Improve plugin architecture (#5553)

to make plugins easier to develop and use:
* Plugins are now loaded as namespace packages.
* Plugins can be loaded in any distribution of yt-dlp (binary, pip, source, etc.).
* Plugin packages can be installed and managed via pip, or dropped into any of the documented locations.
* Users do not need to edit any code files to install plugins.
* Backwards-compatible with previous plugin architecture.

As a side-effect, yt-dlp will now search in a few more locations for config files.

Closes https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/1389

Authored by: flashdagger, coletdjnz, pukkandan, Grub4K
Co-authored-by: Marcel <flashdagger@googlemail.com>
Co-authored-by: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Simon Sawicki <accounts@grub4k.xyz>
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Matthew
2023-01-01 04:29:22 +00:00
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@@ -120,9 +120,5 @@ yt-dlp.zip
*/extractor/lazy_extractors.py
# Plugins
ytdlp_plugins/extractor/*
!ytdlp_plugins/extractor/__init__.py
!ytdlp_plugins/extractor/sample.py
ytdlp_plugins/postprocessor/*
!ytdlp_plugins/postprocessor/__init__.py
!ytdlp_plugins/postprocessor/sample.py
ytdlp_plugins/*
yt-dlp-plugins/*