Collaborators
This is a list of the collaborators of the project and their major contributions. See the Changelog for more details.
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- Multithreading (
-N
) and aria2c support for fragment downloads
- Support for media initialization and discontinuity in HLS
- The self-updater (
-U
)
- Improved plugin architecture
- Rewrote the networking infrastructure, implemented support for
requests
- YouTube improvements including: age-gate bypass, private playlists, multiple-clients (to avoid throttling) and a lot of under-the-hood improvements
- Added support for new websites YoutubeWebArchive, MainStreaming, PRX, nzherald, Mediaklikk, StarTV etc
- Improved/fixed support for Patreon, panopto, gfycat, itv, pbs, SouthParkDE etc
- Added support for new websites BiliIntl, DiscoveryPlusIndia, OlympicsReplay, PlanetMarathi, ShemarooMe, Utreon, Zee5 etc
- Added playlist/series downloads for Hotstar, ParamountPlus, Rumble, SonyLIV, Trovo, TubiTv, Voot etc
- Improved/fixed support for HiDive, HotStar, Hungama, LBRY, LinkedInLearning, Mxplayer, SonyLiv, TV2, Vimeo, VLive etc
--update-to
, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
--cookies-from-browser
support for Firefox containers, external downloader cookie handling overhaul
- Added support for new websites like Dacast, Kick, NBCStations, Triller, VideoKen, Weverse, WrestleUniverse etc
- Improved/fixed support for Anvato, Brightcove, Reddit, SlidesLive, TikTok, Twitter, Vimeo etc
--update-to
, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
- Reworked internals like
traverse_obj
, various core refactors and bugs fixes
- Implemented proper progress reporting for parallel downloads
- Improved/fixed/added Bundestag, crunchyroll, pr0gramm, Twitter, WrestleUniverse etc
- UX improvements: Warn when ffmpeg is missing, warn when double-clicking exe
- Code cleanup: Remove dead extractors, mark extractors as broken, enable/apply ruff rules
- Improved/fixed/added ArdMediathek, DRTV, Floatplane, MagentaMusik, Naver, Nebula, OnDemandKorea, Vbox7 etc