4.4.4 (2021-01-20)

Bug Fixes

• fix scraping JSON with escaped backslashes towards end of strings (#862) (540d50b)

4.4.3 (2021-01-12)

Bug Fixes

• fix getting correct videoDetails.lengthSeconds when video is too long (15e7fac), closes #856

4.4.2 (2021-01-10)

Bug Fixes

• fix empty related videos for some user accounts (#853) (6a9ca4f)

4.4.1 (2021-01-06)

Bug Fixes

• catch update check github error (3609aa2), closes #798

4.4.0 (2021-01-03)

Features

• add storyboards to info.videoDetails (#851) (9aa5c55)

4.3.1 (2021-01-02)

Bug Fixes

• fix error being catchable with bad video id (6560c66), closes #121

4.3.0 (2021-01-01)

Features

• add richThumbnails (animated thumbnails) to related videos (#850) (bf06869)

4.2.1 (2020-12-18)

Bug Fixes

• don't use reserved keywords (fa2f47b), closes #834

4.2.0 (2020-12-18)

Features

• add videoDetails.description and videoDetails.thumbnails (8a35d7a)

4.1.7 (2020-12-17)

Bug Fixes

• optimize getting video info by making the watch.html request (eb42b9c), closes #815

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