# NEW FEATURES
-The major new features from the latest release of [blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) are:
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+* Based on **youtube-dl 2021.06.06 [commit/379f52a](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/379f52a4954013767219d25099cce9e0f9401961)** and **youtube-dlc 2020.11.11-3 [commit/98e248f](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commit/98e248faa49e69d795abc60f7cdefcf91e2612aa)**: You get all the features and patches of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) in addition to the latest [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
* **[SponsorBlock Integration](#sponsorblock-options)**: You can mark/remove sponsor sections in youtube videos by utilizing the [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) API
* **[Format Sorting](#sorting-formats)**: The default format sorting options have been changed so that higher resolution and better codecs will be now preferred instead of simply using larger bitrate. Furthermore, you can now specify the sort order using `-S`. This allows for much easier format selection than what is possible by simply using `--format` ([examples](#format-selection-examples))
-* **Merged with youtube-dl [commit/379f52a](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/379f52a4954013767219d25099cce9e0f9401961)**: (v2021.06.06) You get all the latest features and patches of [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) in addition to all the features of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)
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* **Merged with animelover1984/youtube-dl**: You get most of the features and improvements from [animelover1984/youtube-dl](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl) including `--write-comments`, `BiliBiliSearch`, `BilibiliChannel`, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, playlist infojson etc. Note that the NicoNico improvements are not available. See [#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.
* **Youtube improvements**:
* **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use `aria2c` as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats
-* **New extractors**: 17live, 3speak, amazonstore, animelab, audius, bandcampmusic, bannedvideo, biliintl, bitwave.tv, blackboardcollaborate, cam4, cgtn, chingari, ciscowebex, damtomo, discoveryplus.in, douyin, epicon, euscreen, fancode, filmmodu, gab, gedi, gettr, gopro, gotostage, gronkh, koo, manototv, mediaite, mediaklikk, mediasetshow, mediathek, microsoftstream, mildom, mirrativ, mlsscoccer, mtv.it, musescore, mxplayershow, n1, nebula, nfhsnetwork, novaplay, nzherald, olympics replay, on24, openrec, parlview-AU, peloton, planetmarathi, pluto.tv, polsatgo, polskieradio, pornflip, projectveritas, radiko, radiokapital, radlive, raiplayradio, rcs, rctiplus, saitosan, sciencechannel, shemaroome, skynews-AU, skynews-story, sovietscloset, startv, streamanity, telemundo, theta, theta, tokentube, tv2huseries, ukcolumn, utreon, veo, vidiolive, vidiopremier, voicy, vupload, whowatch, wim.tv, wppilot, youtube webarchive, zee5, zen.yandex
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-* **New playlist extractors**: bilibili categories, eroprofile albums, hotstar series, hungama albums, newgrounds user, niconico search/users, paramountplus series, patreon user, peertube playlist/channels, roosterteeth series, sonyliv series, tiktok user, trovo channels, voot series
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-* **Fixed/improved extractors**: 7plus, 9now, afreecatv, akamai, aljazeera, amcnetworks, animalplanet, archive.org, arte, atv, bbc, bilibili, bitchute, bravotv, camtube, cbc, cda, ceskatelevize, chingari, comedycentral, coub, crackle, crunchyroll, curiositystream, diynetwork, dw, eroprofile, facebook, francetv, funimation, globo, hearthisatie, hidive, hotstar, hungama, imdb, ina, instagram, iprima, itv, iwara, kakao, la7, linkedinlearning, linuxacadamy, mediaset, mediasite, motherless, mxplayer, nbcolympics, ndr, newgrounds, niconico, nitter, nova, nrk, nuvid, oreilly, paramountplus, parliamentlive, patreon, pbs, peertube, plutotv, polskieradio, pornhub, reddit, redtube, rmcdecouverte, roosterteeth, rtp, rumble, saml verizon login, skyit, sonyliv, soundcloud, southparkde, spankbang, spreaker, streamable, tagesschau, tbs, tennistv, tenplay, tiktok, tubi, tv2, tv2hu, tv5mondeplus, tvp, twitcasting, vh1, viafree, videa, vidio, vidme, viewlift, viki, vimeo, viu, vk, vlive, vrt, wakanim, xhamster, yahoo
+* **New and fixed extractors**: Many new extractors have been added and a lot of exisiting ones have been fixed. See the [changelog](Changelog.md) or the [list of supported sites](supportedsites.md)
* **New MSOs**: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN
* **Output template improvements**: Output templates can now have date-time formatting, numeric offsets, object traversal etc. See [output template](#output-template) for details. Even more advanced operations can also be done with the help of `--parse-metadata` and `--replace-in-metadata`
-* **Other new options**: `--print`, `--sleep-requests`, `--convert-thumbnails`, `--write-link`, `--force-download-archive`, `--force-overwrites`, `--break-on-reject` etc
+* **Other new options**: Many new options have been added such as `--print`, `--wait-for-video`, `--sleep-requests`, `--convert-thumbnails`, `--write-link`, `--force-download-archive`, `--force-overwrites`, `--break-on-reject` etc
-* **Improvements**: Regex and other operators in `--match-filter`, multiple `--postprocessor-args` and `--downloader-args`, faster archive checking, more [format selection options](#format-selection) etc
+* **Improvements**: Regex and other operators in `--match-filter`, multiple `--postprocessor-args` and `--downloader-args`, faster archive checking, more [format selection options](#format-selection), merge multi-video/audio etc
* **Plugins**: Extractors and PostProcessors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details
* **Self-updater**: The releases can be updated using `yt-dlp -U`
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See [changelog](Changelog.md) or [commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes
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-**PS**: Some of these changes are already in youtube-dlc, but are still unreleased. See [this](Changelog.md#unreleased-changes-in-blackjack4494yt-dlc) for details
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-If you are coming from [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl), the amount of changes are very large. Compare [options](#options) and [supported sites](supportedsites.md) with youtube-dl's to get an idea of the massive number of features/patches [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) has accumulated.
