yt-dlp 2021.02.04

Changelog:

• 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

yt-dlp 2021.01.29

Changelog:

• Features from animelover1984/youtube-dl: Co-authored 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
• [FormatSort] Fix some fields not sorting from v2021.01.24
• [youtube] Report error message from youtube as error instead of warning
• [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

yt-dlp 2021.01.24-1

2021.01.24-1

• Quick fix for user config paths

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" (documentation)
  • Valid types are: home, temp, description, annotation, subtitle, infojson, thumbnail
  • Additionally, configuration file is taken from home directory or current directory (documentation)

• Allow passing different arguments to different external downloaders (documentation)

• [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

yt-dlp 2021.01.20

Changelog:

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

yt-dlp 2021.01.16

Changelog:

• 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

youtube-dlc 2021.01.14

Changelog:

• 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
• [documentation] Changed sponskrub links to point to pukkandan/sponskrub
• [documentation] Change all links to correctly point to new fork URL
• [documentation] Fixes typos

PS: I am now providing both windows and linux releases for sponskrub at pukkandan/sponskrub. Those who use/want to use this feature on windows, please let me know if there are any issues with the windows release

youtube-dlc 2021.01.12

Changelog:

• [roosterteeth.com] Add subtitle support by @samiksome
• Added --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

youtube-dlc 2021.01.10

Changelog:

• [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
• Update version badge automatically in README
• Enable test_youtube_search_matching
• Create to_screen and similar functions in postprocessor/common

youtube-dlc 2021.01.09

Changelog:

• [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

youtube-dlc 2021.01.08

Changelog:

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2020.01.08
  • Extractor stitcher (1, 2) have not been merged
• Moved changelog to seperate file