James Price d16c025753 Fix YouTube downloads: bump yt-dlp, require Node 22, drop YT cookies ...

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>

2026-06-16 16:12:17 -04:00

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