yt-dlp/yt-dlp 2021.06.01

yt-dlp 2021.06.01

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IMPORTANT

This will be the last release that supports python versions < 3.6

Once you update to this version, -U will be blocked for Windows XP and for UNIX systems without python 3.6+

Edit: Version 2021.06.09 also has Windows XP Support despite python 3.4 support being dropped after this release. See the release description for details

Changelog

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/d495292
• Pre-check archive and filters during playlist extraction
• Handle Basic Auth user:pass in URLs by hhirtz and pukkandan
• [archiveorg] Add YoutubeWebArchiveIE by colethedj and alex-gedeon
• [fancode] Add extractor by rmsmachine
• [patreon] Support vimeo embeds by rhsmachine
• [Saitosan] Add new extractor by llacb47
• [ShemarooMe] Add extractor by Ashish0804 and pukkandan
• [telemundo] Add extractor by king-millez
• [SonyLIV] Add SonyLIVSeriesIE and subtitle support by Ashish0804
• [Hotstar] Add HotStarSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [Voot] Add VootSeriesIE by Ashish0804
• [vidio] Support login and premium videos by MinePlayersPE
• [fragment] When using -N, do not keep the fragment content in memory
• [ffmpeg] Download and merge in a single step if possible
• [ThumbnailsConvertor] Support conversion to png and make it the default by louie-github
• [VideoConvertor] Generalize with remuxer and allow conditional recoding
• [EmbedThumbnail] Embed in mp4/m4a using mutagen by tripulse and pukkandan
• [EmbedThumbnail] Embed if any thumbnail was downloaded, not just the best
• [EmbedThumbnail] Correctly escape filename
• [update] replace self without launching a subprocess in windows
• [update] Block further update for unsupported systems
• Refactor __process_playlist by creating LazyList
• Write messages to stderr when both quiet and verbose
• Sanitize and sort playlist thumbnails
• Remove None values from info.json
• [extractor] Always prefer native hls downloader by default
• [extractor] Skip subtitles without URI in m3u8 manifests by hheimbuerger
• [extractor] Functions to parse socket.io response as json by pukkandan and llacb47
• [extractor] Allow note=False when extracting manifests
• [utils] Escape URLs in sanitized_Request, not sanitize_url
• [hls] Disable external downloader for webtt
• [youtube] /live URLs should raise error if channel is not live
• [youtube] Bug fixes
• [zee5] Fix m3u8 formats' extension
• [ard] Allow URLs without - before id by olifre
• [cleanup] YoutubeDL._match_entry
• [cleanup] Refactor updater
• [cleanup] Refactor ffmpeg convertors
• [cleanup] setup.py