[ie/youtube:search:date] Remove broken ytsearchdate support (#15959)

Closes #15898
Authored by: stastix

README.md

@@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
 * **Merged with animelover1984/youtube-dl**: You get most of the features and improvements from [animelover1984/youtube-dl](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl) including `--write-comments`, `BiliBiliSearch`, `BilibiliChannel`, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, playlist infojson etc. See [#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.
 
 * **YouTube improvements**:
-    * Supports Clips, Stories (`ytstories:<channel UCID>`), Search (including filters)**\***, YouTube Music Search, Channel-specific search, Search prefixes (`ytsearch:`, `ytsearchdate:`)**\***, Mixes, and Feeds (`:ytfav`, `:ytwatchlater`, `:ytsubs`, `:ythistory`, `:ytrec`, `:ytnotif`)
+    * Supports Clips, Stories (`ytstories:<channel UCID>`), Search (including filters)**\***, YouTube Music Search, Channel-specific search, Search prefix (`ytsearch:`)**\***, Mixes, and Feeds (`:ytfav`, `:ytwatchlater`, `:ytsubs`, `:ythistory`, `:ytrec`, `:ytnotif`)
     * Fix for [n-sig based throttling](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326) **\***
     * Download livestreams from the start using `--live-from-start` (*experimental*)
     * Channel URLs download all uploads of the channel, including shorts and live

yt_dlp/extractor/_extractors.py

@@ -2553,7 +2553,6 @@ from .youtube import (
     YoutubeNotificationsIE,
     YoutubePlaylistIE,
     YoutubeRecommendedIE,
-    YoutubeSearchDateIE,
     YoutubeSearchIE,
     YoutubeSearchURLIE,
     YoutubeShortsAudioPivotIE,

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/__init__.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from ._redirect import (
     YoutubeYtBeIE,
     YoutubeYtUserIE,
 )
-from ._search import YoutubeMusicSearchURLIE, YoutubeSearchDateIE, YoutubeSearchIE, YoutubeSearchURLIE
+from ._search import YoutubeMusicSearchURLIE, YoutubeSearchIE, YoutubeSearchURLIE
 from ._tab import YoutubePlaylistIE, YoutubeTabBaseInfoExtractor, YoutubeTabIE
 from ._video import YoutubeIE
 
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ for _cls in [
     YoutubeYtBeIE,
     YoutubeYtUserIE,
     YoutubeMusicSearchURLIE,
-    YoutubeSearchDateIE,
     YoutubeSearchIE,
     YoutubeSearchURLIE,
     YoutubePlaylistIE,

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_search.py

@@ -28,21 +28,6 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(YoutubeTabBaseInfoExtractor, SearchInfoExtractor):
     }]
 
 
-class YoutubeSearchDateIE(YoutubeTabBaseInfoExtractor, SearchInfoExtractor):
-    IE_NAME = YoutubeSearchIE.IE_NAME + ':date'
-    _SEARCH_KEY = 'ytsearchdate'
-    IE_DESC = 'YouTube search, newest videos first'
-    _SEARCH_PARAMS = 'CAISAhAB8AEB'  # Videos only, sorted by date
-    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'ytsearchdate5:youtube-dl test video',
-        'playlist_count': 5,
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'youtube-dl test video',
-            'title': 'youtube-dl test video',
-        },
-    }]
-
-
 class YoutubeSearchURLIE(YoutubeTabBaseInfoExtractor):
     IE_DESC = 'YouTube search URLs with sorting and filter support'
     IE_NAME = YoutubeSearchIE.IE_NAME + '_url'