yt-dlp/Changelog.md

Changelog

2022.03.08

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/6508688 (except NDR)
• Add regex operator and quoting to format filters by lukasfink1
• Add brotli content-encoding support by coletdjnz
• Add pre-processor stage after_filter
• Better error message when no --live-from-start format
• Create necessary directories for --print-to-file
• Fill more fields for playlists by Lesmiscore
• Fix -all for --sub-langs
• Fix doubling of video_id in ExtractorError
• Fix for when stdout/stderr encoding is None
• Handle negative duration from extractor
• Implement --add-header without modifying std_headers
• Obey --abort-on-error for "ffmpeg not installed"
• Set webpage_url_... from webpage_url and not input URL
• Tolerate failure to --write-link due to unknown URL
• [aria2c] Add --http-accept-gzip=true
• [build] Update pyinstaller to 4.10 by shirt-dev
• [cookies] Update MacOS12 Cookies.binarycookies location by mdpauley
• [devscripts] Improve prepare_manpage
• [downloader] Do not use aria2c for non-native m3u8
• [downloader] Obey --file-access-retries when deleting/renaming by ehoogeveen-medweb
• [extractor] Allow http_headers to be specified for thumbnails
• [extractor] Extract subtitles from manifests for vimeo, globo, kaltura, svt by fstirlitz
• [extractor] Fix for manifests without period duration by dirkf, pukkandan
• [extractor] Support --mark-watched without _NETRC_MACHINE by coletdjnz
• [FFmpegConcat] Abort on --simulate
• [FormatSort] Consider acodec=ogg as vorbis
• [fragment] Fix bugs around resuming with Range by Lesmiscore
• [fragment] Improve --live-from-start for YouTube livestreams by Lesmiscore
• [generic] Pass referer to extracted formats
• [generic] Set rss guid as video id by Bricio
• [options] Better ambiguous option resolution
• [options] Rename --clean-infojson to --clean-info-json
• [SponsorBlock] Fixes for highlight and "full video labels" by nihil-admirari
• [Sponsorblock] minor fixes by nihil-admirari
• [utils] Better traceback for ExtractorError
• [utils] Fix file locking for AOSP by jakeogh
• [utils] Improve file locking
• [utils] OnDemandPagedList: Do not download pages after error
• [utils] render_table: Fix character calculation for removing extra gap by Lesmiscore
• [utils] Use locked_file for sanitize_open by jakeogh
• [utils] Validate DateRange input
• [utils] WebSockets wrapper for non-async functions by Lesmiscore
• [cleanup] Don't pass protocol to _extract_m3u8_formats for live videos
• [cleanup] Remove extractors for some dead websites by marieell
• [cleanup, docs] Misc cleanup
• [AbemaTV] Add extractors by Lesmiscore
• [adobepass] Add Suddenlink MSO by CplPwnies
• [ant1newsgr] Add extractor by zmousm
• [bigo] Add extractor by Lesmiscore
• [Caltrans] Add extractor by Bricio
• [daystar] Add extractor by hatienl0i261299
• [fc2:live] Add extractor by Lesmiscore
• [fptplay] Add extractor by hatienl0i261299
• [murrtube] Add extractor by cyberfox1691
• [nfb] Add extractor by ofkz
• [niconico] Add playlist extractors and refactor by Lesmiscore
• [peekvids] Add extractor by schn0sch
• [piapro] Add extractor by pycabbage, Lesmiscore
• [rokfin] Add extractor by P-reducible, pukkandan
• [rokfin] Add stack and channel extractors by P-reducible, pukkandan
• [ruv.is] Add extractor by iw0nderhow
• [telegram] Add extractor by hatienl0i261299
• [VideocampusSachsen] Add extractors by FestplattenSchnitzel
• [xinpianchang] Add extractor by hatienl0i261299
• [abc] Support 1080p by Ronnnny
• [afreecatv] Support password-protected livestreams by wlritchi
• [ard] Fix valid URL
• [ATVAt] Detect geo-restriction by marieell
• [bandcamp] Detect acodec
• [bandcamp] Fix user URLs by lyz-code
• [bbc] Fix extraction of news articles by ajj8
• [beeg] Fix extractor by Bricio
• [bigo] Fix extractor to not to use form_params
• [Bilibili] Pass referer for all formats by blackgear
• [Biqle] Fix extractor by Bricio
• [ccma] Fix timestamp parsing by nyuszika7h
• [crunchyroll] Better error reporting on login failure by tejing1
• [cspan] Support of C-Span congress videos by Grabien
• [dropbox] fix regex by zenerdi0de
• [fc2] Fix extraction by Lesmiscore
• [fujitv] Extract resolution for free sources by YuenSzeHong
• [Gettr] Add GettrStreamingIE by i6t
• [Gettr] Fix formats order by i6t
• [Gettr] Improve extractor by i6t
• [globo] Expand valid URL by Bricio
• [lbry] Fix --ignore-no-formats-error
• [manyvids] Extract uploader by regarten
• [mildom] Fix linter
• [mildom] Rework extractors by Lesmiscore
• [mirrativ] Cleanup extractor code by Lesmiscore
• [nhk] Add support for NHK for School by Lesmiscore
• [niconico:tag] Add support for searching tags
• [nrk] Add fallback API
• [peekvids] Use JSON-LD by schn0sch
• [peertube] Add media.fsfe.org by mxmehl
• [rtvs] Fix extractor by Bricio
• [spiegel] Fix _VALID_URL
• [ThumbnailsConvertor] Support webp
• [tiktok] Fix vm.tiktok/vt.tiktok URLs
• [tubitv] Fix/improve TV series extraction by bbepis
• [tumblr] Fix extractor by foghawk
• [twitcasting] Add fallback for finding running live by Lesmiscore
• [TwitCasting] Check for password protection by Lesmiscore
• [twitcasting] Fix extraction by Lesmiscore
• [twitch] Fix field name of view_count
• [twitter] Fix for private videos by iphoting
• [washingtonpost] Fix extractor by Bricio
• [youtube:tab] Add approximate_date extractor-arg
• [youtube:tab] Follow redirect to regional channel by coletdjnz
• [youtube:tab] Reject webpage data if redirected to home page
• [youtube] De-prioritize potentially damaged formats
• [youtube] Differentiate descriptive audio by language code
• [youtube] Ensure subtitle urls are absolute by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Escape possible $ in _extract_n_function_name regex by Lesmiscore
• [youtube] Fix automatic captions
• [youtube] Fix n-sig extraction for phone player JS by MinePlayersPE
• [youtube] Further de-prioritize 3gp format
• [youtube] Label original auto-subs
• [youtube] Prefer UTC upload date for videos by coletdjnz
• [zaq1] Remove dead extractor by marieell
• [zee5] Support web-series by Aniruddh-J
• [zingmp3] Fix extractor by hatienl0i261299
• [zoom] Add support for screen cast by Mipsters

2022.02.04

• [youtube:search] Fix extractor by coletdjnz
• [youtube:search] Add tests
• [twitcasting] Enforce UTF-8 for POST payload by Lesmiscore
• [mediaset] Fix extractor by nixxo
• [websocket] Make syntax error in websockets module non-fatal

2022.02.03

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/78ce962
• Add option --print-to-file
• Make nested --config-locations relative to parent file
• Ensure _type is present in info.json
• Fix --compat-options list-formats
• Fix/improve InAdvancePagedList
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Handle unknown formats better
• [outtmpl] Handle -o "" better
• [outtmpl] Handle hard-coded file extension better
• [extractor] Add convinience function _yes_playlist
• [extractor] Allow non-fatal title extraction
• [extractor] Extract video inside Article json_ld
• [generic] Allow further processing of json_ld URL
• [cookies] Fix keyring selection for unsupported desktops
• [utils] Strip double spaces in clean_html by dirkf
• [aes] Add unpad_pkcs7
• [test] Fix test_youtube_playlist_noplaylist
• [docs,cleanup] Misc cleanup
• [dplay] Add extractors for site changes by Sipherdrakon
• [ertgr] Add extractors by zmousm, dirkf
• [Musicdex] Add extractors by Ashish0804
• [YandexVideoPreview] Add extractor by KiberInfinity
• [youtube] Add extractor YoutubeMusicSearchURLIE
• [archive.org] Ignore unnecessary files
• [Bilibili] Add 8k support by u-spec-png
• [bilibili] Fix extractor, make anthology title non-fatal
• [CAM4] Add thumbnail extraction by alerikaisattera
• [cctv] De-prioritize sample format
• [crunchyroll:beta] Add cookies support by tejing1
• [crunchyroll] Fix login by tejing1
• [doodstream] Fix extractor
• [fc2] Fix extraction by Lesmiscore
• [FFmpegConcat] Abort on --skip-download and download errors
• [Fujitv] Extract metadata and support premium by YuenSzeHong
• [globo] Fix extractor by Bricio
• [glomex] Simplify embed detection
• [GoogleSearch] Fix extractor
• [Instagram] Fix extraction when logged in by MinePlayersPE
• [iq.com] Add VIP support by MinePlayersPE
• [mildom] Fix extractor by lazypete365
• [MySpass] Fix video url processing by trassshhub
• [Odnoklassniki] Improve embedded players extraction by KiberInfinity
• [orf:tvthek] Lazy playlist extraction and obey --no-playlist
• [Pladform] Fix redirection to external player by KiberInfinity
• [ThisOldHouse] Improve Premium URL check by Ashish0804
• [TikTok] Iterate through app versions by MinePlayersPE
• [tumblr] Fix 403 errors and handle vimeo embeds by foghawk
• [viki] Fix "Bad request" for manifest by nyuszika7h
• [Vimm] add recording extractor by alerikaisattera
• [web.archive:youtube] Add ytarchive: prefix and misc cleanup
• [youtube:api] Do not use seek when reading HTTPError response by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix n-sig for player e06dea74
• [youtube, cleanup] Misc fixes and cleanup

