* To decrypt chromium cookies, `keyring` is needed for UNIX and `pycryptodome` for Windows
* Add option `--exec-before-download`
* Add field `live_status`
* [FFmpegMetadata] Add language of each stream and some refactoring
* [douyin] Add extractor by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan), [pyx](https://github.com/pyx)
* [pornflip] Add extractor by [mzbaulhaque](https://github.com/mzbaulhaque)
* **[youtube] Extract data from multiple clients** by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan), [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* `player_client` now accepts multiple clients
* Default `player_client` = `android,web`
* This uses twice as many requests, but avoids throttling for most videos while also not losing any formats
* Music clients can be specifically requested and is enabled by default if `music.youtube.com`
* Added `player_client=ios` (Known issue: formats from ios are not sorted correctly)
* Add age-gate bypass for android and ios clients
* [youtube] Extract more thumbnails
* The thumbnail URLs are hard-coded and their actual existence is tested lazily
* Added option `--no-check-formats` to not test them
* [youtube] Misc fixes
* Improve extraction of livestream metadata by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan), [krichbanana](https://github.com/krichbanana)
* Hide live dash formats since they can't be downloaded anyway
* Fix authentication when using multiple accounts by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* Fix controversial videos when requested via API by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* Fix session index extraction and headers for non-web player clients by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* Make `--extractor-retries` work for more errors
* Fix sorting of 3gp format
* Sanity check `chapters` (and refactor related code)
* Make `parse_time_text` and `_extract_chapters` non-fatal
* Misc cleanup and bug fixes by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* [youtube:tab] Fix channels tab
* [youtube:tab] Extract playlist availability by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* **[youtube:comments] Move comment extraction to new API** by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* [youtube:comments] Fix `is_favorited`, improve `like_count` parsing by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
* [BravoTV] Improve metadata extraction by [kevinoconnor7](https://github.com/kevinoconnor7)
* [crunchyroll:playlist] Force http
* [yahoo:gyao:player] Relax `_VALID_URL` by [nao20010128nao](https://github.com/nao20010128nao)
* [nebula] Authentication via tokens from cookie jar by [hheimbuerger](https://github.com/hheimbuerger), [TpmKranz](https://github.com/TpmKranz)
* [RTP] Fix extraction and add subtitles by [fstirlitz](https://github.com/fstirlitz)
* [viki] Rewrite extractors and add extractor-arg `video_types` to `vikichannel` by [zackmark29](https://github.com/zackmark29), [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
* [vlive] Extract thumbnail directly in addition to the one from Naver
* [generic] Extract previously missed subtitles by [fstirlitz](https://github.com/fstirlitz)
* [generic] Extract everything in the SMIL manifest and detect discarded subtitles by [fstirlitz](https://github.com/fstirlitz)
@ -75,19 +75,22 @@ The major new features from the latest release of [blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https:/
* All Feeds (`:ytfav`, `:ytwatchlater`, `:ytsubs`, `:ythistory`, `:ytrec`) supports downloading multiple pages of content
* Search (`ytsearch:`, `ytsearchdate:`), search URLs and in-channel search works
* Mixes supports downloading multiple pages of content
* Partial workarounds for age-gate and throttling issues
* Redirect channel's home URL automatically to `/video` to preserve the old behaviour
* `255kbps` audio is extracted from youtube music if premium cookies are given
* Youtube music Albums, channels etc can be downloaded
* **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using `--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]`
* **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using `--split-chapters`
* **Multi-threaded fragment downloads**: Download multiple fragments of m3u8/mpd videos in parallel. Use `--concurrent-fragments` (`-N`) option to set the number of threads used
* **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use `aria2c` as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats
* **Subtitle extraction from manifests**: Subtitles can be extracted from streaming media manifests. See [commit/be6202f](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/be6202f12b97858b9d716e608394b51065d0419f) for details
@ -105,8 +108,6 @@ The major new features from the latest release of [blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https:/
* **Self-updater**: The releases can be updated using `yt-dlp -U`
* **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using `--cookies-from-browser <browser_name>`
See [changelog](Changelog.md) or [commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes
@ -841,7 +842,7 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
--extractor-args KEY:ARGS Pass these arguments to the extractor. See