streamlink/streamlink 2.3.0

Streamlink 2.3.0

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Release highlights:

• Implemented: new plugin URL matching API (#3814, #3821)
  Third-party plugins which use the old API will still be resolved, but those plugins will have to upgrade in the future. See the documentation's deprecations page for more information.
• Implemented: HLS media initialization section (fragmented MPEG-4 streams) (#3828)
• Upgraded: requests to >=2.26.0,<3 and set it to ==2.25.1 on Windows (#3864, #3880)
• Fixed: YouTube channel URLs, premiering live streams, added API fallback (#3847, #3873, #3809)
• Removed plugins: canalplus (#3841), dommune (#3818), liveedu (#3845), periscope (#3813), powerapp (#3816), rtlxl (#3842), streamingvideoprovider (#3843), teleclubzoom (#3817), tigerdile (#3819)

Installation

See the detailed installation instructions on Streamlink's website.

Supporting Streamlink

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Hakkin Lain <Hakkin@users.noreply.github.com> (1):
      stream.hls: set fallback playlist reload time to 6 seconds (#3887)

back-to <backto@protonmail.ch> (16):
      plugins.youtube: added API fallback
      plugins.rtvs: fixed livestream
      plugins.nos: Fixed Livestream and VOD
      plugins.vlive: fixed livestream (#3820)
      plugins.Tigerdile: removed
      plugins.Dommune: removed
      plugins.PowerApp: removed
      plugins.TeleclubZoom: removed (#3817)
      plugins.cdnbg: Fix regex and referer issues
      plugins.rtlxl: removed
      plugins.CanalPlus: removed
      plugins.liveedu: removed
      plugins.Streamingvideoprovider: removed
      plugin.api: update useragents
      plugins.youtube: detect Livestreams with 'isLive'
      plugins.nimotv: use 'mStreamPkg'

bastimeyer <mail@bastimeyer.de> (30):
      plugins.youtube: translate embed_live URLs
      plugins.periscope: remove plugin
      plugins.mediaklikk: rewrite plugin
      stream.hls: add type hints and refactor
      stream.hls: implement media initialization section
      plugin: new matchers API
      plugins: update protocol plugins
      plugins: update basic plugins
      plugins: update plugins with URL capture groups
      plugins: update plugins with spec. can_handle_url
      plugins: update plugins with multiple URL matchers
      plugins: update plugins with URL translations
      session: resolve deprecated plugins
      plugins.zdf_mediathek: refactor plugin, drop HDS
      docs: add deprecations page
      plugins.tv8: remove API, find HLS via simple regex
      plugins.youtube: find videoId on channel pages
      chore: replace issue templates with forms
      chore: fix issue forms checklist
      tests: remove mock from dev dependencies
      vendor: set requests to >=2.26.0,<3
      tests: temporarily skip broken tests on win32
      tests: fix unnecessary hostname lookup in cli_main
      docs: fix headline anchors on deprecations page
      vendor: downgrade requests to 2.25.1 on Windows
      tests: refactor TestMixinStreamHLS
      streams.segmented: refactor worker and writer
      streams.segmented: refactor reader
      streams.hls: refactor worker
      streams.hls: fix playlist_reload_time

gustaf <gustaf@protonmail.ch> (1):
      plugins.tv4play: fix plugin URL regex

vinyl-umbrella <61788251+vinyl-umbrella@users.noreply.github.com> (1):
      plugins.openrectv: update HLS URLs (#3850)