Improve `extractor_args` parsing

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
index 1233cc399..de70fcdd3 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -2207,11 +2207,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
 
         player_url = self._extract_player_url(ytcfg, webpage)
 
-        player_client = try_get(self._configuration_arg('player_client'), lambda x: x[0], str) or ''
-        if player_client.upper() not in ('WEB', 'ANDROID'):
-            player_client = 'WEB'
-        force_mobile_client = player_client.upper() == 'ANDROID'
-        player_skip = self._configuration_arg('player_skip') or []
+        player_client = (self._configuration_arg('player_client') or [''])[0]
+        if player_client not in ('web', 'android', ''):
+            self.report_warning(f'Invalid player_client {player_client} given. Falling back to WEB')
+        force_mobile_client = player_client == 'android'
+        player_skip = self._configuration_arg('player_skip')
 
         def get_text(x):
             if not x:
@@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                     dct['container'] = dct['ext'] + '_dash'
             formats.append(dct)
 
-        skip_manifests = self._configuration_arg('skip') or []
+        skip_manifests = self._configuration_arg('skip')
         get_dash = 'dash' not in skip_manifests and self.get_param('youtube_include_dash_manifest', True)
         get_hls = 'hls' not in skip_manifests and self.get_param('youtube_include_hls_manifest', True)