Bugfix: Extract visitor data from sw.js_data API instead of randomly… #1271
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In #1262, visitor data was randomly generated for the iOS client, but this has recently broken. This PR tries to extract this data from
https://www.youtube.com/sw.js_data
as suggested by @gechoto in TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#11980. Works on NewPipe, with the expected behaviour of videos properly loading. Also took it for a spin with a bike ride :)The solution doesn't feel very robust, but further work on parsing the all the data coming from this endpoint is not something I'm knowledgeable about.