download 403, but its EJS
n-sig challenge solver now requires Node >= 22, and Debian 13 only ships
Node 20 ("node-20.x (unsupported)" -> only image formats resolve). bot.py
now points --js-runtimes at a standalone /opt/node22 via the new
JS_RUNTIME constant.
- With a cookies.txt present, yt-dlp skips the cookieless android_vr/android
clients (whose URLs work) and falls back to the `tv` client, whose media
URLs 403. New _cookie_args(url) withholds cookies for YouTube hosts only,
while still sending them to Instagram/TikTok/X.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Group-chat bot that downloads videos from X/Instagram/YouTube/TikTok links
via yt-dlp and posts them back, plus /speed and /rev video toys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
