yt-dlp/yt-dlp 2021.02.04

yt-dlp 2021.02.04

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Changelog:

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.02.04.1
• Date/time formatting in output template:
  • You can use strftime to format date/time fields. Example: %(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s
• Multiple output templates:
  • Separate output templates can be given for the different metadata files by using -o TYPE:TEMPLATE
  • The allowed types are: subtitle|thumbnail|description|annotation|infojson|pl_description|pl_infojson
• [youtube] More metadata extraction for channel/playlist URLs (channel, uploader, thumbnail, tags)
• New option --no-write-playlist-metafiles to prevent writing playlist metadata files
• [audius] Fix extractor
• [youtube_live_chat] Fix parse_yt_initial_data and add fragment_retries
• [postprocessor] Raise errors correctly
• [metadatafromtitle] Fix bug when extracting data from numeric fields
• Fix issue with overwriting files
• Fix "Default format spec" appearing in quiet mode
• [FormatSort] Allow user to prefer av01 over vp9 (The default is still vp9)
• [FormatSort] fix bug where quality had more priority than hasvid
• [pyinst] Automatically detect python architecture and working directory
• Strip out internal fields such as _filename from infojson