2022.01.21

• Add option --concat-playlist to concat videos in a playlist
• Allow multiple and nested configuration files
• Add more post-processing stages (after_video, playlist)
• Allow --exec to be run at any post-processing stage (Deprecates --exec-before-download)
• Allow --print to be run at any post-processing stage
• Allow listing formats, thumbnails, subtitles using --print by pukkandan, Zirro
• Add fields video_autonumber, modified_date, modified_timestamp, playlist_count, channel_follower_count
• Add key requested_downloads in the root info_dict
• Write download_archive only after all formats are downloaded
• [FfmpegMetadata] Allow setting metadata of individual streams using meta<n>_ prefix
• Add option --legacy-server-connect by xtkoba
• Allow escaped , in --extractor-args
• Allow unicode characters in info.json
• Check for existing thumbnail/subtitle in final directory
• Don't treat empty containers as None in sanitize_info
• Fix -s --ignore-no-formats --force-write-archive
• Fix live title for multiple formats
• List playlist thumbnails in --list-thumbnails
• Raise error if subtitle download fails
• [cookies] Fix bug when keyring is unspecified
• [ffmpeg] Ignore unknown streams, standardize use of -map 0
• [outtmpl] Alternate form for D and fix suffix's case
• [utils] Add Sec-Fetch-Mode to std_headers
• [utils] Fix format_bytes output for Bytes by pukkandan, mdawar
• [utils] Handle ss:xxx in parse_duration
• [utils] Improve parsing for nested HTML elements by zmousm, pukkandan
• [utils] Use key None in traverse_obj to return as-is
• [extractor] Detect more subtitle codecs in MPD manifests by fstirlitz
• [extractor] Extract chapters from JSON-LD by iw0nderhow, pukkandan
• [extractor] Extract thumbnails from JSON-LD by nixxo
• [extractor] Improve url_result and related
• [generic] Improve KVS player extraction by trassshhub
• [build] Reduce dependency on third party workflows
• [extractor,cleanup] Use _search_nextjs_data, format_field
• [cleanup] Minor fixes and cleanup
• [docs] Improvements
• [test] Fix TestVerboseOutput
• [afreecatv] Add livestreams extractor by wlritchi
• [callin] Add extractor by foghawk
• [CrowdBunker] Add extractors by Ashish0804
• [daftsex] Add extractors by k3ns1n
• [digitalconcerthall] Add extractor by teridon
• [Drooble] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [EuropeanTour] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [iq.com] Add extractors by MinePlayersPE
• [KelbyOne] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [LnkIE] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [MainStreaming] Add extractor by coletdjnz
• [megatvcom] Add extractors by zmousm
• [Newsy] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [noodlemagazine] Add extractor by trassshhub
• [PokerGo] Add extractors by Ashish0804
• [Pornez] Add extractor by mozlima
• [PRX] Add Extractors by coletdjnz
• [RTNews] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [Rule34video] Add extractor by trassshhub
• [tvopengr] Add extractors by zmousm
• [Vimm] Add extractor by alerikaisattera
• [glomex] Add extractors by zmousm
• [instagram] Add story/highlight extractor by u-spec-png
• [openrec] Add movie extractor by Lesmiscore
• [rai] Add Raiplaysound extractors by nixxo, pukkandan
• [aparat] Fix extractor
• [ard] Extract subtitles by fstirlitz
• [BiliIntl] Add login by MinePlayersPE
• [CeskaTelevize] Use http for manifests
• [CTVNewsIE] Add fallback for video search by Ashish0804
• [dplay] Migrate DiscoveryPlusItaly to DiscoveryPlus by timendum
• [dplay] Re-structure DiscoveryPlus extractors
• [Dropbox] Support password protected files and more formats by zenerdi0de
• [facebook] Fix extraction from groups
• [facebook] Improve title and uploader extraction
• [facebook] Parse dash manifests
• [fox] Extract m3u8 from preview by ischmidt20
• [funk] Support origin URLs
• [gfycat] Fix uploader
• [gfycat] Support embeds by coletdjnz
• [hotstar] Add extractor args to ignore tags by Ashish0804
• [hrfernsehen] Fix ardloader extraction by CreaValix
• [instagram] Fix username extraction for stories and highlights by nyuszika7h
• [kakao] Detect geo-restriction
• [line] Remove tv.line.me by sian1468
• [mixch] Add MixchArchiveIE by Lesmiscore
• [mixcloud] Detect restrictions by llacb47
• [NBCSports] Fix extraction of platform URLs by ischmidt20
• [Nexx] Extract more metadata by MinePlayersPE
• [Nexx] Support 3q CDN by MinePlayersPE
• [pbs] de-prioritize AD formats
• [PornHub,YouTube] Refresh onion addresses by unit193
• [RedBullTV] Parse subtitles from manifest by Ashish0804
• [streamcz] Fix extractor by arkamar, pukkandan
• [Ted] Rewrite extractor by pukkandan, trassshhub
• [Theta] Fix valid URL by alerikaisattera
• [ThisOldHouseIE] Add support for premium videos by Ashish0804
• [TikTok] Fix extraction for sigi-based webpages, add API fallback by MinePlayersPE
• [TikTok] Pass cookies to formats, and misc fixes by MinePlayersPE
• [TikTok] Extract captions, user thumbnail by MinePlayersPE
• [TikTok] Change app version by MinePlayersPE, llacb47
• [TVer] Extract message for unaired live by Lesmiscore
• [twitcasting] Refactor extractor by Lesmiscore
• [twitter] Fix video in quoted tweets
• [veoh] Improve extractor by foghawk
• [vk] Capture clip URLs
• [vk] Fix VKUserVideosIE by Ashish0804
• [vk] Improve _VALID_URL by k3ns1n
• [VrtNU] Handle empty title by pgaig
• [XVideos] Check HLS formats by MinePlayersPE
• [yahoo:gyao] Improved playlist handling by hyano
• [youtube:tab] Extract more playlist metadata by coletdjnz, pukkandan
• [youtube:tab] Raise error on tab redirect by krichbanana, coletdjnz
• [youtube] Update Innertube clients by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Detect live-stream embeds
• [youtube] Do not return upload_date for playlists
• [youtube] Extract channel subscriber count by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Make invalid storyboard URL non-fatal
• [youtube] Enforce UTC, update innertube clients and tests by coletdjnz
• [zdf] Add chapter extraction by iw0nderhow
• [zee5] Add geo-bypass

2021.12.27

• Avoid recursion error when re-extracting info
• [ffmpeg] Fix position of --ppa
• [aria2c] Don't show progress when --no-progress
• [cookies] Support other keyrings by mbway
• [EmbedThumbnail] Prefer AtomicParsley over ffmpeg if available
• [generic] Fix HTTP KVS Player by git-anony-mouse
• [ThumbnailsConvertor] Fix for when there are no thumbnails
• [docs] Add examples for using TYPES: in -P/-o
• [PixivSketch] Add extractors by nao20010128nao
• [tiktok] Add music, sticker and tag IEs by MinePlayersPE
• [BiliIntl] Fix extractor by MinePlayersPE
• [CBC] Fix URL regex
• [tiktok] Fix extractor_key used in archive
• [youtube] End live-from-start properly when stream ends with 403
• [Zee5] Fix VALID_URL for tv-shows by Ashish0804

2021.12.25

• [dash,youtube] Download live from start to end by nao20010128nao, pukkandan
  • Add option --live-from-start to enable downloading live videos from start
  • Add key is_from_start in formats to identify formats (of live videos) that downloads from start
  • [dash] Create protocol http_dash_segments_generator that allows a function to be passed instead of fragments
  • [fragment] Allow multiple live dash formats to download simultaneously
  • [youtube] Implement fragment re-fetching for the live dash formats
  • [youtube] Re-extract dash manifest every 5 hours (manifest expires in 6hrs)
  • [postprocessor/ffmpeg] Add FFmpegFixupDuplicateMoovPP to fixup duplicated moov atoms
  • Known issues:
    • Ctrl+C doesn't work on Windows when downloading multiple formats
    • If video becomes private, download hangs
• [SponsorBlock] Add Filler and Highlight categories by nihil-admirari, pukkandan
  • Change --sponsorblock-cut all to --sponsorblock-cut default if you do not want filler sections to be removed
• Add field webpage_url_domain
• Add interactive format selection with -f -
• Add option --file-access-retries by ehoogeveen-medweb
• [outtmpl] Add alternate forms S, D and improve id detection
• [outtmpl] Add operator & for replacement text by PilzAdam
• [EmbedSubtitle] Disable duration check temporarily
• [extractor] Add _search_nuxt_data by nao20010128nao
• [extractor] Ignore errors in comment extraction when -i is given
• [extractor] Standardize _live_title
• [FormatSort] Prevent incorrect deprecation warning
• [generic] Extract m3u8 formats from JSON-LD
• [postprocessor/ffmpeg] Always add faststart
• [utils] Fix parsing YYYYMMDD dates in Nov/Dec by wlritchi
• [utils] Improve parse_count
• [utils] Update std_headers by kikuyan, fstirlitz
• [lazy_extractors] Fix for search IEs
• [extractor] Support default implicit graph in JSON-LD by zmousm
• Allow --no-write-thumbnail to override --write-all-thumbnail
• Fix --throttled-rate
• Fix control characters being printed to --console-title
• Fix PostProcessor hooks not registered for some PPs
• Pre-process when using --flat-playlist
• Remove known invalid thumbnails from info_dict
• Add warning when using -f best
• Use parse_duration for --wait-for-video and some minor fix
• [test/download] Add more fields
• [test/download] Ignore field webpage_url_domain by std-move
• [compat] Suppress errors in enabling VT mode
• [docs] Improve manpage format by iw0nderhow, pukkandan
• [docs,cleanup] Minor fixes and cleanup
• [cleanup] Fix some typos by unit193
• [ABC:iview] Add show extractor by pabs3
• [dropout] Add extractor by TwoThousandHedgehogs, pukkandan
• [GameJolt] Add extractors by MinePlayersPE
• [gofile] Add extractor by Jertzukka, Ashish0804
• [hse] Add extractors by cypheron, pukkandan
• [NateTV] Add NateIE and NateProgramIE by Ashish0804, Hyeeji
• [OpenCast] Add extractors by bwildenhain, C0D3D3V
• [rtve] Add RTVEAudioIE by kebianizao
• [Rutube] Add RutubeChannelIE by Ashish0804
• [skeb] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
• [soundcloud] Add related tracks extractor by Lapin0t
• [toggo] Add extractor by nyuszika7h
• [TrueID] Add extractor by MinePlayersPE
• [audiomack] Update album and song VALID_URL by abdullah-if, dirkf
• [CBC Gem] Extract 1080p formats by DavidSkrundz
• [ceskatelevize] Fetch iframe from nextJS data by mkubecek
• [crackle] Look for non-DRM formats by raleeper
• [dplay] Temporary fix for discoveryplus.com/it
• [DiscoveryPlusShowBaseIE] yield actual video id by Ashish0804
• [Facebook] Handle redirect URLs
• [fujitv] Extract 1080p from tv_android m3u8 by YuenSzeHong
• [gronkh] Support new URL pattern by Sematre
• [instagram] Expand valid URL by u-spec-png
• [Instagram] Try bypassing login wall with embed page by MinePlayersPE
• [Jamendo] Fix use of _VALID_URL_RE by jaller94
• [LBRY] Support livestreams by Ashish0804, pukkandan
• [NJPWWorld] Extract formats from m3u8 by aarubui
• [NovaEmbed] update player regex by std-move
• [npr] Make SMIL extraction non-fatal by r5d
• [ntvcojp] Extract NUXT data by nao20010128nao
• [ok.ru] add mobile fallback by nao20010128nao
• [olympics] Add uploader and cleanup by u-spec-png
• [ondemandkorea] Update jw_config regex by julien-hadleyjack
• [PlutoTV] Expand _VALID_URL
• [RaiNews] Fix extractor by nixxo
• [RCTIPlusSeries] Lazy extraction and video type selection by MinePlayersPE
• [redtube] Handle formats delivered inside a JSON by dirkf, nixxo
• [SonyLiv] Add OTP login support by Ashish0804
• [Steam] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [TikTok] Pass cookies to mobile API by MinePlayersPE
• [trovo] Fix inheritance of TrovoChannelBaseIE
• [TVer] Extract better thumbnails by YuenSzeHong
• [vimeo] Extract chapters
• [web.archive:youtube] Improve metadata extraction by coletdjnz
• [youtube:comments] Add more options for limiting number of comments extracted by coletdjnz
• [youtube:tab] Extract more metadata from feeds/channels/playlists by coletdjnz
• [youtube:tab] Extract video thumbnails from playlist by coletdjnz, pukkandan
• [youtube:tab] Ignore query when redirecting channel to playlist and cleanup of related code
• [youtube] Fix ytsearchdate
• [zdf] Support videos with different ptmd location by iw0nderhow
• [zee5] Support /episodes in URL

2021.12.01

• Add option --wait-for-video to wait for scheduled streams
• Add option --break-per-input to apply --break-on... to each input URL
• Add option --embed-info-json to embed info.json in mkv
• Add compat-option embed-metadata
• Allow using a custom format selector through API
• [AES] Add ECB mode by nao20010128nao
• [build] Fix MacOS Build
• [build] Save Git HEAD at release alongside version info
• [build] Use workflow_dispatch for release
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Fix for direct videos inside mpd manifests
• [downloader] Add colors to download progress
• [EmbedSubtitles] Slightly relax duration check and related cleanup
• [ExtractAudio] Fix conversion to wav and vorbis
• [ExtractAudio] Support alac
• [extractor] Extract average_rating from JSON-LD
• [FixupM3u8] Fixup MPEG-TS in MP4 container
• [generic] Support mpd manifests without extension by shirt
• [hls] Better FairPlay DRM detection by nyuszika7h
• [jsinterp] Fix splice to handle float (for youtube js player f1ca6900)
• [utils] Allow alignment in render_table and add tests
• [utils] Fix PagedList
• [utils] Fix error when copying LazyList
• Clarify video/audio-only formats in -F
• Ensure directory exists when checking formats
• Ensure path for link files exists by Zirro
• Ensure same config file is not loaded multiple times
• Fix postprocessor_hooks
• Fix --break-on-archive when pre-checking
• Fix --check-formats for mhtml
• Fix --load-info-json of playlists with failed entries
• Fix --trim-filename when filename has .
• Fix bug in parsing --add-header
• Fix error in report_unplayable_conflict by shirt
• Fix writing playlist infojson with --no-clean-infojson
• Validate --get-bypass-country
• [blogger] Add extractor by pabs3
• [breitbart] Add extractor by Grabien
• [CableAV] Add extractor by j54vc1bk
• [CanalAlpha] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [CozyTV] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [CPTwentyFour] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [DiscoveryPlus] Add DiscoveryPlusItalyShowIE by Ashish0804
• [ESPNCricInfo] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [LinkedIn] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [mixch] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
• [nebula] Add NebulaCollectionIE and rewrite extractor by hheimbuerger
• [OneFootball] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [peer.tv] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [radiozet] Add extractor by 0xA7404A (Aurora)
• [redgifs] Add extractor by chio0hai
• [RedGifs] Add Search and User extractors by Deer-Spangle
• [rtrfm] Add extractor by pabs3
• [Streamff] Add extractor by cntrl-s
• [Stripchat] Add extractor by zulaport
• [Aljazeera] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [AmazonStoreIE] Fix regex to not match vdp urls by Ashish0804
• [ARDBetaMediathek] Handle new URLs
• [bbc] Get all available formats by nyuszika7h
• [Bilibili] Fix title extraction by u-spec-png
• [CBC Gem] Fix for shows that don't have all seasons by makeworld-the-better-one
• [curiositystream] Add more metadata
• [CuriosityStream] Fix series
• [DiscoveryPlus] Rewrite extractors by Ashish0804, pukkandan
• [HotStar] Set language field from tags by Ashish0804
• [instagram, cleanup] Refactor extractors
• [Instagram] Display more login errors by MinePlayersPE
• [itv] Fix extractor by staubichsauger, pukkandan
• [mediaklikk] Expand valid URL
• [MTV] Improve mgid extraction by Sipherdrakon, kikuyan
• [nexx] Better error message for unsupported format
• [NovaEmbed] Fix extractor by pukkandan, std-move
• [PatreonUser] Do not capture RSS URLs
• [Reddit] Add support for 1080p videos by xenova
• [RoosterTeethSeries] Fix for multiple pages by MinePlayersPE
• [sbs] Fix for movies and livestreams
• [Senate.gov] Add SenateGovIE and fix SenateISVPIE by Grabien, pukkandan
• [soundcloud:search] Fix pagination
• [tiktok:user] Set webpage_url correctly
• [Tokentube] Fix description by u-spec-png
• [trovo] Fix extractor by nyuszika7h
• [tv2] Expand valid URL
• [Tvplayhome] Fix extractor by pukkandan, 18928172992817182
• [Twitch:vod] Add chapters by mpeter50
• [twitch:vod] Extract live status by DEvmIb
• [VidLii] Add 720p support by mrpapersonic
• [vimeo] Add fallback for config URL
• [vimeo] Sort http formats higher
• [WDR] Expand valid URL
• [willow] Add extractor by aarubui
• [xvideos] Detect embed URLs by 4a1e2y5
• [xvideos] Fix extractor by Yakabuff
• [youtube, cleanup] Reorganize Tab and Search extractor inheritances
• [youtube:search_url] Add playlist/channel support
• [youtube] Add default player client by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Add storyboard formats
• [youtube] Decrypt n-sig for URLs with ratebypass
• [youtube] Minor improvement to format sorting
• [cleanup] Add deprecation warnings
• [cleanup] Refactor JSInterpreter._seperate
• [Cleanup] Remove some unnecessary groups in regexes by Ashish0804
• [cleanup] Misc cleanup

