Collaborators

This is a list of the collaborators of the project and their major contributions. See the Changelog for more details.

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pukkandan

• Owner of the fork

shirt

• Multithreading (-N) and aria2c support for fragment downloads
• Support for media initialization and discontinuity in HLS
• The self-updater (-U)

coletdjnz

• Improved plugin architecture
• Rewrote the networking infrastructure, implemented support for requests
• YouTube improvements including: age-gate bypass, private playlists, multiple-clients (to avoid throttling) and a lot of under-the-hood improvements
• Added support for new websites YoutubeWebArchive, MainStreaming, PRX, nzherald, Mediaklikk, StarTV etc
• Improved/fixed support for Patreon, panopto, gfycat, itv, pbs, SouthParkDE etc

Ashish0804 _^[Inactive]

• Added support for new websites BiliIntl, DiscoveryPlusIndia, OlympicsReplay, PlanetMarathi, ShemarooMe, Utreon, Zee5 etc
• Added playlist/series downloads for Hotstar, ParamountPlus, Rumble, SonyLIV, Trovo, TubiTv, Voot etc
• Improved/fixed support for HiDive, HotStar, Hungama, LBRY, LinkedInLearning, Mxplayer, SonyLiv, TV2, Vimeo, VLive etc

bashonly

• --update-to, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
• --cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers, external downloader cookie handling overhaul
• Added support for new websites like Dacast, Kick, NBCStations, Triller, VideoKen, Weverse, WrestleUniverse etc
• Improved/fixed support for Anvato, Brightcove, Reddit, SlidesLive, TikTok, Twitter, Vimeo etc

Grub4K

• --update-to, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
• Reworked internals like traverse_obj, various core refactors and bugs fixes
• Implemented proper progress reporting for parallel downloads
• Improved/fixed/added Bundestag, crunchyroll, pr0gramm, Twitter, WrestleUniverse etc

sepro

• UX improvements: Warn when ffmpeg is missing, warn when double-clicking exe
• Code cleanup: Remove dead extractors, mark extractors as broken, enable/apply ruff rules
• Improved/fixed/added ArdMediathek, DRTV, Floatplane, MagentaMusik, Naver, Nebula, OnDemandKorea, Vbox7 etc