[build] Automated builds and nightly releases (#6220)

[yt-dlp.git] / README.md

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@@ -311,11 +311,15 @@ ### Standalone Py2Exe Builds (Windows)
 
 ### Related scripts
 
-* **`devscripts/update-version.py [revision]`** - Update the version number based on current date
-* **`devscripts/set-variant.py variant [-M update_message]`** - Set the build variant of the executable
+* **`devscripts/update-version.py`** - Update the version number based on current date.
+* **`devscripts/set-variant.py`** - Set the build variant of the executable.
+* **`devscripts/make_changelog.py`** - Create a markdown changelog using short commit messages and update `CONTRIBUTORS` file.
 * **`devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py`** - Create lazy extractors. Running this before building the binaries (any variant) will improve their startup performance. Set the environment variable `YTDLP_NO_LAZY_EXTRACTORS=1` if you wish to forcefully disable lazy extractor loading.
 
-You can also fork the project on GitHub and run your fork's [build workflow](.github/workflows/build.yml) to automatically build a full release
+Note: See their `--help` for more info.
+
+### Forking the project
+If you fork the project on GitHub, you can run your fork's [build workflow](.github/workflows/build.yml) to automatically build the selected version(s) as artifacts. Alternatively, you can run the [release workflow](.github/workflows/release.yml) or enable the [nightly workflow](.github/workflows/release-nightly.yml) to create full (pre-)releases.
 
 # USAGE AND OPTIONS
 
@@ -457,9 +461,8 @@ ## Video Selection:
     --date DATE                     Download only videos uploaded on this date.
                                     The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format 
                                     [now|today|yesterday][-N[day|week|month|year]].
-                                    E.g. "--date today-2weeks" downloads
-                                    only videos uploaded on the same day two
-                                    weeks ago
+                                    E.g. "--date today-2weeks" downloads only
+                                    videos uploaded on the same day two weeks ago
     --datebefore DATE               Download only videos uploaded on or before
                                     this date. The date formats accepted is the
                                     same as --date