2021.11.10.1

• Temporarily disable MacOS Build

2021.11.10

• [youtube] Fix throttling by decrypting n-sig
• Merging extractors from haruhi-dl by selfisekai
  • [extractor] Add _search_nextjs_data
  • [tvp] Fix extractors
  • [tvp] Add TVPStreamIE
  • [wppilot] Add extractors
  • [polskieradio] Add extractors
  • [radiokapital] Add extractors
  • [polsatgo] Add extractor by selfisekai, sdomi
• Separate --check-all-formats from --check-formats
• Approximate filesize from bitrate
• Don't create console in windows_enable_vt_mode
• Fix bug in --load-infojson of playlists
• [minicurses] Add colors to -F and standardize color-printing code
• [outtmpl] Add type link for internet shortcut files
• [outtmpl] Add alternate forms for q and j
• [outtmpl] Do not traverse None
• [fragment] Fix progress display in fragmented downloads
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Fix vtt download with ffmpeg
• [ffmpeg] Detect presence of setts and libavformat version
• [ExtractAudio] Rescale --audio-quality correctly by CrypticSignal, pukkandan
• [ExtractAudio] Use libfdk_aac if available by CrypticSignal
• [FormatSort] eac3 is better than ac3
• [FormatSort] Fix some fields' defaults
• [generic] Detect more json_ld
• [generic] parse jwplayer with only the json URL
• [extractor] Add keyword automatically to SearchIE descriptions
• [extractor] Fix some errors being converted to ExtractorError
• [utils] Add join_nonempty
• [utils] Add jwt_decode_hs256 by Ashish0804
• [utils] Create DownloadCancelled exception
• [utils] Parse vp09 as vp9
• [utils] Sanitize URL when determining protocol
• [test/download] Fallback test to bv
• [docs] Minor documentation improvements
• [cleanup] Improvements to error and debug messages
• [cleanup] Minor fixes and cleanup
• [3speak] Add extractors by Ashish0804
• [AmazonStore] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [Gab] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [mediaset] Add playlist support by nixxo
• [MLSScoccer] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [N1] Add support for nova.rs by u-spec-png
• [PlanetMarathi] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [RaiplayRadio] Add extractors by frafra
• [roosterteeth] Add series extractor
• [sky] Add SkyNewsStoryIE by ajj8
• [youtube] Fix sorting for some videos
• [youtube] Populate thumbnail with the best "known" thumbnail
• [youtube] Refactor itag processing
• [youtube] Remove unnecessary no-playlist warning
• [youtube:tab] Add Invidious list for playlists/channels by rhendric
• [Bilibili:comments] Fix infinite loop by u-spec-png
• [ceskatelevize] Fix extractor by flashdagger
• [Coub] Fix media format identification by wlritchi
• [crunchyroll] Add extractor-args language and hardsub
• [DiscoveryPlus] Allow language codes in URL
• [imdb] Fix thumbnail by ozburo
• [instagram] Add IOS URL support by u-spec-png
• [instagram] Improve login code by u-spec-png
• [Instagram] Improve metadata extraction by u-spec-png
• [iPrima] Fix extractor by stanoarn
• [itv] Add support for ITV News by ajj8
• [la7] Fix extractor by nixxo
• [linkedin] Don't login multiple times
• [mtv] Fix some videos by Sipherdrakon
• [Newgrounds] Fix description by u-spec-png
• [Nrk] Minor fixes by fractalf
• [Olympics] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [piksel] Fix sorting
• [twitter] Do not sort by codec
• [viewlift] Add cookie-based login and series support by Ashish0804, pukkandan
• [vimeo] Detect source extension and misc cleanup by flashdagger
• [vimeo] Fix ondemand videos and direct URLs with hash
• [vk] Fix login and add subtitles by kaz-us
• [VLive] Add upload_date and thumbnail by Ashish0804
• [VRT] Fix login by pgaig
• [Vupload] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [wakanim] Add support for MPD manifests by nyuszika7h
• [wakanim] Detect geo-restriction by nyuszika7h
• [ZenYandex] Fix extractor by u-spec-png

2021.10.22

• [build] Improvements
  • Build standalone MacOS packages by smplayer-dev
  • Release windows exe built with py2exe
  • Enable lazy-extractors in releases.
    • Set env var YTDLP_NO_LAZY_EXTRACTORS to forcefully disable this (experimental)
  • Clean up error reporting in update
  • Refactor pyinst.py, misc cleanup and improve docs
• [docs] Migrate issues to use forms by Ashish0804
• [downloader] Fix slow progress hooks
  • This was causing HLS/DASH downloads to be extremely slow in some situations
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Improve simultaneous download and merge
• [EmbedMetadata] Allow overwriting all default metadata with meta_default key
• [ModifyChapters] Add ability for --remove-chapters to remove sections by timestamp
• [utils] Allow duration strings in --match-filter
• Add HDR information to formats
• Add negative option --no-batch-file by Zirro
• Calculate more fields for merged formats
• Do not verify thumbnail URLs unless --check-formats is specified
• Don't create console for subprocesses on Windows
• Fix --restrict-filename when used with default template
• Fix check_formats output being written to stdout when -qv
• Fix bug in storyboards
• Fix conflict b/w id and ext in format selection
• Fix verbose head not showing custom configs
• Load archive only after printing verbose head
• Make duration_string and resolution available in --match-filter
• Re-implement deprecated option --id
• Reduce default --socket-timeout
• Write verbose header to logger
• [outtmpl] Fix bug in expanding environment variables
• [cookies] Local State should be opened as utf-8
• [extractor,utils] Detect more codecs/mimetypes
• [extractor] Detect EXT-X-KEY Apple FairPlay
• [utils] Use importlib to load plugins by sulyi
• [http] Retry on socket timeout and show the last encountered error
• [fragment] Print error message when skipping fragment
• [aria2c] Fix --skip-unavailable-fragment
• [SponsorBlock] Obey extractor-retries and sleep-requests
• [Merger] Do not add aac_adtstoasc to non-hls audio
• [ModifyChapters] Do not mutate original chapters by nihil-admirari
• [devscripts/run_tests] Use markers to filter tests by sulyi
• [7plus] Add cookie based authentication by nyuszika7h
• [AdobePass] Fix RCN MSO by jfogelman
• [CBC] Fix Gem livestream by makeworld-the-better-one
• [CBC] Support CBC Gem member content by makeworld-the-better-one
• [crunchyroll] Add season to flat-playlist
• [crunchyroll] Add support for beta.crunchyroll URLs and fix series URLs with language code
• [EUScreen] Add Extractor by Ashish0804
• [Gronkh] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [hidive] Fix typo
• [Hotstar] Mention Dynamic Range in format_id by Ashish0804
• [Hotstar] Raise appropriate error for DRM
• [instagram] Add login by u-spec-png
• [instagram] Show appropriate error when login is needed
• [microsoftstream] Add extractor by damianoamatruda, nixklai
• [on24] Add extractor by damianoamatruda
• [patreon] Fix vimeo player regex by zenerdi0de
• [SkyNewsAU] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [tagesschau] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [tbs] Add tbs live streams by llacb47
• [tiktok] Fix typo and update tests
• [trovo] Support channel clips and VODs by Ashish0804
• [Viafree] Add support for Finland by 18928172992817182
• [vimeo] Fix embedded player.vimeo
• [vlive:channel] Fix extraction by kikuyan, pukkandan
• [youtube] Add auto-translated subtitles
• [youtube] Expose different formats with same itag
• [youtube:comments] Fix for new layout by coletdjnz
• [cleanup] Cleanup bilibili code by pukkandan, u-spec-png
• [cleanup] Remove broken youtube login code
• [cleanup] Standardize timestamp formatting code
• [cleanup] Generalize getcomments implementation for extractors
• [cleanup] Simplify search extractors code
• [cleanup] misc

2021.10.10

• [downloader/ffmpeg] Fix bug in initializing FFmpegPostProcessor
• [minicurses] Fix when printing to file
• [downloader] Fix throttledratelimit
• [francetv] Fix extractor by fstirlitz, sarnoud
• [NovaPlay] Add extractor by Bojidarist
• [ffmpeg] Revert "Set max probesize" - No longer needed
• [docs] Remove incorrect dependency on VC++10
• [build] Allow to release without changelog

2021.10.09

• Improved progress reporting
  • Separate --console-title and --no-progress
  • Add option --progress to show progress-bar even in quiet mode
  • Fix and refactor minicurses and use it for all progress reporting
  • Standardize use of terminal sequences and enable color support for windows 10
  • Add option --progress-template to customize progress-bar and console-title
  • Add postprocessor hooks and progress reporting
• [postprocessor] Add plugin support with option --use-postprocessor
• [extractor] Extract storyboards from SMIL manifests by fstirlitz
• [outtmpl] Alternate form of format type l for \n delimited list
• [outtmpl] Format type U for unicode normalization
• [outtmpl] Allow empty output template to skip a type of file
• Merge webm formats into mkv if thumbnails are to be embedded
• [adobepass] Add RCN as MSO by jfogelman
• [ciscowebex] Add extractor by damianoamatruda
• [Gettr] Add extractor by i6t
• [GoPro] Add extractor by i6t
• [N1] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [Theta] Add video extractor by alerikaisattera
• [Veo] Add extractor by i6t
• [Vupload] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [bbc] Extract better quality videos by ajj8
• [Bilibili] Add subtitle converter by u-spec-png
• [CBC] Cleanup tests by makeworld-the-better-one
• [Douyin] Rewrite extractor by MinePlayersPE
• [Funimation] Fix for /v/ urls by pukkandan, Jules-A
• [Funimation] Sort formats according to the relevant extractor-args
• [Hidive] Fix duplicate and incorrect formats
• [HotStarSeries] Fix cookies by Ashish0804
• [LinkedInLearning] Add subtitles by Ashish0804
• [Mediaite] Relax valid url by coletdjnz
• [Newgrounds] Add age_limit and fix duration by u-spec-png
• [Newgrounds] Fix view count on songs by u-spec-png
• [parliamentlive.tv] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [PolskieRadio] Fix extractors by jakubadamw, u-spec-png
• [reddit] Add embedded url by u-spec-png
• [reddit] Fix 429 by generating a random reddit_session by AjaxGb
• [Rumble] Add RumbleChannelIE by Ashish0804
• [soundcloud:playlist] Detect last page correctly
• [SovietsCloset] Add duration from m3u8 by ChillingPepper
• [Streamable] Add codecs by u-spec-png
• [vidme] Remove extractor by alerikaisattera
• [youtube:tab] Fallback to API when webpage fails to download by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix non-fatal errors in fetching player
• Fix --flat-playlist when neither IE nor id is known
• Fix -f mp4 behaving differently from youtube-dl
• Workaround for bug in ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs
• [aes] Improve performance slightly by sulyi
• [cookies] Fix keyring fallback by mbway
• [embedsubtitle] Fix error when duration is unknown
• [ffmpeg] Fix error when subtitle file is missing
• [ffmpeg] Set max probesize to workaround AAC HLS stream issues by shirt
• [FixupM3u8] Remove redundant run if merged is needed
• [hls] Fix decryption issues by shirt, pukkandan
• [http] Respect user-provided chunk size over extractor's
• [utils] Let traverse_obj accept functions as keys
• [docs] Add note about our custom ffmpeg builds
• [docs] Write embedding and contributing documentation by pukkandan, timethrow
• [update] Check for new version even if not updateable
• [build] Add more files to the tarball
• [build] Allow building with py2exe (and misc fixes)
• [build] Use pycryptodomex by shirt, pukkandan
• [cleanup] Some minor refactoring, improve docs and misc cleanup

