yt-dlp/yt-dlp 2021.07.21

yt-dlp 2021.07.21

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Changelog:

• Add option --cookies-from-browser to load cookies from a browser by mbway
  • Usage: --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE_NAME_OR_PATH]
  • Also added --no-cookies-from-browser
  • To decrypt chromium cookies, keyring is needed for UNIX and pycryptodome for Windows
• Add option --exec-before-download
• Add field live_status
• [FFmpegMetadata] Add language of each stream and some refactoring
• [douyin] Add extractor by pukkandan, pyx
• [pornflip] Add extractor by mzbaulhaque
• [youtube] Extract data from multiple clients by pukkandan, colethedj
  • player_client now accepts multiple clients
  • Default player_client = android,web
    • This uses twice as many requests, but avoids throttling for most videos while also not losing any formats
  • Music clients can be specifically requested and is enabled by default if music.youtube.com
  • Added player_client=ios (Known issue: formats from ios are not sorted correctly)
  • Add age-gate bypass for android and ios clients
• [youtube] Extract more thumbnails
  • The thumbnail URLs are hard-coded and their actual existence is tested lazily
  • Added option --no-check-formats to not test them
• [youtube] Misc fixes
  • Improve extraction of livestream metadata by pukkandan, krichbanana
  • Hide live dash formats since they can't be downloaded anyway
  • Fix authentication when using multiple accounts by colethedj
  • Fix controversial videos when requested via API by colethedj
  • Fix session index extraction and headers for non-web player clients by colethedj
  • Make --extractor-retries work for more errors
  • Fix sorting of 3gp format
  • Sanity check chapters (and refactor related code)
  • Make parse_time_text and _extract_chapters non-fatal
  • Misc cleanup and bug fixes by colethedj
• [youtube:tab] Fix channels tab
• [youtube:tab] Extract playlist availability by colethedj
• [youtube:comments] Move comment extraction to new API by colethedj
• [youtube:comments] Fix is_favorited, improve like_count parsing by colethedj
• [BravoTV] Improve metadata extraction by kevinoconnor7
• [crunchyroll:playlist] Force http
• [yahoo:gyao:player] Relax _VALID_URL by nao20010128nao
• [nebula] Authentication via tokens from cookie jar by hheimbuerger, TpmKranz
• [RTP] Fix extraction and add subtitles by fstirlitz
• [viki] Rewrite extractors and add extractor-arg video_types to vikichannel by zackmark29, pukkandan
• [vlive] Extract thumbnail directly in addition to the one from Naver
• [generic] Extract previously missed subtitles by fstirlitz
• [generic] Extract everything in the SMIL manifest and detect discarded subtitles by fstirlitz
• [embedthumbnail] Fix _get_thumbnail_resolution
• [metadatafromfield] Do not detect numbers as field names
• Fix selectors all, mergeall and add tests
• Errors in playlist extraction should obey --ignore-errors
• Fix bug where original_url was not propagated when _type=url
• Revert "Merge webm formats into mkv if thumbnails are to be embedded (#173)"
  • This was wrongly checking for write_thumbnail
• Improve extractor_args parsing
• Rename NOTE in -F to MORE INFO since it's often confused to be the same as format_note
• Add only_once param for write_debug and report_warning
• [extractor] Allow extracting multiple groups in _search_regex by fstirlitz
• [utils] Improve traverse_obj
• [utils] Add variadic
• [utils] Improve js_to_json comment regex by fstirlitz
• [webtt] Fix timestamps
• [compat] Remove unnecessary code
• [doc] fix default of multistreams