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 reporting a feature request
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 **%(version)s** ([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)
27 Provide an explanation of your site feature request in an arbitrary form.
28 Please make sure the description is worded well enough to be understood, see [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient).
29 Provide any additional information, any suggested solutions, and as much context and examples as possible
30 placeholder: WRITE DESCRIPTION HERE
38 If your feature request involves an existing yt-dlp command, provide the complete verbose output of that command.
39 Add the `-vU` flag to **your** command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`), copy the WHOLE output and insert it below.
40 It should look similar to this:
42 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
43 [debug] Portable config file: yt-dlp.conf
44 [debug] Portable config: ['-i']
45 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, stdout utf-8, stderr utf-8, pref cp1252
46 [debug] yt-dlp version 2021.12.01 (exe)
47 [debug] Python version 3.8.8 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
48 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1, ffprobe 3.0.1
49 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, keyring, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
51 yt-dlp is up to date (2021.12.01)