2021.09.25

• Add new option --netrc-location
• [outtmpl] Allow alternate fields using ,
• [outtmpl] Add format type B to treat the value as bytes (eg: to limit the filename to a certain number of bytes)
• Separate the options --ignore-errors and --no-abort-on-error
• Basic framework for simultaneous download of multiple formats by nao20010128nao
• [17live] Add 17.live extractor by nao20010128nao
• [bilibili] Add BiliIntlIE and BiliIntlSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [CAM4] Add extractor by alerikaisattera
• [Chingari] Add extractors by Ashish0804
• [CGTN] Add extractor by chao813
• [damtomo] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
• [gotostage] Add extractor by poschi3
• [Koo] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [Mediaite] Add Extractor by Ashish0804
• [Mediaklikk] Add Extractor by tmarki, mrx23dot, coletdjnz
• [MuseScore] Add Extractor by Ashish0804
• [Newgrounds] Add NewgroundsUserIE and improve extractor by u-spec-png
• [nzherald] Add NZHeraldIE by coletdjnz
• [Olympics] Add replay extractor by Ashish0804
• [Peertube] Add channel and playlist extractors by u-spec-png
• [radlive] Add extractor by nyuszika7h
• [SovietsCloset] Add extractor by ChillingPepper
• [Streamanity] Add Extractor by alerikaisattera
• [Theta] Add extractor by alerikaisattera
• [Yandex] Add ZenYandexIE and ZenYandexChannelIE by Ashish0804
• [9Now] handle episodes of series by dalanmiller
• [AnimalPlanet] Fix extractor by Sipherdrakon
• [Arte] Improve description extraction by renalid
• [atv.at] Use jwt for API by NeroBurner
• [brightcove] Extract subtitles from manifests
• [CBC] Fix CBC Gem extractors by makeworld-the-better-one
• [cbs] Report appropriate error for DRM
• [comedycentral] Support collection-playlist by nixxo
• [DIYNetwork] Support new format by Sipherdrakon
• [downloader/niconico] Pass custom headers by nao20010128nao
• [dw] Fix extractor
• [Fancode] Fix live streams by zenerdi0de
• [funimation] Fix for locations outside US by Jules-A, pukkandan
• [globo] Fix GloboIE by Ashish0804
• [HiDive] Fix extractor by Ashish0804
• [Hotstar] Add referer for subs by Ashish0804
• [itv] Fix extractor, add subtitles and thumbnails by coletdjnz, sleaux-meaux, Vangelis66
• [lbry] Show error message from API response
• [Mxplayer] Use mobile API by Ashish0804
• [NDR] Rewrite NDRIE by Ashish0804
• [Nuvid] Fix extractor by u-spec-png
• [Oreilly] Handle new web url by MKSherbini
• [pbs] Fix subtitle extraction by coletdjnz, gesa, raphaeldore
• [peertube] Update instances by u-spec-png
• [plutotv] Fix extractor for URLs with /en
• [reddit] Workaround for 429 by redirecting to old.reddit.com
• [redtube] Fix exts
• [soundcloud] Make playlist extraction lazy
• [soundcloud] Retry playlist pages on 502 error and update _CLIENT_ID
• [southpark] Fix SouthParkDE by coletdjnz
• [SovietsCloset] Fix playlists for games with only named categories by ConquerorDopy
• [SpankBang] Fix uploader by f4pp3rk1ng, coletdjnz
• [tiktok] Use API to fetch higher quality video by MinePlayersPE, llacb47
• [TikTokUser] Fix extractor using mobile API by MinePlayersPE, llacb47
• [videa] Fix some extraction errors by nyuszika7h
• [VrtNU] Handle login errors by llacb47
• [vrv] Don't raise error when thumbnails are missing
• [youtube] Cleanup authentication code by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix --mark-watched with --cookies-from-browser
• [youtube] Improvements to JS player extraction and add extractor-args to skip it by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Retry on 'Unknown Error' by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Return full URL instead of just ID
• [youtube] Warn when trying to download clips
• [zdf] Improve format sorting
• [zype] Extract subtitles from the m3u8 manifest by fstirlitz
• Allow --force-write-archive to work with --flat-playlist
• Download subtitles in order of --sub-langs
• Allow 0 in --playlist-items
• Handle more playlist errors with -i
• Fix --no-get-comments
• Fix extra_info being reused across runs
• Fix compat options no-direct-merge and playlist-index
• Dump files should obey --trim-filename by sulyi
• [aes] Add aes_gcm_decrypt_and_verify by sulyi, pukkandan
• [aria2c] Fix IV for some AES-128 streams by shirt
• [compat] Don't ignore HOME (if set) on windows
• [cookies] Make browser names case insensitive
• [cookies] Print warning for cookie decoding error only once
• [extractor] Fix root-relative URLs in MPD by DigitalDJ
• [ffmpeg] Add aac_adtstoasc when merging if needed
• [fragment,aria2c] Generalize and refactor some code
• [fragment] Avoid repeated request for AES key
• [fragment] Fix range header when using -N and media sequence by shirt
• [hls,aes] Fallback to native implementation for AES-CBC and detect Cryptodome in addition to Crypto
• [hls] Byterange + AES128 is supported by native downloader
• [ModifyChapters] Improve sponsor chapter merge algorithm by nihil-admirari
• [ModifyChapters] Minor fixes
• [WebVTT] Adjust parser to accommodate PBS subtitles
• [utils] Improve extract_timezone by dirkf
• [options] Fix --no-config and refactor reading of config files
• [options] Strip spaces and ignore empty entries in list-like switches
• [test/cookies] Improve logging
• [build] Automate more of the release process by animelover1984, pukkandan
• [build] Fix sha256 by nihil-admirari
• [build] Bring back brew taps by nao20010128nao
• [build] Provide --onedir zip for windows by pukkandan
• [cleanup,docs] Add deprecation warning in docs for some counter intuitive behaviour
• [cleanup] Fix line endings for nebula.py by glenn-slayden
• [cleanup] Improve make clean-test by sulyi
• [cleanup] Misc

2021.09.02

• Native SponsorBlock implementation by nihil-admirari, pukkandan
  • --sponsorblock-remove CATS removes specified chapters from file
  • --sponsorblock-mark CATS marks the specified sponsor sections as chapters
  • --sponsorblock-chapter-title TMPL to specify sponsor chapter template
  • --sponsorblock-api URL to use a different API
  • No re-encoding is done unless --force-keyframes-at-cuts is used
  • The fetched sponsor sections are written to the infojson
  • Deprecates: --sponskrub, --no-sponskrub, --sponskrub-cut, --no-sponskrub-cut, --sponskrub-force, --no-sponskrub-force, --sponskrub-location, --sponskrub-args
• Split --embed-chapters from --embed-metadata (it still implies the former by default)
• Add option --remove-chapters to remove arbitrary chapters by nihil-admirari, pukkandan
• Add option --force-keyframes-at-cuts for more accurate cuts when removing and splitting chapters by nihil-admirari
• Let --match-filter reject entries early
  • Makes redundant: --match-title, --reject-title, --min-views, --max-views
• [lazy_extractor] Improvements (It now passes all tests)
  • Bugfix for when plugin directory doesn't exist by kidonng
  • Create instance only after pre-checking archive
  • Import actual class if an attribute is accessed
  • Fix suitable and add flake8 test
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Experimental support for DASH manifests (including live)
  • Your ffmpeg must have this patch applied for YouTube DASH to work
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Allow passing custom arguments before -i
• [BannedVideo] Add extractor by smege1001, blackjack4494, pukkandan
• [bilibili] Add category extractor by animelover1984
• [Epicon] Add extractors by Ashish0804
• [filmmodu] Add extractor by mzbaulhaque
• [GabTV] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [Hungama] Fix HungamaSongIE and add HungamaAlbumPlaylistIE by Ashish0804
• [ManotoTV] Add new extractors by tandy1000
• [Niconico] Add Search extractors by animelover1984, pukkandan
• [Patreon] Add PatreonUserIE by zenerdi0de
• [peloton] Add extractor by IONECarter, capntrips, pukkandan
• [ProjectVeritas] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [radiko] Add extractors by nao20010128nao
• [StarTV] Add extractor for startv.com.tr by mrfade, coletdjnz
• [tiktok] Add TikTokUserIE by Ashish0804, pukkandan
• [Tokentube] Add extractor by u-spec-png
• [TV2Hu] Fix TV2HuIE and add TV2HuSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [voicy] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
• [adobepass] Fix Verizon SAML login by nyuszika7h, ParadoxGBB
• [afreecatv] Fix adult VODs by wlritchi
• [afreecatv] Tolerate failure to parse date string by wlritchi
• [aljazeera] Fix extractor by MinePlayersPE
• [ATV.at] Fix extractor for ATV.at by NeroBurner, coletdjnz
• [bitchute] Fix test by mahanstreamer
• [camtube] Remove obsolete extractor by alerikaisattera
• [CDA] Add more formats by u-spec-png
• [eroprofile] Fix page skipping in albums by jhwgh1968
• [facebook] Fix format sorting
• [facebook] Fix metadata extraction by kikuyan
• [facebook] Update onion URL by Derkades
• [HearThisAtIE] Fix extractor by Ashish0804
• [instagram] Add referrer to prevent throttling by u-spec-png, kikuyan
• [iwara.tv] Extract more metadata by BunnyHelp
• [iwara] Add thumbnail by i6t
• [kakao] Fix extractor
• [mediaset] Fix extraction for some videos by nyuszika7h
• [Motherless] Fix extractor by coletdjnz
• [Nova] fix extractor by std-move
• [ParamountPlus] Fix geo verification by shirt
• [peertube] handle new video URL format by Chocobozzz
• [pornhub] Separate and fix playlist extractor by mzbaulhaque
• [reddit] Fix for quarantined subreddits by ouwou
• [ShemarooMe] Fix extractor by Ashish0804
• [soundcloud] Refetch client_id on 403
• [tiktok] Fix metadata extraction
• [TV2] Fix extractor by Ashish0804
• [tv5mondeplus] Fix extractor by korli
• [VH1,TVLand] Fix extractors by Sipherdrakon
• [Viafree] Fix extractor and extract subtitles by coletdjnz
• [XHamster] Extract uploader_id by octotherp
• [youtube] Add shorts to _VALID_URL
• [youtube] Add av01 itags to known formats list by blackjack4494
• [youtube] Extract error messages from HTTPError response by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix subtitle names
• [youtube] Prefer audio stream that YouTube considers default
• [youtube] Remove annotations and deprecate --write-annotations by coletdjnz
• [Zee5] Fix extractor and add subtitles by Ashish0804
• [aria2c] Obey --rate-limit
• [EmbedSubtitle] Continue even if some files are missing
• [extractor] Better error message for DRM
• [extractor] Common function _match_valid_url
• [extractor] Show video id in error messages if possible
• [FormatSort] Remove priority of lang
• [options] Add _set_from_options_callback
• [SubtitleConvertor] Fix bug during subtitle conversion
• [utils] Add parse_qs
• [webvtt] Fix timestamp overflow adjustment by fstirlitz
• Bugfix for --replace-in-metadata
• Don't try to merge with final extension
• Fix --force-overwrites when using -k
• Fix --no-prefer-free-formats by CeruleanSky
• Fix -F for extractors that directly return url
• Fix -J when there are failed videos
• Fix extra_info being reused across runs
• Fix playlist_index not obeying playlist_start and add tests
• Fix resuming of single formats when using --no-part
• Revert erroneous use of the Content-Length header by fstirlitz
• Use os.replace where applicable by; paulwrubel
• [build] Add homebrew taps yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp by nao20010128nao
• [build] Fix bug in making yt-dlp.tar.gz
• [docs] Fix some typos by pukkandan, zootedb0t
• [cleanup] Replace improper use of tab in trovo by glenn-slayden

