2024.08.15.1

Changes in this release:

• Exposes possibility for passing credentials to yt-dlp while extraction process

2024.08.15

Changes in this release:

• Adds support for passing cookies to yt-dlp through download

2024.04.14

Changes in this release:

• Fix #290
• Fix other issues with saving the final file with special characters in the song name
• Other bug fixes

v2023.11.26

Changes in this release:

• Adds a fix for escaping a regex issue. Fixes #283
• Adds support for extracting metadata from youtube as a fallback (if everything else fails). Can be used with --on-meta-error "youtube". Fixes #272
• Adds support for advanced directory path in --output-dir flag. Fixes #282
• Adds a new progress bar (change in downloader-cli) to make the output look more pleasing.
• Other bug fixes

v2023.07.27

Changes in this release:

• Adds support for passing filename as an argument from the CLI through --filename. Fixes #273
• Fixes ampersands issue by replacing them with and. Fixes #266
• Fixes searching queries with + in them. Fixes #265
• Fixes issue with savings songs that had special characters in the metadata title field. Fixes #256

v2023.02.28

Changes in this release:

• Adds support for ammending meta search by using a -2 option when prompted for a choice. Thanks to @maxbryarsmansell
• Bumps simber dependency version to 0.2.6
• Other fixes

v2022.12.25

Changes in this release

• Fixes in completion.py that leads to better auto-completion on shell. Thanks to @xgqt
• Adds a change to extract the name from the youtube URL
• Support for skipping metadata properly using -1
• Handle ignore-errors properly when songs are not present
• Fixes issue to use user passed song properly for searching metadata
• Adds option to skip converting opus files using ffmpeg
• Handle error if adding metadata fails
• Other bug fixes

v2022.03.16

Changes in this release:

• Move to yt-dlp from youtube-dl.
• Log level of yt-dlp will be set according to log level of ytmdl
• Fix issue of corrupted autocompletes being generated if there is no config file
• Refactor to use console_scripts. This should fix issues of ytmdl not found on Windows.
• Add support to accept yt-dlp config path. This allows users to pass custom flags to ytdlp directly.
• Add fix for extracting the /watch part properly from the URL
• Lots of internal bug fixes

Special thanks to @pukkandan for making changes in the source of yt-dlp to allow features like config path from ytmdl.

October Release

Changes in this release

• Added support for an output directory with the flag --output-dir. Thanks to @TheCatster.
• Add support to treat URL's in the passed list as URL's and automatically extract the song name.
• Disable progress bar when --quiet is passed. Helps in redirecting the output of ytmdl to some file or suppressing it altogether.
• Filter out asterisk (*) from filenames in order to get rid of conflict with OS while renaming the song or moving it.
• Other minor fixes.

July Release

Changes in this release

• Add functionality to ignore chapters and download as a whole with the --ignore-chapters flag. Thanks to @yantonov
• Support for Spotify as a metadata provider. (Finally added!)
• Add option to specify which market spotify searches in using SPOTIFY_COUNTRY flag.
• Add support to pass Spotify track ID from the commandline with the spotify-id flag.
• Move to using youtube-search-python for searching YouTube for the results. (Is much more reliable!)
• Fix issue of dry cleanup failing if Dynamic directory is used in the config.
• Other small bug fixes.

NOTE: From now on, the PyPI releases will be automated!