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### Differences in default behavior
Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtube-dlc:
--flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
only list them
--no-flat-playlist Extract the videos of a playlist
+ --wait-for-video MIN[-MAX] Wait for scheduled streams to become
+ available. Pass the minimum number of
+ seconds (or range) to wait between retries
+ --no-wait-for-video Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)
--mark-watched Mark videos watched (even with --simulate).
Currently only supported for YouTube
--no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (default)
specify range: "--playlist-items
1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13
- --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
--min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
--max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
--download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
archive file. Record the IDs of all
downloaded videos in it
+ --no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
+ --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
--break-on-existing Stop the download process when encountering
a file that is in the archive
--break-on-reject Stop the download process when encountering
a file that has been filtered out
+ --break-per-input Make --break-on-existing and --break-on-
+ reject act only on the current input URL
+ --no-break-per-input --break-on-existing and --break-on-reject
+ terminates the entire download queue
--skip-playlist-after-errors N Number of allowed failures until the rest
of the playlist is skipped
- --no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
## Download Options:
-N, --concurrent-fragments N Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative
--load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
(created with the "--write-info-json"
option)
- --cookies FILE File to read cookies from and dump cookie
- jar in
+ --cookies FILE Netscape formatted file to read cookies
+ from and dump cookie jar in
--no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file
(default)
--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]
--sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters
for, separated by commas. Available
- categories are all, sponsor, intro, outro,
- selfpromo, interaction, preview,
- music_offtopic. You can prefix the category
- with a "-" to exempt it. See
- https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/index.php/Segment_Categories
- for description of the categories. Eg:
- --sponsorblock-query all,-preview
+ categories are all, default(=all), sponsor,
+ intro, outro, selfpromo, preview, filler,
+ interaction, music_offtopic, poi_highlight.
+ You can prefix the category with a "-" to
+ exempt it. See [1] for description of the
+ categories. Eg: --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview
+ [1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories
--sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from
the video file, separated by commas. If a
category is present in both mark and
remove, remove takes precedence. The syntax
and available categories are the same as
- for --sponsorblock-mark
+ for --sponsorblock-mark except that
+ "default" refers to "all,-filler" and
+ poi_highlight is not available
--sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
The title template for SponsorBlock
chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark.
- `playlist_uploader` (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
- `playlist_uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader
- `webpage_url` (string): A URL to the video webpage which if given to yt-dlp should allow to get the same result again
+ - `webpage_url_basename` (string): The basename of the webpage URL
+ - `webpage_url_domain` (string): The domain of the webpage URL
- `original_url` (string): The URL given by the user (or same as `webpage_url` for playlist entries)
Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
* `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
* `include_live_dash`: Include live dash formats (These formats don't download properly)
* `comment_sort`: `top` or `new` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
-* `max_comments`: Maximum amount of comments to download (default all)
-* `max_comment_depth`: Maximum depth for nested comments. YouTube supports depths 1 or 2 (default)
+* `max_comments`: Limit the amount of comments to gather. Comma-seperated list of integers representing `max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread`. Default is `all,all,all,all`.
+ * E.g. `all,all,1000,10` will get a maximum of 1000 replies total, with up to 10 replies per thread. `1000,all,100` will get a maximum of 1000 comments, with a maximum of 100 replies total.
+* `max_comment_depth` Maximum depth for nested comments. YouTube supports depths 1 or 2 (default)
+ * **Deprecated**: Set `max-replies` to `0` or `all` in `max_comments` instead (e.g. `max_comments=all,all,0` to get no replies)
#### youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
* `skip`: One or more of `webpage` (skip initial webpage download), `authcheck` (allow the download of playlists requiring authentication when no initial webpage is downloaded. This may cause unwanted behavior, see [#1122](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/1122) for more details)
#### vikichannel
* `video_types`: Types of videos to download - one or more of `episodes`, `movies`, `clips`, `trailers`
+#### youtubewebarchive
+* `check_all`: Try to check more at the cost of more requests. One or more of `thumbnails`, `captures`
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NOTE: These options may be changed/removed in the future without concern for backward compatibility
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