oh, btw - I wasn't sure how to write tests that require authentication. I've just set the parameter to use netrc; I feel like that's not ideal, but as I mentioned in the PR, there's almost no videos that don't require authentication. The only one I could find was football match highlights, but they don't stick around for very long.

... Thanks for your efforts 😄 ; back in Sep of last year, I took part in the discussion of related #31236, where the current maintainer (@dirkf) posted a yet unmerged patch to the tenplay.py IE here; I'm not a coder myself 😜 , but feel free to compare the code inside that patch (which worked OK for a single episode back then, when "I" tested it) ...

You might also want to mark your PR as, hopefully, "fixing" open issues #28641, #31236 (main one) and #31302 ...

Regards 😃

... Also, youtube-dl retains support for py2.6/2.7 and py3.2+, so your code should really be tested and made compatible with those environments...

I downloaded locally the tenplay.py file in its current iteration inside your PR and then attempted to "optimise" it with a local py3.4.10 install; py3.4 complained that 😞 :

  File "tenplay.py", line 91
    f'https://10play.com.au/api/shows/{show}/episodes/{season}', f"{show}/{season}",
                                                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

... f-strings were first introduced in py3.6 😉 ...

With apologies to @gormster, I've updated this PR with changes including the latest update from yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/10928.

Since I only get geo-blocking I've also been able to improve that area over the yt-dlp code. But now the actual extraction needs to be tested by users in the AU region, please.

The proper way to do this is to check out this branch and run the program from the youtube-dl directory of the checked-out branch using python -m youtube_dl as the youtube-dl command (with python being whatever you type to run python, probably python3).

A user who is able/happy to patch the changed tenplay.py (this only works for certain installation types and is generally not recommended) can check out the updated TenPlayIE extractor. To try the TenPlaySeasonIE season/series extractor, extractors.py has to be updated too.

In either case please comment out the lines like this

        'skip': 'Only available in Australia',

in the test cases, run the tests and post the results.