A description of the various files is in the README
Important changes
- Beginning with this release, yt-dlp's Python dependencies must be installed using the
defaultgroup
If you're installing yt-dlp with pip/pipx or requiring yt-dlp in your own Python project, you'll need to specifyyt-dlp[default]if you want to also install yt-dlp's optional dependencies (which were previously included by default). Read more - The minimum required Python version has been raised to 3.9
Python 3.8 reached its end-of-life on 2024.10.07, and yt-dlp has now removed support for it. As an unfortunate side effect, the officialyt-dlp.exeandyt-dlp_x86.exebinaries are no longer supported on Windows 7. Read more
Changelog
Core changes
- Expand paths in
--plugin-dirs(fix 0f593dca9fa995d88eb763170a932da61c8f24dc) (#11334) by bashonly - Remove Python 3.8 support (#11321) by bashonly
Extractor changes
- cnn: Fix extractor (#10185) by kylegustavo, seproDev
- facebook: Fix formats extraction (#11343) by kclauhk
- generic: Do not impersonate by default (fix edfd095b1917701c5046bd51f9542897c17d41a7) (#11336) by bashonly
- vimeo: Fix API retries (fix c1c9bb4adb42d0d93a2fb5d93a7de0a87b6ba884) (#11351) by bashonly