yt-dlp 2021.07.07

Changelog:

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/a803582
• Add --extractor-args to pass extractor-specific arguments
  • 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 colethedj
  • 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 colethedj
• [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

yt-dlp 2021.06.23

Changelog:

• 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 WebSocketFragmentFDby 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 colethedj
• [youtube] Login is not needed for :ytrec
• [youtube] Non-fatal alert reporting for unavailable videos page by colethedj
• [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

Note: While youtube throttling issue hasn't been fixed, it can be worked around by using --throttled-rate 100K

yt-dlp 2021.06.09

Changelog:

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

The quick release is due to the seriousness of the output template bug. Due to the same reason, Win XP (Py3.4) support has been extended to this release

yt-dlp 2021.06.08

Changelog:

• 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 by 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

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v2021.06.01 was supposed to be the last version where the windows x86 binary is built with Python 3.4 and thus have compatibility with Windows XP. However, a bug was discovered in video decryption when using -N for the last version and I did not want the last release to be a buggy one. So, while python 3.4 support has already been officially dropped, the yt-dlp_x86.exe of this release is built with it, making this the actual last release that supports Windows XP

Edit: See 2021.06.09

yt-dlp 2021.06.01

IMPORTANT

This will be the last release that supports python versions < 3.6

Once you update to this version, -U will be blocked for Windows XP and for UNIX systems without python 3.6+

Edit: Version 2021.06.09 also has Windows XP Support despite python 3.4 support being dropped after this release. See the release description for details

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Changelog

• 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 colethedj and alex-gedeon
• [fancode] Add extractor by rmsmachine
• [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

yt-dlp 2021.05.20

• Youtube improvements:
  • Support youtube music MP, VL and browse pages
  • Extract more formats for youtube music by craftingmod, colethedj, 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 colethedj
  • Better message when login required
• Add option --print: to print any field/template
  Deprecates: --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
• [cleanup] code formatting, youtube tests and readme

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There was some issue in building the x86 release. So it will be temporarily unavailable Fixed

yt-dlp 2021.05.11

Changelog:

• 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

yt-dlp 2021.04.22

Changelog:

• 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 andpukkandan
• [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 andpukkandan
• [youtube:tab] Show unavailable videos in playlists by colethedj
• [youtube:tab] Reload with unavailable videos for all playlists
• [youtube] Ignore invalid stretch ratio
• [youtube] Improve channel syncid extraction to support ytcfg by colethedj
• [youtube] Standardize API calls for tabs, mixes and search by colethedj
• [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
• [documentation] Clarify which deprecated options still work
• [documentation] Fix typos

yt-dlp 2021.04.11

Changelog:

• 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 colethedj
• [youtube] Extract comments' approximate timestamp by colethedj
• [youtube] Fix alert extraction
• [bilibili] Fix uploader
• [utils] Add datetime_from_str and datetime_add_months by colethedj
• 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
• [documentation] Improvements

yt-dlp 2021.04.03

Changelog:

• 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 colethedj
• [viewsource] Add extractor to handle view-source:
• [sponskrub] Run before embedding thumbnail
• [documentation] Improve --parse-metadata documentation