This commit adds support for channel home pages and all of the
categories within it. However, the frontend code is a mess and thus
needs to be refactor soon. Though that would likely require a rework of
items.ecr
This commit also comes with some general cleanups and improvements.
Before this commit channel brand URls would only be supported on the
videos page (now home page). It has been improved to be able to handle
all channel URLs.
The category_type and auxiliary_data property has also been removed from
the Category struct. The former was never used and the latter allows for
random data to be added to the Struct presenting documentation issues.
Since the auxiliary_data variable was mainly used to store values from
the browse_endpoint in order to create URLs, its much simpler to instead
just get the URL from the webCommandMetadata.
As a result of this change the browse_endpoint_data attribute of
Category has also been removed.
This commit adds a new parser for YT's shelfRenderers which are
typically used to denote different categories.The code for featured
channels parsing has also been moved to use the new parser but some
additional refactoring are needed there.
The ContinuationExtractor has also been improved and is now capable of
extraction continuation data that is packaged under
"appendContinuationItemsAction"
In additional this commit adds some useful helper functions to extract
the current selected tab the continuation token. This is to mainly
reduce code size and repetition.
This commit completely rewrites the extract_item and extract_items
function. Before this commit these two function were an unreadable
mess. The extract_item function was a lengthy if-elsif chain
while the extract_items function contained an incomprehensible
mess of .try, else and ||.
With this commit both of these functions have been pulled into a
separate file with the internal logic being moved to a few classes.
This significantly reduces the size of these two methods, enhances
readability and makes adding new extraction/parse rules much simpler.
See diff for details.
