2 description: Request a new functionality unrelated to any particular site or extractor
3 labels: [triage, enhancement]
10 Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp:
12 - label: I'm requesting a feature unrelated to a specific site
14 - label: I've looked through the [README](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme)
16 - label: I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version **2022.07.18** ([update instructions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#update)) or later (specify commit)
18 - label: I've searched the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar issues **including closed ones**. DO NOT post duplicates
20 - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
25 label: Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood
26 description: See [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient)
27 placeholder: Provide any additional information, any suggested solutions, and as much context and examples as possible
33 label: Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
35 - label: Run **your** yt-dlp command with **-vU** flag added (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`)
36 - label: Copy the WHOLE output (starting with `[debug] Command-line config`) and insert it below
40 label: Complete Verbose Output
42 It should start like this:
44 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'test:youtube']
45 [debug] Portable config "yt-dlp.conf": ['-i']
46 [debug] Encodings: locale cp65001, fs utf-8, pref cp65001, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
47 [debug] yt-dlp version 2022.07.18 [9d339c4] (win32_exe)
48 [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0
49 [debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
50 [debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
51 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-106550-g072101bd52-20220410 (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-106624-g391ce570c8-20220415, phantomjs 2.1.1
52 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3
54 [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
55 Latest version: 2022.07.18, Current version: 2022.07.18
56 yt-dlp is up to date (2022.07.18)