yt-dlp/yt-dlp 2021.03.01

yt-dlp 2021.03.01

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Changelog:

• Allow specifying path in --external-downloader
• Add option --sleep-requests to sleep b/w requests
• Add option --extractor-retries to retry on known extractor errors
• Extract comments only when needed
• --get-comments doesn't imply --write-info-json if -J, -j or --print-json are used
• Fix get_executable_path by shirt
• [youtube] Retry on more known errors than just HTTP-5xx
• [youtube] Fix inconsistent webpage_url
• [tennistv] Fix format sorting
• [bilibiliaudio] Recognize the file as audio-only
• [hrfensehen] Fix wrong import
• [viki] Fix viki play pass authentication by RobinD42
• [readthedocs] Improvements by shirt
• [hls] Fix bug with m3u8 format extraction
• [hls] Enable --hls-use-mpegts by default when downloading live-streams
• [embedthumbnail] Fix bug with deleting original thumbnail
• [build] Fix completion paths, zsh pip completion install by hseg
• [ci] Disable download tests unless specifically invoked
• Cleanup some code and fix typos