This is a list of the collaborators of the project and their major contributions. See the Changelog for more details.
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- Owner of the fork
- Multithreading (
-N) and aria2c support for fragment downloads - Support for media initialization and discontinuity in HLS
- The self-updater (
-U)
- YouTube improvements including: age-gate bypass, private playlists, multiple-clients (to avoid throttling) and a lot of under-the-hood improvements
- Added support for downloading YoutubeWebArchive videos
- Added support for new websites Zee5, MXPlayer, DiscoveryPlusIndia, ShemarooMe, Utreon etc
- Added playlist/series downloads for TubiTv, SonyLIV, Voot, HotStar etc