2021.08.10

• Add option --replace-in-metadata
• Add option --no-simulate to not simulate even when --print or --list... are used - Deprecates --print-json
• Allow entire infodict to be printed using %()s - makes --dump-json redundant
• Allow multiple --exec and --exec-before-download
• Add regex to --match-filter
• Add all format filtering operators also to --match-filter by max-te
• Add compat-option no-keep-subs
• [adobepass] Add MSO Cablevision by Jessecar96
• [BandCamp] Add BandcampMusicIE by Ashish0804
• [blackboardcollaborate] Add new extractor by mzbaulhaque
• [eroprofile] Add album downloader by jhwgh1968
• [mirrativ] Add extractors by nao20010128nao
• [openrec] Add extractors by nao20010128nao
• [nbcolympics:stream] Fix extractor by nchilada, pukkandan
• [nbcolympics] Update extractor for 2020 olympics by wesnm
• [paramountplus] Separate extractor and fix some titles by shirt, pukkandan
• [RCTIPlus] Support events and TV by MinePlayersPE
• [Newgrounds] Improve extractor and fix playlist by u-spec-png
• [aenetworks] Update _THEPLATFORM_KEY and _THEPLATFORM_SECRET by wesnm
• [crunchyroll] Fix thumbnail by funniray
• [HotStar] Use API for metadata and extract subtitles by Ashish0804
• [instagram] Fix comments extraction by u-spec-png
• [peertube] Fix videos without description by u-spec-png
• [twitch:clips] Extract display_id by dirkf
• [viki] Print error message from API request
• [Vine] Remove invalid formats by u-spec-png
• [VrtNU] Fix XSRF token by pgaig
• [vrv] Fix thumbnail extraction by funniray
• [youtube] Add extractor-arg include-live-dash to show live dash formats
• [youtube] Improve signature function detection by PSlava
• [youtube] Raise appropriate error when API pages can't be downloaded
• Ensure _write_ytdl_file closes file handle on error
• Fix --compat-options filename by stdedos
• Fix issues with infodict sanitization
• Fix resuming when using --no-part
• Fix wrong extension for intermediate files
• Handle BrokenPipeError by kikuyan
• Show libraries present in verbose head
• [extractor] Detect sttp as subtitles in MPD by fstirlitz
• [extractor] Reset non-repeating warnings per video
• [ffmpeg] Fix streaming mp4 to stdout
• [ffpmeg] Allow --ffmpeg-location to be a file with different name
• [utils] Fix InAdvancePagedList.__getitem__
• [utils] Fix traverse_obj depth when is_user_input
• [webvtt] Merge daisy-chained duplicate cues by fstirlitz
• [build] Use custom build of pyinstaller by shirt
• [tests:download] Add batch testing for extractors (test_YourExtractor_all)
• [docs] Document which fields --add-metadata adds to the file
• [docs] Fix some mistakes and improve doc
• [cleanup] Misc code cleanup

2021.08.02

• Add logo, banner and donate links
• [outtmpl] Expand and escape environment variables
• [outtmpl] Add format types j (json), l (comma delimited list), q (quoted for terminal)
• [downloader] Allow streaming some unmerged formats to stdout using ffmpeg
• [youtube] Age-gate bypass
  • Add agegate clients by pukkandan, MinePlayersPE
  • Add thirdParty to agegate clients to bypass more videos
  • Simplify client definitions, expose embedded clients
  • Improve age-gate detection by coletdjnz
  • Fix default global API key by coletdjnz
  • Add creator clients for age-gate bypass using unverified accounts by zerodytrash, coletdjnz, pukkandan
• [adobepass] Add MSO Sling TV by wesnm
• [CBS] Add ParamountPlusSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [dplay] Add ScienceChannelIE by Sipherdrakon
• [UtreonIE] Add extractor by Ashish0804
• [youtube] Add mweb client by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Add player_client=all
• [youtube] Force hl=en for comments by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix format sorting when using alternate clients
• [youtube] Misc cleanup by pukkandan, coletdjnz
• [youtube] Extract SAPISID only once
• [CBS] Add fallback by llacb47, pukkandan
• [Hotstar] Support cookies by Ashish0804
• [HotStarSeriesIE] Fix regex by Ashish0804
• [bilibili] Improve _VALID_URL
• [mediaset] Fix extraction by nixxo
• [Mxplayer] Add h265 formats by Ashish0804
• [RCTIPlus] Remove PhantomJS dependency by MinePlayersPE
• [tenplay] Add MA15+ age limit by pento
• [vidio] Fix login error detection by MinePlayersPE
• [vimeo] Better extraction of original file by Ashish0804
• [generic] Support KVS player (replaces ThisVidIE) by rigstot
• Add compat-option no-clean-infojson
• Remove asr appearing twice in -F
• Set home: as the default key for -P
• [utils] Fix slicing of reversed LazyList
• [FormatSort] Fix bug for audio with unknown codec
• [test:download] Support testing with ignore_no_formats_error
• [cleanup] Refactor some code

2021.07.24

• [youtube:tab] Extract video duration early
• [downloader] Pass info_dict to progress_hooks
• [youtube] Fix age-gated videos for API clients when cookies are supplied by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Disable get_video_info age-gate workaround - This endpoint seems to be completely dead
• [youtube] Try all clients even if age-gated
• [youtube] Fix subtitles only being extracted from the first client
• [youtube] Simplify _get_text
• [cookies] bugfix for microsoft edge on macOS
• [cookies] Handle sqlite ImportError gracefully by mbway
• [cookies] Handle errors when importing keyring

2021.07.21

• Add option --cookies-from-browser to load cookies from a browser by mbway
  • Usage: --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE_NAME_OR_PATH]
  • Also added --no-cookies-from-browser
  • To decrypt chromium cookies, keyring is needed for UNIX and pycryptodome for Windows
• Add option --exec-before-download
• Add field live_status
• [FFmpegMetadata] Add language of each stream and some refactoring
• [douyin] Add extractor by pukkandan, pyx
• [pornflip] Add extractor by mzbaulhaque
• [youtube] Extract data from multiple clients by pukkandan, coletdjnz
  • player_client now accepts multiple clients
  • Default player_client = android,web
    • This uses twice as many requests, but avoids throttling for most videos while also not losing any formats
  • Music clients can be specifically requested and is enabled by default if music.youtube.com
  • Added player_client=ios (Known issue: formats from ios are not sorted correctly)
  • Add age-gate bypass for android and ios clients
• [youtube] Extract more thumbnails
  • The thumbnail URLs are hard-coded and their actual existence is tested lazily
  • Added option --no-check-formats to not test them
• [youtube] Misc fixes
  • Improve extraction of livestream metadata by pukkandan, krichbanana
  • Hide live dash formats since they can't be downloaded anyway
  • Fix authentication when using multiple accounts by coletdjnz
  • Fix controversial videos when requested via API by coletdjnz
  • Fix session index extraction and headers for non-web player clients by coletdjnz
  • Make --extractor-retries work for more errors
  • Fix sorting of 3gp format
  • Sanity check chapters (and refactor related code)
  • Make parse_time_text and _extract_chapters non-fatal
  • Misc cleanup and bug fixes by coletdjnz
• [youtube:tab] Fix channels tab
• [youtube:tab] Extract playlist availability by coletdjnz
• [youtube:comments] Move comment extraction to new API by coletdjnz
  • Adds extractor-args comment_sort (top/new), max_comments, max_comment_depth
• [youtube:comments] Fix is_favorited, improve like_count parsing by coletdjnz
• [BravoTV] Improve metadata extraction by kevinoconnor7
• [crunchyroll:playlist] Force http
• [yahoo:gyao:player] Relax _VALID_URL by nao20010128nao
• [nebula] Authentication via tokens from cookie jar by hheimbuerger, TpmKranz
• [RTP] Fix extraction and add subtitles by fstirlitz
• [viki] Rewrite extractors and add extractor-arg video_types to vikichannel by zackmark29, pukkandan
• [vlive] Extract thumbnail directly in addition to the one from Naver
• [generic] Extract previously missed subtitles by fstirlitz
• [generic] Extract everything in the SMIL manifest and detect discarded subtitles by fstirlitz
• [embedthumbnail] Fix _get_thumbnail_resolution
• [metadatafromfield] Do not detect numbers as field names
• Fix selectors all, mergeall and add tests
• Errors in playlist extraction should obey --ignore-errors
• Fix bug where original_url was not propagated when _type=url
• Revert "Merge webm formats into mkv if thumbnails are to be embedded (#173)"
  • This was wrongly checking for write_thumbnail
• Improve extractor_args parsing
• Rename NOTE in -F to MORE INFO since it's often confused to be the same as format_note
• Add only_once param for write_debug and report_warning
• [extractor] Allow extracting multiple groups in _search_regex by fstirlitz
• [utils] Improve traverse_obj
• [utils] Add variadic
• [utils] Improve js_to_json comment regex by fstirlitz
• [webtt] Fix timestamps
• [compat] Remove unnecessary code
• [docs] fix default of multistreams

2021.07.07

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/a803582
• Add --extractor-args to pass some extractor-specific arguments. See readme
  • Add extractor option skip for youtube. Eg: --extractor-args youtube:skip=hls,dash
  • Deprecates --youtube-skip-dash-manifest, --youtube-skip-hls-manifest, --youtube-include-dash-manifest, --youtube-include-hls-manifest
• Allow --list... options to work with --print, --quiet and other --list... options
• [youtube] Use player API for additional video extraction requests by coletdjnz
  • Fixes youtube premium music (format 141) extraction
  • Adds extractor option player_client = web/android
    • --extractor-args youtube:player_client=android works around the throttling for the time-being
  • Adds extractor option player_skip=config
  • Adds age-gate fallback using embedded client
• [youtube] Choose correct Live chat API for upcoming streams by krichbanana
• [youtube] Fix subtitle names for age-gated videos
• [youtube:comments] Fix error handling and add itct to params by coletdjnz
• [youtube_live_chat] Fix download with cookies by siikamiika
• [youtube_live_chat] use clickTrackingParams by siikamiika
• [Funimation] Rewrite extractor
  • Add FunimationShowIE by Mevious
  • Treat the different versions of an episode as different formats of a single video
    • This changes the video id and will break break existing archives
    • Compat option seperate-video-versions to fall back to old behavior including using the old video ids
  • Support direct /player/ URL
  • Extractor options language and version to pre-select them during extraction
    • These options may be removed in the future if we can extract all formats without additional network requests
    • Do not rely on these for format selection and use -f filters instead
• [AdobePass] Add Spectrum MSO by kevinoconnor7, ohmybahgosh
• [facebook] Extract description and fix title
• [fancode] Fix extraction, support live and allow login with refresh token by zenerdi0de
• [plutotv] Improve _VALID_URL
• [RCTIPlus] Add extractor by MinePlayersPE
• [Soundcloud] Allow login using oauth token by blackjack4494
• [TBS] Support livestreams by llacb47
• [videa] Fix extraction by nyuszika7h
• [yahoo] Fix extraction by llacb47, pukkandan
• Process videos when using --ignore-no-formats-error by krichbanana
• Fix --throttled-rate when using --load-info-json
• Fix --flat-playlist when entry has no ie_key
• Fix check_formats catching ExtractorError instead of DownloadError
• Fix deprecated option --list-formats-old
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Fix --ppa when using simultaneous download
• [extractor] Prevent unnecessary download of hls manifests and refactor hls_split_discontinuity
• [fragment] Handle status of download and errors in threads correctly; and minor refactoring
• [thumbnailsconvertor] Treat jpeg as jpg
• [utils] Fix issues with LazyList reversal
• [extractor] Allow extractors to set their own login hint
• [cleanup] Simplify format selector code with LazyList and yield from
• [cleanup] Clean extractor.common._merge_subtitles signature
• [cleanup] Fix some typos

2021.06.23

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/379f52a
• Add option --throttled-rate below which video data is re-extracted
• [fragment] Merge during download for -N, and refactor hls/dash
• [websockets] Add WebSocketFragmentFD by nao20010128nao, pukkandan
• Allow images formats in addition to video/audio
• [downloader/mhtml] Add new downloader for slideshows/storyboards by fstirlitz
• [youtube] Temporary fix for age-gate
• [youtube] Support ongoing live chat by siikamiika
• [youtube] Improve SAPISID cookie handling by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Login is not needed for :ytrec
• [youtube] Non-fatal alert reporting for unavailable videos page by coletdjnz
• [twitcasting] Websocket support by nao20010128nao
• [mediasite] Extract slides by fstirlitz
• [funimation] Extract subtitles
• [pornhub] Extract cast
• [hotstar] Use server time for authentication instead of local time
• [EmbedThumbnail] Fix for already downloaded thumbnail
• [EmbedThumbnail] Add compat-option embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley
• Expand --check-formats to thumbnails
• Fix id sanitization in filenames
• Skip fixup of existing files and add --fixup force to force it
• Better error handling of syntax errors in -f
• Use NamedTemporaryFile for --check-formats
• [aria2c] Lower --min-split-size for HTTP downloads
• [options] Rename --add-metadata to --embed-metadata
• [utils] Improve LazyList and add tests
• [build] Build Windows x86 version with py3.7 and remove redundant tests by pukkandan, shirt
• [docs] Clarify that --embed-metadata embeds chapter markers
• [cleanup] Refactor fixup

2021.06.09

• Fix bug where %(field)d in filename template throws error
• [outtmpl] Improve offset parsing
• [test] More rigorous tests for prepare_filename

2021.06.08

• Remove support for obsolete Python versions: Only 3.6+ is now supported
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/c2350ca
• [hls] Fix decryption for multithreaded downloader
• [extractor] Fix pre-checking archive for some extractors
• [extractor] Fix FourCC fallback when parsing ISM by fstirlitz
• [twitcasting] Add TwitCastingUserIE, TwitCastingLiveIE by pukkandan, nao20010128nao
• [vidio] Add VidioPremierIE and VidioLiveIE by MinePlayersPE
• [viki] Fix extraction from ytdl-org/youtube-dl@59e583f
• [youtube] Support shorts URL
• [zoom] Extract transcripts as subtitles
• Add field original_url with the user-inputted URL
• Fix and refactor prepare_outtmpl
• Make more fields available for --print when used with --flat-playlist
• [utils] Generalize traverse_dict to traverse_obj
• [downloader/ffmpeg] Hide FFmpeg banner unless in verbose mode by fstirlitz
• [build] Release yt-dlp.tar.gz
• [build,update] Add GNU-style SHA512 and prepare updater for simlar SHA256 by nihil-admirari
• [pyinst] Show Python version in exe metadata by nihil-admirari
• [docs] Improve documentation of dependencies
• [cleanup] Mark unused files
• [cleanup] Point all shebang to python3 by fstirlitz
• [cleanup] Remove duplicate file trovolive.py

2021.06.01

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/d495292
• Pre-check archive and filters during playlist extraction
• Handle Basic Auth user:pass in URLs by hhirtz and pukkandan
• [archiveorg] Add YoutubeWebArchiveIE by coletdjnz and alex-gedeon
• [fancode] Add extractor by rhsmachine
• [patreon] Support vimeo embeds by rhsmachine
• [Saitosan] Add new extractor by llacb47
• [ShemarooMe] Add extractor by Ashish0804 and pukkandan
• [telemundo] Add extractor by king-millez
• [SonyLIV] Add SonyLIVSeriesIE and subtitle support by Ashish0804
• [Hotstar] Add HotStarSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [Voot] Add VootSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [vidio] Support login and premium videos by MinePlayersPE
• [fragment] When using -N, do not keep the fragment content in memory
• [ffmpeg] Download and merge in a single step if possible
• [ThumbnailsConvertor] Support conversion to png and make it the default by louie-github
• [VideoConvertor] Generalize with remuxer and allow conditional recoding
• [EmbedThumbnail] Embed in mp4/m4a using mutagen by tripulse and pukkandan
• [EmbedThumbnail] Embed if any thumbnail was downloaded, not just the best
• [EmbedThumbnail] Correctly escape filename
• [update] replace self without launching a subprocess in windows
• [update] Block further update for unsupported systems
• Refactor __process_playlist by creating LazyList
• Write messages to stderr when both quiet and verbose
• Sanitize and sort playlist thumbnails
• Remove None values from info.json
• [extractor] Always prefer native hls downloader by default
• [extractor] Skip subtitles without URI in m3u8 manifests by hheimbuerger
• [extractor] Functions to parse socket.io response as json by pukkandan and llacb47
• [extractor] Allow note=False when extracting manifests
• [utils] Escape URLs in sanitized_Request, not sanitize_url
• [hls] Disable external downloader for webtt
• [youtube] /live URLs should raise error if channel is not live
• [youtube] Bug fixes
• [zee5] Fix m3u8 formats' extension
• [ard] Allow URLs without - before id by olifre
• [cleanup] YoutubeDL._match_entry
• [cleanup] Refactor updater
• [cleanup] Refactor ffmpeg convertors
• [cleanup] setup.py

2021.05.20

• Youtube improvements:
  • Support youtube music MP, VL and browse pages
  • Extract more formats for youtube music by craftingmod, coletdjnz and pukkandan
  • Extract multiple subtitles in same language by pukkandan and tpikonen
  • Redirect channels that doesn't have a videos tab to their UU playlists
  • Support in-channel search
  • Sort audio-only formats correctly
  • Always extract maxresdefault thumbnail
  • Extract audio language
  • Add subtitle language names by nixxo and tpikonen
  • Show alerts only from the final webpage
  • Add html5=1 param to get_video_info page requests by coletdjnz
  • Better message when login required
• Add option --print: to print any field/template
  • Makes redundant: --get-description, --get-duration, --get-filename, --get-format, --get-id, --get-thumbnail, --get-title, --get-url
• Field additional_urls to download additional videos from metadata using --parse-metadata
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/dfbbe29
• Write thumbnail of playlist and add pl_thumbnail outtmpl key
• [embedthumbnail] Add flac support and refactor mutagen code by pukkandan and tripulse
• [audius:artist] Add extractor by king-millez
• [parlview] Add extractor by king-millez
• [tenplay] Fix extractor by king-millez
• [rmcdecouverte] Generalize _VALID_URL
• Add compat-option no-attach-infojson
• Add field name for subtitles
• Ensure post_extract and pre_process only run once
• Fix --check-formats when there is network error
• Standardize write_debug and get_param
• [options] Alias --write-comments, --no-write-comments
• [options] Refactor callbacks
• [test:download] Only extract enough videos for playlist_mincount
• [extractor] bugfix for when compat_opts is not given
• [build] Fix x86 build by shirt
• [cleanup] code formatting, youtube tests and readme

2021.05.11

• Deprecate support for python versions < 3.6
• Subtitle extraction from manifests by fstirlitz. See be6202f for details
• Improve output template:
  • Allow slicing lists/strings using field.start:end:step
  • A field can also be used as offset like field1+num+field2
  • A default value can be given using field|default
  • Prevent invalid fields from causing errors
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/a726009
• Remove options -l, -t, -A completely and disable --auto-number, --title, --literal, --id
• [Plugins] Prioritize plugins over standard extractors and prevent plugins from overwriting the standard extractor classes
• [downloader] Fix quiet and to_stderr
• [fragment] Ensure the file is closed on error
• [fragment] Make sure first segment is not skipped
• [aria2c] Fix whitespace being stripped off
• [embedthumbnail] Fix bug where jpeg thumbnails were converted again
• [FormatSort] Fix for when some formats have quality and others don't
• [utils] Add network_exceptions
• [utils] Escape URL while sanitizing
• [ukcolumn] Add Extractor
• [whowatch] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
• [CBS] Improve _VALID_URL to support movies
• [crackle] Improve extraction
• [curiositystream] Fix collections
• [francetvinfo] Improve video id extraction
• [generic] Respect the encoding in manifest
• [limelight] Obey allow_unplayable_formats
• [mediasite] Generalize URL pattern by fstirlitz
• [mxplayer] Add MxplayerShowIE by Ashish0804
• [nebula] Move to nebula.app by Lamieur
• [niconico] Fix HLS formats by CXwudi, tsukumijima, nao20010128nao and pukkandan
• [niconico] Fix title and thumbnail extraction by CXwudi
• [plutotv] Extract subtitles from manifests
• [plutotv] Fix format extraction for some urls
• [rmcdecouverte] Improve _VALID_URL
• [sonyliv] Fix title and series extraction by Ashish0804
• [tubi] Raise "no video formats" error when video url is empty
• [youtube:tab] Detect playlists inside community posts
• [youtube] Add oembed to reserved names
• [zee5] Fix extraction for some URLs by Hadi0609
• [zee5] Fix py2 compatibility
• Fix playlist_index and add playlist_autonumber. See #302 for details
• Add experimental option --check-formats to test the URLs before format selection
• Option --compat-options to revert some of yt-dlp's changes
  • Deprecates --list-formats-as-table, --list-formats-old
• Fix number of digits in %(playlist_index)s
• Fix case sensitivity of format selector
• Revert "[core] be able to hand over id and title using url_result"
• Do not strip out whitespaces in -o and -P
• Fix preload_download_archive writing verbose message to stdout
• Move option warnings to YoutubeDLso that they obey --no-warnings and can output colors
• Py2 compatibility for FileNotFoundError

2021.04.22

• Improve output template:
  • Objects can be traversed like %(field.key1.key2)s
  • An offset can be added to numeric fields as %(field+N)s
  • Deprecates --autonumber-start
• Improve --sub-langs:
  • Treat --sub-langs entries as regex
  • all can be used to refer to all the subtitles
  • language codes can be prefixed with - to exclude it
  • Deprecates --all-subs
• Add option --ignore-no-formats-error to ignore the "no video format" and similar errors
• Add option --skip-playlist-after-errors to skip the rest of a playlist after a given number of errors are encountered
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/7e8b3f9
• [downloader] Fix bug in downloader selection
• [BilibiliChannel] Fix pagination by nao20010128nao and pukkandan
• [rai] Add support for http formats by nixxo
• [TubiTv] Add TubiTvShowIE by Ashish0804
• [twitcasting] Fix extractor
• [viu:ott] Fix extractor and support series by lkho and pukkandan
• [youtube:tab] Show unavailable videos in playlists by coletdjnz
• [youtube:tab] Reload with unavailable videos for all playlists
• [youtube] Ignore invalid stretch ratio
• [youtube] Improve channel syncid extraction to support ytcfg by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Standardize API calls for tabs, mixes and search by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Bugfix in _extract_ytcfg
• [mildom:user:vod] Download only necessary amount of pages
• [mildom] Remove proxy completely by fstirlitz
• [go] Fix _VALID_URL
• [MetadataFromField] Improve regex and add tests
• [Exec] Ensure backward compatibility when the command contains %
• [extractor] Fix inconsistent use of report_warning
• Ensure mergeall selects best format when multistreams are disabled
• Improve the yt-dlp.sh script by fstirlitz
• [lazy_extractor] Do not load plugins
• [ci] Disable fail-fast
• [docs] Clarify which deprecated options still work
• [docs] Fix typos

2021.04.11

• Add option --convert-thumbnails (only jpg currently supported)
• Format selector mergeall to download and merge all formats
• Pass any field to --exec using similar syntax to output template
• Choose downloader for each protocol using --downloader PROTO:NAME
  • Alias --downloader for --external-downloader
  • Added native as an option for the downloader
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/4fb25ff (except vimeo)
• [DiscoveryPlusIndia] Add DiscoveryPlusIndiaShowIE by Ashish0804
• [NFHSNetwork] Add extractor by llacb47
• [nebula] Add extractor (watchnebula.com) by hheimbuerger
• [nitter] Fix extraction of reply tweets and update instance list by B0pol
• [nitter] Fix thumbnails by B0pol
• [youtube] Fix thumbnail URL
• [youtube] Parse API parameters from initial webpage by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Extract comments' approximate timestamp by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix alert extraction
• [bilibili] Fix uploader
• [utils] Add datetime_from_str and datetime_add_months by coletdjnz
• Run some postprocessors before actual download
• Improve argument parsing for -P, -o, -S
• Fix some m3u8 not obeying --allow-unplayable-formats
• Fix default of dynamic_mpd
• Deprecate --all-formats, --include-ads, --hls-prefer-native, --hls-prefer-ffmpeg
• [docs] Improvements

2021.04.03

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/654b4f4
• Ability to set a specific field in the file's metadata using --parse-metadata
• Ability to select n'th best format like -f bv*.2
• [DiscoveryPlus] Add discoveryplus.in
• [la7] Add podcasts and podcast playlists by nixxo
• [mildom] Update extractor with current proxy by nao20010128nao
• [ard:mediathek] Fix video id extraction
• [generic] Detect Invidious' link element
• [youtube] Show premium state in availability by coletdjnz
• [viewsource] Add extractor to handle view-source:
• [sponskrub] Run before embedding thumbnail
• [docs] Improve --parse-metadata documentation

2021.03.24.1

• Revert commit/8562218

2021.03.24

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.03.25 (commit/8562218)
• Parse metadata from multiple fields using --parse-metadata
• Ability to load playlist infojson using --load-info-json
• Write current epoch to infojson when using --no-clean-infojson
• [youtube_live_chat] fix bug when trying to set cookies
• [niconico] Fix for when logged in by CXwudi and xtkoba
• [linuxacadamy] Fix login

2021.03.21

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/7e79ba7

• Option --no-clean-infojson to keep private keys in the infojson

• [aria2c] Support retry/abort unavailable fragments by damianoamatruda

• [aria2c] Better default arguments

• [movefiles] Fix bugs and make more robust

• [formatSort] Fix quality being ignored

• [splitchapters] Fix for older ffmpeg

• [sponskrub] Pass proxy to sponskrub

• Make sure post_hook gets the final filename

• Recursively remove any private keys from infojson

• Embed video URL metadata inside mp4 by damianoamatruda and pukkandan

• Merge webm formats into mkv if thumbnails are to be embedded by damianoamatruda

• Use headers and cookies when downloading subtitles by damianoamatruda

• Parse resolution in info dictionary by damianoamatruda

• More consistent warning messages by damianoamatruda and pukkandan

• [docs] Add deprecated options and aliases in readme

• [docs] Fix some minor mistakes

• [niconico] Partial fix adapted from animelover1984/youtube-dl@b5eff52 (login and smile formats still don't work)

• [niconico] Add user extractor by animelover1984

• [bilibili] Add anthology support by animelover1984

• [amcnetworks] Fix extractor by 2ShedsJackson

• [stitcher] Merge from youtube-dl by nixxo

• [rcs] Improved extraction by nixxo

• [linuxacadamy] Improve regex

• [youtube] Show if video is private, unlisted etc in info (availability) by coletdjnz and pukkandan

• [youtube] bugfix for channel playlist extraction

• [nbc] Improve metadata extraction by 2ShedsJackson

2021.03.15

• Split video by chapters: using option --split-chapters
  • The output file of the split files can be set with -o/-P using the prefix chapter:
  • Additional keys section_title, section_number, section_start, section_end are available in the output template
• Parallel fragment downloads by shirt
  • Use option --concurrent-fragments (-N) to set the number of threads (default 1)
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/3be0980
• [zee5] Add Show Extractor by Ashish0804 and pukkandan
• [rai] fix drm check nixxo
• [wimtv] Add extractor by nixxo
• [mtv] Add mtv.it and extract series metadata by nixxo
• [pluto.tv] Add extractor by kevinoconnor7
• [youtube] Rewrite comment extraction by coletdjnz
• [embedthumbnail] Set mtime correctly
• Refactor some postprocessor/downloader code by pukkandan and shirt

2021.03.07

• [youtube] Fix history, mixes, community pages and trending by pukkandan and coletdjnz
• [youtube] Fix private feeds/playlists on multi-channel accounts by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Extract alerts from continuation by coletdjnz
• [cbs] Add support for ParamountPlus by shirt
• [mxplayer] Rewrite extractor with show support by pukkandan and Ashish0804
• [gedi] Improvements from youtube-dl by nixxo
• [vimeo] Fix videos with password by teesid
• [lbry] Support lbry:// url by nixxo
• [bilibili] Change Accept header by pukkandan and animelover1984
• [trovo] Pass origin header
• [rai] Check for DRM by nixxo
• [downloader] Fix bug for ffmpeg/httpie
• [update] Fix updater removing the executable bit on some UNIX distros
• [update] Fix current build hash for UNIX
• [docs] Include wget/curl/aria2c install instructions for Unix by Ashish0804
• Fix some videos downloading with m3u8 extension
• Remove "fixup is ignored" warning when fixup wasn't passed by user

2021.03.03.2

• [build] Fix bug

2021.03.03

• [youtube] Use new browse API for continuation page extraction by coletdjnz and pukkandan
• Fix HLS playlist downloading by shirt
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.03.03
• [mtv] Fix extractor
• [nick] Fix extractor by DennyDai
• [mxplayer] Add new extractor by codeasashu
• [youtube] Throw error when --extractor-retries are exhausted
• Reduce default of --extractor-retries to 3
• Fix packaging bugs by hseg

2021.03.01

• Allow specifying path in --external-downloader
• Add option --sleep-requests to sleep b/w requests
• Add option --extractor-retries to retry on known extractor errors
• Extract comments only when needed
• --get-comments doesn't imply --write-info-json if -J, -j or --print-json are used
• Fix get_executable_path by shirt
• [youtube] Retry on more known errors than just HTTP-5xx
• [youtube] Fix inconsistent webpage_url
• [tennistv] Fix format sorting
• [bilibiliaudio] Recognize the file as audio-only
• [hrfensehen] Fix wrong import
• [viki] Fix viki play pass authentication by RobinD42
• [readthedocs] Improvements by shirt
• [hls] Fix bug with m3u8 format extraction
• [hls] Enable --hls-use-mpegts by default when downloading live-streams
• [embedthumbnail] Fix bug with deleting original thumbnail
• [build] Fix completion paths, zsh pip completion install by hseg
• [ci] Disable download tests unless specifically invoked
• Cleanup some code and fix typos

2021.02.24

• Moved project to an organization yt-dlp
• Completely changed project name to yt-dlp by Pccode66 and pukkandan
  • Also, youtube-dlc config files are no longer loaded
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/4460329 (except tmz, gedi)
• Readthedocs support by shirt
• [youtube] Show if video was a live stream in info (was_live)
• [Zee5] Add new extractor by Ashish0804 and pukkandan
• [jwplatform] Add support for hyland.com
• [tennistv] Fix extractor
• [hls] Support media initialization by shirt
• [hls] Added options --hls-split-discontinuity to better support media discontinuity by shirt
• [ffmpeg] Allow passing custom arguments before -i using --ppa "ffmpeg_i1:ARGS" syntax
• Fix --windows-filenames removing / from UNIX paths
• [hls] Show warning if pycryptodome is not found
• [docs] Improvements
  • Fix documentation of Extractor Options
  • Document all in format selection
  • Document playable_in_embed in output templates

2021.02.19

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/cf2dbec (except kakao)
• [viki] Fix extractor
• [niconico] Extract channel and channel_id by kurumigi
• [youtube] Multiple page support for hashtag URLs
• [youtube] Add more invidious instances
• [youtube] Fix comment extraction when comment text is empty
• Option --windows-filenames to force use of windows compatible filenames
• [ExtractAudio] Bugfix
• Don't raise parser.error when exiting for update
• [MoveFiles] Fix for when merger can't run
• Changed --trim-file-name to --trim-filenames to be similar to related options
• Format Sort improvements:
  • Prefer vp9.2 more than other vp9 codecs
  • Remove forced priority of quality
  • Remove unnecessary field_preference and misuse of preference from extractors
• Build improvements:
  • Fix hash output by shirt
  • Lock python package versions for x86 and use wheels by shirt
  • Exclude vcruntime140.dll from UPX by jbruchon
  • Set version number based on UTC time, not local time
  • Publish on PyPi only if token is set
• [docs] Better document --prefer-free-formats and add --no-prefer-free-format

2021.02.15

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.02.10 (except archive.org)
• [niconico] Improved extraction and support encrypted/SMILE movies by kurumigi, tsukumijima, bbepis, pukkandan
• Fix HLS AES-128 with multiple keys in external downloaders by shirt
• [youtube_live_chat] Fix by using POST API by siikamiika
• [rumble] Add support for video page
• Option --allow-unplayable-formats to allow downloading unplayable video formats
• [ExtractAudio] Don't re-encode when file is already in a common audio format
• [youtube] Fix search continuations
• [youtube] Fix for new accounts
• Improve build/updater: by pukkandan and shirt
  • Fix SHA256 calculation in build and implement hash checking for updater
  • Exit immediately in windows once the update process starts
  • Fix updater for x86.exe
  • Updater looks for both yt-dlp and youtube-dlc in releases for future-proofing
  • Change optional dependency to pycryptodome
• Fix issue with unicode filenames in aria2c by shirt
• Fix allow_playlist_files not being correctly passed through
• Fix for empty HTTP head requests by shirt
• Fix get_executable_path in UNIX
• [sponskrub] Print ffmpeg output and errors to terminal
• __real_download should be false when ffmpeg unavailable and no download
• Show exe/zip/source and 32/64bit in verbose message

2021.02.09

• aria2c support for DASH/HLS: by shirt
• Implement Updater (-U) by shirt
• [youtube] Fix comment extraction
• [youtube_live_chat] Improve extraction
• [youtube] Fix for channel URLs sometimes not downloading all pages
• [aria2c] Changed default arguments to --console-log-level=warn --summary-interval=0 --file-allocation=none -x16 -j16 -s16
• Add fallback for thumbnails
• [embedthumbnail] Keep original thumbnail after conversion if write_thumbnail given
• [embedsubtitle] Keep original subtitle after conversion if write_subtitles given
• [pyinst.py] Move back to root dir
• [youtube] Simplified renderer parsing and bugfixes
• [movefiles] Fix compatibility with python2
• [remuxvideo] Fix validation of conditional remux
• [sponskrub] Don't raise error when the video does not exist
• [docs] Crypto is an optional dependency

2021.02.04

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.02.04.1
• Date/time formatting in output template:
  • You can use strftime to format date/time fields. Example: %(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s
• Multiple output templates:
  • Separate output templates can be given for the different metadata files by using -o TYPE:TEMPLATE
  • The allowed types are: subtitle|thumbnail|description|annotation|infojson|pl_description|pl_infojson
• [youtube] More metadata extraction for channel/playlist URLs (channel, uploader, thumbnail, tags)
• New option --no-write-playlist-metafiles to prevent writing playlist metadata files
• [audius] Fix extractor
• [youtube_live_chat] Fix parse_yt_initial_data and add fragment_retries
• [postprocessor] Raise errors correctly
• [metadatafromtitle] Fix bug when extracting data from numeric fields
• Fix issue with overwriting files
• Fix "Default format spec" appearing in quiet mode
• [FormatSort] Allow user to prefer av01 over vp9 (The default is still vp9)
• [FormatSort] fix bug where quality had more priority than hasvid
• [pyinst] Automatically detect python architecture and working directory
• Strip out internal fields such as _filename from infojson

2021.01.29

• Features from animelover1984/youtube-dl: by animelover1984 and bbepis
  • Add --get-comments
  • [youtube] Extract comments
  • [billibilli] Added BiliBiliSearchIE, BilibiliChannelIE
  • [billibilli] Extract comments
  • [billibilli] Better video extraction
  • Write playlist data to infojson
  • [FFmpegMetadata] Embed infojson inside the video
  • [EmbedThumbnail] Try embedding in mp4 using ffprobe and -disposition
  • [EmbedThumbnail] Treat mka like mkv and mov like mp4
  • [EmbedThumbnail] Embed in ogg/opus
  • [VideoRemuxer] Conditionally remux video
  • [VideoRemuxer] Add -movflags +faststart when remuxing to mp4
  • [ffmpeg] Print entire stderr in verbose when there is error
  • [EmbedSubtitle] Warn when embedding ass in mp4
  • [anvato] Use NFLTokenGenerator if possible
• Parse additional metadata: New option --parse-metadata to extract additional metadata from existing fields
  • The extracted fields can be used in --output
  • Deprecated --metadata-from-title
• [Audius] Add extractor
• [youtube] Extract playlist description and write it to .description file
• Detect existing files even when using recode/remux (extract-audio is partially fixed)
• Fix wrong user config from v2021.01.24
• [youtube] Report error message from youtube as error instead of warning
• [FormatSort] Fix some fields not sorting from v2021.01.24
• [postprocessor] Deprecate avconv/avprobe. All current functionality is left untouched. But don't expect any new features to work with avconv
• [postprocessor] fix write_debug to not throw error when there is no _downloader
• [movefiles] Don't give "cant find" warning when move is unnecessary
• Refactor update-version, pyinst.py and related files
• [ffmpeg] Document more formats that are supported for remux/recode

2021.01.24

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.24
• Plugin support (documentation)
• Multiple paths: New option -P/--paths to give different paths for different types of files
  • The syntax is -P "type:path" -P "type:path"
  • Valid types are: home, temp, description, annotation, subtitle, infojson, thumbnail
  • Additionally, configuration file is taken from home directory or current directory
• Allow passing different arguments to different external downloaders
• [mildom] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
• Warn when using old style --external-downloader-args and --post-processor-args
• Fix --no-overwrite when using --write-link
• [sponskrub] Output unrecognized argument error message correctly
• [cbs] Make failure to extract title non-fatal
• Fix typecasting when pre-checking archive
• Fix issue with setting title on UNIX
• Deprecate redundant aliases in formatSort. The aliases remain functional for backward compatibility, but will be left undocumented
• [tests] Fix test_post_hooks
• [tests] Split core and download tests

2021.01.20

• [TrovoLive] Add extractor (only VODs)
• [pokemon] Add /#/player URLs
• Improved parsing of multiple postprocessor-args, add --ppa as alias
• [EmbedThumbnail] Simplify embedding in mkv
• [sponskrub] Encode filenames correctly, better debug output and error message
• [readme] Cleanup options

2021.01.16

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.16
• Configuration files:
  • Portable configuration file: ./yt-dlp.conf
  • Allow the configuration files to be named yt-dlp instead of youtube-dlc. See this for details
• Add PyPI release

2021.01.14

• Added option --break-on-reject
• [roosterteeth.com] Fix for bonus episodes by Zocker1999NET
• [tiktok] Fix for when share_info is empty
• [EmbedThumbnail] Fix bug due to incorrect function name
• [docs] Changed sponskrub links to point to yt-dlp/SponSkrub since I am now providing both linux and windows releases
• [docs] Change all links to correctly point to new fork URL
• [docs] Fixes typos

2021.01.12

• [roosterteeth.com] Add subtitle support by samiksome
• Added --force-overwrites, --no-force-overwrites by alxnull
• Changed fork name to yt-dlp
• Fix typos by FelixFrog
• [ci] Option to skip
• [changelog] Added unreleased changes in blackjack4494/yt-dlc

2021.01.10

• [archive.org] Fix extractor and add support for audio and playlists by wporr
• [Animelab] Added by mariuszskon
• [youtube:search] Fix view_count by ohnonot
• [youtube] Show if video is embeddable in info (playable_in_embed)
• Update version badge automatically in README
• Enable test_youtube_search_matching
• Create to_screen and similar functions in postprocessor/common

2021.01.09

• [youtube] Fix bug in automatic caption extraction
• Add post_hooks to YoutubeDL by alexmerkel
• Batch file enumeration improvements by glenn-slayden
• Stop immediately when reaching --max-downloads by glenn-slayden
• Fix incorrect ANSI sequence for restoring console-window title by glenn-slayden
• Kill child processes when yt-dlc is killed by Unrud

2021.01.08

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.08 except stitcher (1, 2)
• Moved changelog to separate file

2021.01.07-1

• [Akamai] fix by nixxo
• [Tiktok] merge youtube-dl tiktok extractor by GreyAlien502
• [vlive] add support for playlists by kyuyeunk
• [youtube_live_chat] make sure playerOffsetMs is positive by siikamiika
• Ignore extra data streams in ffmpeg by jbruchon
• Allow passing different arguments to different postprocessors using --postprocessor-args
• Deprecated --sponskrub-args. The same can now be done using --postprocessor-args "sponskrub:<args>"
• [CI] Split tests into core-test and full-test

2021.01.07

• Removed priority of av01 codec in -S since most devices don't support it yet
• Added duration_string to be used in --output
• Created First Release

2021.01.05-1

• Changed defaults:
  • Enabled --ignore
  • Disabled --video-multistreams and --audio-multistreams
  • Changed default format selection to bv*+ba/b when --audio-multistreams is disabled
  • Changed default format sort order to res,fps,codec,size,br,asr,proto,ext,has_audio,source,format_id
  • Changed webm to be more preferable than flv in format sorting
  • Changed default output template to %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s
  • Enabled --list-formats-as-table

2021.01.05

• Format Sort: Added --format-sort (-S), --format-sort-force (--S-force) - See Sorting Formats for details
• Format Selection: See Format Selection for details
  • New format selectors: best*, worst*, bestvideo*, bestaudio*, worstvideo*, worstaudio*
  • Changed video format sorting to show video only files and video+audio files together.
  • Added --video-multistreams, --no-video-multistreams, --audio-multistreams, --no-audio-multistreams
  • Added b,w,v,a as alias for best, worst, video and audio respectively
• Shortcut Options: Added --write-link, --write-url-link, --write-webloc-link, --write-desktop-link by h-h-h-h - See Internet Shortcut Options for details
• Sponskrub integration: Added --sponskrub, --sponskrub-cut, --sponskrub-force, --sponskrub-location, --sponskrub-args - See SponSkrub Options for details
• Added --force-download-archive (--force-write-archive) by h-h-h-h
• Added --list-formats-as-table, --list-formats-old
• Negative Options: Makes it possible to negate most boolean options by adding a no- to the switch. Usefull when you want to reverse an option that is defined in a config file
  • Added --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd, --no-allow-dynamic-mpd, --allow-dynamic-mpd, --youtube-include-hls-manifest, --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest, --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest, --no-download, --no-download-archive, --resize-buffer, --part, --mtime, --no-keep-fragments, --no-cookies, --no-write-annotations, --no-write-info-json, --no-write-description, --no-write-thumbnail, --youtube-include-dash-manifest, --post-overwrites, --no-keep-video, --no-embed-subs, --no-embed-thumbnail, --no-add-metadata, --no-include-ads, --no-write-sub, --no-write-auto-sub, --no-playlist-reverse, --no-restrict-filenames, --youtube-include-dash-manifest, --no-format-sort-force, --flat-videos, --no-list-formats-as-table, --no-sponskrub, --no-sponskrub-cut, --no-sponskrub-force
  • Renamed: --write-subs, --no-write-subs, --no-write-auto-subs, --write-auto-subs. Note that these can still be used without the ending "s"
• Relaxed validation for format filters so that any arbitrary field can be used
• Fix for embedding thumbnail in mp3 by pauldubois98 (ytdl-org/youtube-dl#21569)
• Make Twitch Video ID output from Playlist and VOD extractor same. This is only a temporary fix
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.03 - See blackjack4494/yt-dlc#280 for details
  • Extractors tiktok and hotstar have not been merged
• Cleaned up the fork for public use

Note: All uncredited changes above this point are authored by pukkandan

Unreleased changes in blackjack4494/yt-dlc

• Updated to youtube-dl release 2020.11.26 by pukkandan
• Youtube improvements by pukkandan
  • Implemented all Youtube Feeds (ytfav, ytwatchlater, ytsubs, ythistory, ytrec) and SearchURL
  • Fix some improper Youtube URLs
  • Redirect channel home to /video
  • Print youtube's warning message
  • Handle Multiple pages for feeds better
• [youtube] Fix ytsearch not returning results sometimes due to promoted content by coletdjnz
• [youtube] Temporary fix for automatic captions - disable json3 by blackjack4494
• Add --break-on-existing by gergesh
• Pre-check video IDs in the archive before downloading by pukkandan
• [bitwave.tv] New extractor by lorpus
• [Gedi] Add extractor by nixxo
• [Rcs] Add new extractor by nixxo
• [skyit] New skyitalia extractor by nixxo
• [france.tv] Fix thumbnail URL by renalid
• [ina] support mobile links by B0pol
• [instagram] Fix thumbnail extractor by nao20010128nao
• [SouthparkDe] Support for English URLs by xypwn
• [spreaker] fix SpreakerShowIE test URL by pukkandan
• [Vlive] Fix playlist handling when downloading a channel by kyuyeunk
• [tmz] Fix extractor by diegorodriguezv
• [ITV] BTCC URL update by WolfganP
• [generic] Detect embedded bitchute videos by pukkandan
• [generic] Extract embedded youtube and twitter videos by diegorodriguezv
• [ffmpeg] Ensure all streams are copied by pukkandan
• [embedthumbnail] Fix for os.rename error by pukkandan
• make_win.bat: don't use UPX to pack vcruntime140.dll by jbruchon

Changelog of blackjack4494/yt-dlc till release 2020.11.11-3

Note: This was constructed from the merge commit messages and may not be entirely accurate

• [bandcamp] fix failing test. remove subclass hack by insaneracist
• [bandcamp] restore album downloads by insaneracist
• [francetv] fix extractor by Surkal
• [gdcvault] fix extractor by blackjack4494
• [hotstar] Move to API v1 by theincognito-inc
• [hrfernsehen] add extractor by blocktrron
• [kakao] new apis by blackjack4494
• [la7] fix missing protocol by nixxo
• [mailru] removed escaped braces, use urljoin, added tests by nixxo
• [MTV/Nick] universal mgid extractor + fix nick.de feed by blackjack4494
• [mtv] Fix a missing match_id by nixxo
• [Mtv] updated extractor logic & more by blackjack4494
• [ndr] support Daserste ndr by blackjack4494
• [Netzkino] Only use video id to find metadata by TobiX
• [newgrounds] fix: video download by insaneracist
• [nitter] Add new extractor by B0pol
• [soundcloud] Resolve audio/x-wav by tfvlrue
• [soundcloud] sets pattern and tests by blackjack4494
• [SouthparkDE/MTV] another mgid extraction (mtv_base) feed url updated by blackjack4494
• [StoryFire] Add new extractor by sgstair
• [twitch] by geauxlo
• [videa] Adapt to updates by adrianheine
• [Viki] subtitles, formats by blackjack4494
• [vlive] fix extractor for revamped website by exwm
• [xtube] fix extractor by insaneracist
• [youtube] Convert subs when download is skipped by blackjack4494
• [youtube] Fix age gate detection by random-nick
• [youtube] fix yt-only playback when age restricted/gated - requires cookies by blackjack4494
• [youtube] fix: extract artist metadata from ytInitialData by insaneracist
• [youtube] fix: extract mix playlist ids from ytInitialData by insaneracist
• [youtube] fix: mix playlist title by insaneracist
• [youtube] fix: Youtube Music playlists by insaneracist
• [Youtube] Fixed problem with new youtube player by peet1993
• [zoom] Fix url parsing for url's containing /share/ and dots by Romern
• [zoom] new extractor by insaneracist
• abc by adrianheine
• Added Comcast_SSO fix by merval
• Added DRM logic to brightcove by merval
• Added regex for ABC.com site. by kucksdorfs
• alura by hugohaa
• Arbitrary merges by fstirlitz
• ard.py_add_playlist_support by martin54
• Bugfix/youtube/chapters fix extractor by gschizas
• bugfix_youtube_like_extraction by RedpointsBots
• Create build workflow by blackjack4494
• deezer by LucBerge
• Detect embedded bitchute videos by pukkandan
• Don't install tests by l29ah
• Don't try to embed/convert json subtitles generated by youtube livechat by pukkandan
• Doodstream by sxvghd
• duboku by lkho
• elonet by tpikonen
• ext/remuxe-video by Zocker1999NET
• fall-back to the old way to fetch subtitles, if needed by RobinD42
• feature_subscriber_count by RedpointsBots
• Fix external downloader when there is no http_header by pukkandan
• Fix issue triggered by tubeup by nsapa
• Fix YoutubePlaylistsIE by ZenulAbidin
• fix-mitele' by DjMoren
• fix/google-drive-cookie-issue by legraphista
• fix_tiktok by mervel-mervel
• Fixed problem with JS player URL by peet1993
• fixYTSearch by xarantolus
• FliegendeWurst-3sat-zdf-merger-bugfix-feature
• gilou-bandcamp_update
• implement ThisVid extractor by rigstot
• JensTimmerman-patch-1 by JensTimmerman
• Keep download archive in memory for better performance by jbruchon
• la7-fix by iamleot
• magenta by adrianheine
• Merge 26564 from adrianheine
• Merge code from ddland
• Merge code from nixxo
• Merge code from ssaqua
• Merge code from zubearc
• mkvthumbnail by MrDoritos
• myvideo_ge by fonkap
• naver by SeonjaeHyeon
• ondemandkorea by julien-hadleyjack
• rai-update by iamleot
• RFC: youtube: Polymer UI and JSON endpoints for playlists by wlritchi
• rutv by adrianheine
• Sc extractor web auth by blackjack4494
• Switch from binary search tree to Python sets by jbruchon
• tiktok by skyme5
• tvnow by TinyToweringTree
• twitch-fix by lel-amri
• Twitter shortener by blackjack4494
• Update README.md by JensTimmerman
• Update to reflect website changes. by amigatomte
• use webarchive to fix a dead link in README by B0pol
• Viki the second by blackjack4494
• wdr-subtitles by mrtnmtth
• Webpfix by alexmerkel
• Youtube live chat by siikamiika