cookiesfrombrowser parameter from api triggers TypeError

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Running yt-dlp from catt via the cli api with 'cookiesfrombrowser=firefox' raises a TypeError. I am running Python 3.11.9.

cookies.py calls _parse_browser_specification with a pointer to string browser_specification appears to attempt to call with 7 parameters (characters in string firefox).

Removing the * appears to be working for me.

(I have made minor edits to verbose output to sanitise the data.)

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [12b248ce6] (pip) API
[debug] params: {'verbose': '1', 'cookiesfrombrowser': 'firefox', 'compat_opts': set(), 'http_headers': {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.55 Safari/537.36', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'navigate'}}
[debug] Python 3.11.9 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.7.12-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.38 (OpenSSL 3.2.2-dev , glibc 2.38)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1.1-4 (setts), ffprobe 6.1.1-4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.06.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.46.0, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/.local/bin/catt", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/catt/cli.py", line 667, in main
    return cli(obj=get_config_as_dict())
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1157, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1078, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1688, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1434, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 783, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 45, in new_func
    return f(get_current_context().obj, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/catt/cli.py", line 232, in cast
    cst, stream = setup_cast(
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/catt/controllers.py", line 81, in setup_cast
    stream = StreamInfo(video_url, cast_info=cast.cast_info, ytdl_options=ytdl_options) if video_url else None
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/catt/stream_info.py", line 41, in __init__
    self._ydl = yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(dict(ytdl_options) if ytdl_options else DEFAULT_YTDL_OPTS)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 700, in __init__
    self.print_debug_header()
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4046, in print_debug_header
    write_debug(f'Request Handlers: {", ".join(rh.RH_NAME for rh in self._request_director.handlers.values())}')
                                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/functools.py", line 1001, in __get__
    val = self.func(instance)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4222, in _request_director
    return self.build_request_director(_REQUEST_HANDLERS.values(), _RH_PREFERENCES)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4197, in build_request_director
    cookiejar=self.cookiejar,
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/functools.py", line 1001, in __get__
    val = self.func(instance)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4093, in cookiejar
    return load_cookies(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/catt/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 92, in load_cookies
    browser_name, profile, keyring, container = _parse_browser_specification(*browser_specification)
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: _parse_browser_specification() takes from 1 to 4 positional arguments but 7 were given

[seproDev]

You don't need to guess the parameters for the api, but can use devscripts/cli_to_api.py

{'cookiesfrombrowser': ('firefox', None, None, None)}

The tuple is being used for the optional parts of the --cookies-from-browser argument (keyring, profile, container)