yt-dlp-ejs: new port, yt-dlp: update to 2025.11.12

[akierig]

Description

yt-dlp-ejs is a new requirement for yt-dlp from version 2025.11.12. It enables yt-dlp to solve JavaScript challenges on YouTube and other sites. Without adding yt-dlp-ejs/JS runtime to yt-dlp, it will not be able to download the highest quality versions of YouTube videos, if it can at all.

This PR also updates yt-dlp to version 2025.11.12.

Type(s)

• bugfix
• enhancement
• security fix

Tested on

macOS 15.7.2 24G325 arm64
Xcode 26.1.1 17B100

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[macportsbot]

Notifying maintainers:
@ryandesign for port youtube-dl.

[ryandesign]

Thanks for looking into this.

[ryandesign]

Please indicate in the commit message that this will close https://trac.macports.org/ticket/73227.

[jmroot]

Per https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2025-November/046546.html quickjs cannot be used to build yt-dlp-ejs, but a platform-agnostic pre-built wheel is available, so it seems we might want to use that, although I'm not sure if the python portgroup provides a way to do that.

You can find some examples by grepping the ports tree for .whl; py-fontaine is one.

[akierig]

Okay here's what I've done.

1. yt-dlp-ejs installs the wheel with prebuilt js (thanks again for the help, @jmroot)
2. deno is a runtime dependency of yt-dlp-ejs. if os.major is <= 16 (eg., MacOS 10.12), the dependency switches to quickjs (please give that a shot @aeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiou). I decided to keep the js runtime in the ejs port to make things simpler for...
3. added the ejs dependency to the yt-dlp subport and added a new yt-dlp port variant called no_javascript which removes the yt-dlp-ejs dependency. I decided to do it that way so that people who use yt-dlp for youtube wouldn't suddenly have to deal with youtube downloads no longer working for them.
4. added @ryandesign as a maintainer on yt-dlp-ejs and removed openmaintainer.

port lint passed, CI here obviously passed, and the js part activates as expected when downloading from youtube.

[akierig]

@ryandesign were there any other changes you wanted to make or does this look good to go?