yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds 2023.03.03.195451

yt-dlp nightly 2023.03.03.195451

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Important changes

• A new release type has been added!
  • nightly builds will be made after each push, containing the latest fixes (but also possibly bugs).
  • When using --update/-U, a release binary will only update to its current channel (either stable or nightly).
  • The --update-to option has been added allowing the user more control over program upgrades (or downgrades).
  • --update-to can change the release channel (stable, nightly) and also upgrade or downgrade to specific tags.
  • Usage: --update-to CHANNEL, --update-to TAG, --update-to CHANNEL@TAG
• YouTube throttling fixes!

Core changes

• Add option --break-match-filters by pukkandan
• Fix --break-on-existing with --lazy-playlist by pukkandan
• Fix bug in 29cb20bd563c02671b31dd840139e93dd37150a1 by pukkandan
• dependencies
  • Simplify Cryptodome by pukkandan
• jsinterp
  • Handle Date at epoch 0 by pukkandan
• plugins
  • Don't look in .egg directories by pukkandan
• update
  • Add option --update-to, including to nightly (#6220) by bashonly, Grub4K, pukkandan
• utils
  • lenientjsondecoder: Parse unclosed objects by pukkandan
  • popen: Shim undocumented text_mode property by Grub4K

Extractor changes

• Fix DRM detection in m3u8 by pukkandan
• generic
  • Detect manifest links via extension by bashonly
  • Handle basic-auth when checking redirects by pukkandan
• googledrive
  • Fix some audio by pukkandan
• iprima
  • Fix extractor (#6291) by std-move
• mediastream
  • Improve WinSports support (#6401) by bashonly
• ntvru
  • Extract HLS and DASH formats (#6403) by bashonly
• tencent
  • Add more formats and info (#5950) by Hill-98
• yle_areena
  • Extract non-Kaltura videos (#6402) by bashonly
• youtube
  • Construct dash formats with range query by pukkandan (With fixes in f34804b by bashonly, coletdjnz)
  • Detect and break on looping comments (#6301) by coletdjnz
  • Extract channel view_count when /about tab is passed by pukkandan

Misc. changes

• build
  • Add cffi as a dependency for yt_dlp_linux by bashonly
  • Automated builds and nightly releases (#6220) by bashonly, Grub4K
  • Sign SHA files and release public key by Grub4K
• cleanup
  • Fix Changelog by pukkandan
  • jsinterp: Give functions names to help debugging by pukkandan
  • Miscellaneous: 4815bbf, 5b28cef by pukkandan
• devscripts
  • Script to generate changelog (#6220) by Grub4K