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

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

coletdjnz

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

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Download live from start to end for YouTube
Added support for new websites AbemaTV, mildom, PixivSketch, skeb, radiko, voicy, mirrativ, openrec, whowatch, damtomo, 17.live, mixch etc
Improved/fixed support for fc2, YahooJapanNews, tver, iwara etc

bashonly

--cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers
Added support for new websites Genius, Kick, NBCStations, Triller, VideoKen etc
Improved/fixed support for Anvato, Brightcove, Instagram, ParamountPlus, Reddit, SlidesLive, TikTok, Twitter, Vimeo etc