After six months of development, the release of the youtube-dl 2021.12.17 utility has been published, which provides a command line interface for downloading sound and video from YouTube and many other sites and online services, including VK, YandexVideo, RUTV, Rutube, PeerTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Twitter and Steam. The project code is written in Python and distributed in the form of the public domain.
Changes include:
- Templates for extracting signatures from YouTube pages have been updated, addressing issues that arose after changes to YouTube's JavaScript code. Reliability of get_video_info processing has been improved, and a bypass of get_video_info requests has been added, resolving issues with loading videos with age restrictions. The list of alternatives has been updated. servers to access YouTube using the Invidious web frontend.
- On errors, the output of debug data returned by the FFmpeg package is provided.
- Improved support for extracting content from PeerTube servers.
- Pornhub now has the ability to extract videos from Server pornhubthbh7ap3u.onion is now on the Tor anonymous network, with access restrictions based on the user's geographic location and issues with high-quality video streaming resolved.
- Resolved issues when fetching content from appleconnect, periscope, bilibili, umg.de, egghead, tvthek and nrk services.
- Stopped support for the liveleak service.
Source: opennet.ru
