yt-dlc/Changelog.md

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Changelog

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
  • [documentation] 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: 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
  • [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" (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

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
  • [documentation] Changed sponskrub links to point to pukkandan/sponskrub since I am now providing both linux and windows releases
  • [documentation] Change all links to correctly point to new fork URL
  • [documentation] 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
  • 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
    • Extractor stitcher (1, 2) have not been merged
  • Moved changelog to seperate 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]README.md(#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
  • Cleaned up the fork for public use

Unreleased changes in blackjack4494/yt-dlc

  • Updated to youtube-dl release 2020.11.26
  • [youtube]
    • Implemented all Youtube Feeds (ytfav, ytwatchlater, ytsubs, ythistory, ytrec) and SearchURL
    • Fix ytsearch not returning results sometimes due to promoted content
    • Temporary fix for automatic captions - disable json3
    • Fix some improper Youtube URLs
    • Redirect channel home to /video
    • Print youtube's warning message
    • Multiple pages are handled better for feeds
  • Add --break-on-existing by gergesh
  • Pre-check video IDs in the archive before downloading
  • [bitwave.tv] New extractor
  • [Gedi] Add extractor
  • [Rcs] Add new extractor
  • [skyit] Add support for multiple Sky Italia website and removed old skyitalia extractor
  • [france.tv] Fix thumbnail URL
  • [ina] support mobile links
  • [instagram] Fix extractor
  • [itv] BTCC new pages' URL update (articles instead of races)
  • [SouthparkDe] Support for English URLs
  • [spreaker] fix SpreakerShowIE test URL
  • [Vlive] Fix playlist handling when downloading a channel
  • [generic] Detect embedded bitchute videos
  • [generic] Extract embedded youtube and twitter videos
  • [ffmpeg] Ensure all streams are copied
  • Fix for os.rename error when embedding thumbnail to video in a different drive
  • make_win.bat: don't use UPX to pack vcruntime140.dll