yt-dlp/yt-dlp 2021.04.11

yt-dlp 2021.04.11

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Changelog:

• Add option --convert-thumbnails (only jpg currently supported)
• Format selector mergeall to download and merge all formats
• Pass any field to --exec using similar syntax to output template
• Choose downloader for each protocol using --downloader PROTO:NAME
  • Alias --downloader for --external-downloader
  • Added native as an option for the downloader
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/4fb25ff (except vimeo)
• [DiscoveryPlusIndia] Add DiscoveryPlusIndiaShowIE by Ashish0804
• [NFHSNetwork] Add extractor by llacb47
• [nebula] Add extractor (watchnebula.com) by hheimbuerger
• [nitter] Fix extraction of reply tweets and update instance list by B0pol
• [nitter] Fix thumbnails by B0pol
• [youtube] Fix thumbnail URL
• [youtube] Parse API parameters from initial webpage by colethedj
• [youtube] Extract comments' approximate timestamp by colethedj
• [youtube] Fix alert extraction
• [bilibili] Fix uploader
• [utils] Add datetime_from_str and datetime_add_months by colethedj
• Run some postprocessors before actual download
• Improve argument parsing for -P, -o, -S
• Fix some m3u8 not obeying --allow-unplayable-formats
• Fix default of dynamic_mpd
• Deprecate --all-formats, --include-ads, --hls-prefer-native, --hls-prefer-ffmpeg
• [documentation] Improvements