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### 2025.01.15
#### Extractor changes
- **youtube**: [Do not use `web_creator` as a default client](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c8541f8b13e743fcfa06667530d13fee8686e22a) ([#12087](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12087)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
### 2025.01.12
#### Core changes
- [Fix filename sanitization with `--no-windows-filenames`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8346b549150003df988538e54c9d8bc4de568979) ([#11988](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11988)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
- [Validate retries values are non-negative](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/1f4e1e85a27c5b43e34d7706cfd88ffce1b56a4a) ([#11927](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11927)) by [Strkmn](https://github.com/Strkmn)
#### Extractor changes
- **drtalks**: [Add extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/1f489f4a45691cac3f9e787d22a3a8a086229ba6) ([#10831](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10831)) by [pzhlkj6612](https://github.com/pzhlkj6612), [seproDev](https://github.com/seproDev)
- **plvideo**: [Add extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/3c14e9191f3035b9a729d1d87bc0381f42de57cf) ([#10657](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10657)) by [Sanceilaks](https://github.com/Sanceilaks), [seproDev](https://github.com/seproDev)
- **vine**: [Remove extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/e2ef4fece6c9742d1733e3bae408c4787765f78c) ([#11700](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11700)) by [allendema](https://github.com/allendema)
- **xiaohongshu**: [Extend `_VALID_URL`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/763ed06ee69f13949397897bd42ff2ec3dc3d384) ([#11806](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11806)) by [HobbyistDev](https://github.com/HobbyistDev)
- **youtube**
- [Fix DASH formats incorrectly skipped in some situations](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/0b6b7742c2e7f2a1fcb0b54ef3dd484bab404b3f) ([#11910](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11910)) by [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
- [Refactor cookie auth](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/75079f4e3f7dce49b61ef01da7adcd9876a0ca3b) ([#11989](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11989)) by [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
- [Use `tv` instead of `mweb` client by default](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/712d2abb32f59b2d246be2901255f84f1a4c30b3) ([#12059](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12059)) by [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
#### Misc. changes
- **cleanup**: Miscellaneous: [dade5e3](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/dade5e35c89adaad04408bfef766820dbca06ebe) by [grqz](https://github.com/grqz), [Grub4K](https://github.com/Grub4K), [seproDev](https://github.com/seproDev)
@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ The following extractors use this feature:
#### youtube
* `lang`: Prefer translated metadata (`title`, `description` etc) of this language code (case-sensitive). By default, the video primary language metadata is preferred, with a fallback to `en` translated. See [youtube.py](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/c26f9b991a0681fd3ea548d535919cec1fbbd430/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py#L381-L390) for list of supported content language codes
* `skip`: One or more of `hls`, `dash` or `translated_subs` to skip extraction of the m3u8 manifests, dash manifests and [auto-translated subtitles](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/4090#issuecomment-1158102032) respectively
* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are `web`, `ios` and `android`, with variants `_music` and `_creator` (e.g. `ios_creator`); and `mweb`, `android_vr`, `web_safari`, `web_embedded`, `tv` and `tv_embedded` with no variants. By default, `ios,mweb` is used, or `web_creator,mweb` is used when authenticating with cookies. The `_music` variants are added for `music.youtube.com` URLs. Some clients, such as `web` and `android`, require a `po_token` for their formats to be downloadable. Some clients, such as the `_creator` variants, will only work with authentication. Not all clients support authentication via cookies. You can use `all` to use all the clients, and `default` for the default clients. You can prefix a client with `-` to exclude it, e.g. `youtube:player_client=all,-web`
* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are `web`, `ios` and `android`, with variants `_music` and `_creator` (e.g. `ios_creator`); and `mweb`, `android_vr`, `web_safari`, `web_embedded`, `tv` and `tv_embedded` with no variants. By default, `tv,ios,web` is used, or `tv,web` is used when authenticating with cookies. The `_music` variants may be added for `music.youtube.com` URLs. Some clients, such as `web` and `android`, require a `po_token` for their formats to be downloadable. Some clients, such as the `_creator` variants, will only work with authentication. Not all clients support authentication via cookies. You can use `default` for the default clients, or you can use `all` for all clients (not recommended). You can prefix a client with `-` to exclude it, e.g. `youtube:player_client=default,-ios`
* `player_skip`: Skip some network requests that are generally needed for robust extraction. One or more of `configs` (skip client configs), `webpage` (skip initial webpage), `js` (skip js player). While these options can help reduce the number of requests needed or avoid some rate-limiting, they could cause some issues. See [#860](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/860) for more details
* `player_params`: YouTube player parameters to use for player requests. Will overwrite any default ones set by yt-dlp.
* `comment_sort`: `top` or `new` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
# This client now requires sign-in for every video
@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
},
},
'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME':62,
'REQUIRE_PO_TOKEN':True,
'REQUIRE_AUTH':True,
'SUPPORTS_COOKIES':True,
},
@ -212,8 +213,8 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
},
},
'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME':5,
'REQUIRE_PO_TOKEN':True,
'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER':False,
'REQUIRE_PO_TOKEN':True,
},
# This client now requires sign-in for every video
'ios_music':{
@ -230,6 +231,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
},
'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME':26,
'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER':False,
'REQUIRE_PO_TOKEN':True,
'REQUIRE_AUTH':True,
},
# This client now requires sign-in for every video
@ -247,6 +249,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
},
'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME':15,
'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER':False,
'REQUIRE_PO_TOKEN':True,
'REQUIRE_AUTH':True,
},
# mweb has 'ultralow' formats
@ -256,11 +259,12 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
'client':{
'clientName':'MWEB',
'clientVersion':'2.20241202.07.00',
# mweb does not require PO Token with this UA
# mweb previously did not require PO Token with this UA
'userAgent':'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 16_7_10 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1,gzip(gfe)',
},
},
'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME':2,
'REQUIRE_PO_TOKEN':True,
'SUPPORTS_COOKIES':True,
},
'tv':{
@ -567,9 +571,15 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
Adam Miller
6 months ago