node-ytdl-core

Bug Fixes

• fix compatibility with Electron apps (#823) (6d2b64e)

Bug Fixes

• no longer hangs application due to the request cache (#821) (e7ad270)

Bug Fixes

• fix getting info from non-embeddable videos (4167c31)
• fix getting some properties in videoDetails (fc3025d), closes #800 #809

Bug Fixes

• update youtube client version for more stability (#811) (28e00f7)

Bug Fixes

• check for unavailable video after every endpoint request (7f0ab71), closes #804
• fix age restricted videos (84d5118), closes #803
• have videoDetails.age_restricted always be a boolean (5073154)
• make age restriction check more flexible (3ced5ac)
• make checking for rental video language agnostic (32d2300)
• use backup field to provide videoDetails.author fields more consistently (e619e22)

Bug Fixes

• provide better error message for age restricted videos (c0f7e41), closes #791
• update getting info from main json endpoint (7a831c3), closes #789

Bug Fixes

• only make one request when getting a private or unavailable video (cb898cf)

Features

• add author, thumbnails, and isLive to related videos (4a04862), closes #726
• add thumbnails to author object (4012a15)
• warn when there is a ytdl-core update (#779) (5cfc0eb)

Bug Fixes

• fix issues with redirects and decoded streams (ce894a8)
• properly check if video is age restricted (d3a5a69)
• retry endpoint on status code 500 (e1e1af1)

Bug Fixes

• only emit close on last request (db3f16f)
• use backup endpoints when one fails (5a9a1f4), closes #774

Bug Fixes

• emit more detailed error when unable to find html5player file (81e05ce)
• fix race condition causing multiple watch page requests (6ec1242)
• fix race condition with cache causing ytdl-core to hang (60cdb41)
• fix regression for getting info for rental and not yet live videos (4a01794)
• fix write after close error (64d643c), closes #695

Bug Fixes

• check for private video in one request (916c399)
• retry when unable to find content from endpoints (349d3c6), closes #751

Bug Fixes

• fix extracting html5player file (bd8ceca), closes #759
• fix null likes and dislikes on other languages (#761) (9c885fc)

Bug Fixes

• better error message when unable to get video metadata (3b31fe5)
• fix getting formats again (ceca86e), closes #750 #752 #739

Bug Fixes

• request, response events are now forwarded from playlist formats (868213a), closes #671
• fix isLive check for some formats (f3af856)
• fix fps for format 278 (d4b7542)
• show more detailed error when trying to download future livestreams (fa80752)
• sort formats that are playlist or have contentLength higher (0d27df3), closes #163 #705
• types: add a couple more format properties (d58ce69)

Code Refactoring

• fully remove callback support (c483650)
• fully remove deprecated properties (241f73d)

Features

• include adaptive formats that would be overwritten by playlist formats (d2d7f94), closes #671

BREAKING CHANGES

• some formats, particularly in livestreams, may appear twice with the
  same itag, but different urls.
• support for callbacks in getInfo and getBasicInfo has been
  removed, use promises or async/await
• deprecated properties that gave a deprecated warning have been
  removed, these properties were moved into info.videoDetails
• default format sorting has changed. with no options, you may no
  longer get one that has both audio and video on some videos.

Bug Fixes

• retry on {"reload":"now"}, fixes "unable to find identity token" error (659701a), closes #736
• use get_video_info endpoint if watch and embed pages fail (e88537f), closes #735
• types: update a few format properties (db7a7b7)
• add format for itag 300 (56d1411)
• correctly get format url from m3u8 playlists (d0776c2)
• filter out non-media streams from dash manifest (646a5cf)
• get additional format properties from dash manifest (c3594b6)
• get format mime type from dash playlist (30c5f22)

Bug Fixes

• fix unexpected token ) in JSON error (dd582ae), closes #727

Bug Fixes

• use regex to extract player config from embed page (#725) (bcee0ce)

Features

• add ability to disable chunking (#717) (7557608)

Bug Fixes

• make sure total from progress event is number (0ec2675), closes #707
• round subscriber count (4d30a2a), closes #711
• throw more helpful error when downloading format from getBasicInfo() (0ecb0c4), closes #704

Features

• allow both "audioandvideo" and "videoandaudio" as filter (#693) (79f2be2)

Bug Fixes

• fix "Could not find player config" error in age restricted videos (074f7a4), closes #690

Bug Fixes

• fix error about secondaryResult not being iterable (6b051d8), closes #654
• fix total on progress event sometimes being undefined (335bb15), closes #686