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youtube-dl v2020.05.08 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-05-08 // almost 4 years ago

  • Core

    • [downloader/http] Request last data block of exact remaining size
    • [downloader/http] Finish downloading once received data length matches
      expected

    • [extractor/common] Use compat_cookiejar_Cookie for _set_cookie to always
      ✅ ensure cookie name and value are bytestrings on python 2 (#23256, #24776)

    • [compat] Introduce compat_cookiejar_Cookie

    • 👍 [utils] Improve cookie files support

      • Add support for UTF-8 in cookie files
      • Skip malformed cookie file entries instead of crashing (invalid entry
        length, invalid expires at)

    Extractors

    • [youtube] Improve signature cipher extraction (#25187, #25188)
    • [iprima] Improve extraction (#25138)

    • [uol] Fix extraction (#22007)

    • 👍 [orf] Add support for more radio stations (#24938, #24968)

    • [dailymotion] Fix typo

    • 🚚 [puhutv] Remove no longer available HTTP formats (#25124)