[YouTube] Make `_extract_player_info()` use `_search_regex()`

test/test_youtube_signature.py

@@ -280,8 +280,9 @@ class TestPlayerInfo(unittest.TestCase):
             ('https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/html5player-en_US-vflXGBaUN.js', 'vflXGBaUN'),
             ('https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/html5player-en_US-vflKjOTVq/html5player.js', 'vflKjOTVq'),
         )
+        ie = YoutubeIE(FakeYDL({'cachedir': False}))
         for player_url, expected_player_id in PLAYER_URLS:
-            player_id = YoutubeIE._extract_player_info(player_url)
+            player_id = ie._extract_player_info(player_url)
             self.assertEqual(player_id, expected_player_id)
 
 

youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -1626,15 +1626,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         """ Return a string representation of a signature """
         return '.'.join(compat_str(len(part)) for part in example_sig.split('.'))
 
-    @classmethod
-    def _extract_player_info(cls, player_url):
-        for player_re in cls._PLAYER_INFO_RE:
-            id_m = re.search(player_re, player_url)
-            if id_m:
-                break
-        else:
-            raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
-        return id_m.group('id')
+    def _extract_player_info(self, player_url):
+        try:
+            return self._search_regex(
+                self._PLAYER_INFO_RE, player_url, 'player info', group='id')
+        except ExtractorError as e:
+            raise ExtractorError(
+                'Cannot identify player %r' % (player_url,), cause=e)
 
     def _load_player(self, video_id, player_url, fatal=True, player_id=None):
         if not player_id: