From 57d7dfd39e680cf4d98534740da9da4a02687fbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Robertson <robertson.patrick@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:25:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Create placeholder _extract_post on base
 InfoExtractor class"

This reverts commit bc1aab0351ffc3ecd3b2e2677098b6635be0a564.
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/common.py | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index fa20e57d4..92ddad2b7 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -731,15 +731,6 @@ class InfoExtractor:
                 self._downloader.write_debug(
                     f'Using fake IP {self._x_forwarded_for_ip} ({country.upper()}) as X-Forwarded-For')
 
-    def _extract_post(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Extracts post data (in json format) for the given platform.
-
-        Not all extractors will implement/require this method.
-        The method args and kwargs are up to the extractor to define as per what's needed for the given platform.
-        """
-        raise NotImplementedError
-
     def extract(self, url):
         """Extracts URL information and returns it in list of dicts."""
         try: