yt-dlp 2021.03.24.1

CHANGELOG

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.03.25
• 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

yt-dlp 2021.03.21

Changelog:

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/7e79ba7
• Option --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
• [documentation] Add deprecated options and aliases in readme
• [documentation] Fix some minor mistakes
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• [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 colethedj and pukkandan
• [youtube] bugfix for channel playlist extraction
• [nbc] Improve metadata extraction by 2ShedsJackson

yt-dlp 2021.03.15

Changelog:

• 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 Ashish 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 colethedj
• [embedthumbnail] Set mtime correctly
• Refactor some postprocessor/downloader code by pukkandan and shirt

yt-dlp 2021.03.07

Changelog:

• [youtube] Fix history, mixes, community pages and trending by pukkandan and colethedj
• [youtube] Fix private feeds/playlists on multi-channel accounts by colethedj
• [youtube] Extract alerts from continuation by colethedj
• [cbs] Add support for ParamountPlus by shirt
• [mxplayer] Rewrite extractor with show support by pukkandan and Ashish
• [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
• [documentation] Include wget/curl/aria2c install instructions for Unix by Ashish
• Fix some videos downloading with m3u8 extension
• Remove "fixup is ignored" warning when fixup wasn't passed by user

yt-dlp 2021.03.03.2

This is an important update since it fixes youtube channels/playlists and twitch livestreams

Changelog:

• [youtube] Use new browse API for continuation page extraction by colethedj 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

yt-dlp 2021.03.01

Changelog:

• 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

yt-dlp 2021.02.24

Important

The module name have been changed from youtube_dlc to yt_dlp and the binary name from youtube-dlc to yt-dlp. Take care to modify your programs/scripts to work with this change in name

Changelog:

• 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 Ashish 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" synatax
• Fix --windows-filenames removing / from UNIX paths
• [hls] Show warning if pycryptodome is not found
• [documentation] Improvements
  • Fix documentation of Extractor Options
  • Document all in format selection
  • Document playable_in_embed in output templates

yt-dlp 2021.02.19

Changelog:

• 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
• [documentation] Better document --prefer-free-formats and add --no-prefer-free-format

yt-dlp 2021.02.15

Changelog:

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.02.10 (except archive.org)
• [niconico] Improved extraction and support encrypted/SMILE movies
• Fix HLS AES-128 with multiple keys in external downloaders
• [youtube_live_chat] Fix by using POST API
• [rumble] Add support for video page
• Option to allow downloading unplayable video formats (--allow-unplayable-formats)
• [ExtractAudio] Don't re-encode when file is already in a common audio format
• Change optional dependency to pycryptodome
• [youtube] Fix search continuations
• [youtube] Fix for new accounts
• Improve build/updater:
  • 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
• Fix issue with unicode filenames in aria2c
• Fix allow_playlist_files not being correctly passed through
• Fix for empty HTTP head requests
• 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

yt-dlp 2021.02.09

Changelog:

• 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
• [documentation] Crypto is an optional dependency