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

shirt

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

coletdjnz

Improved plugin architecture
Rewrote the networking infrastructure, implemented support for requests
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

bashonly

--update-to, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
--cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers, external downloader cookie handling overhaul
Added support for new websites like Dacast, Kick, NBCStations, Triller, VideoKen, Weverse, WrestleUniverse etc
Improved/fixed support for Anvato, Brightcove, Reddit, SlidesLive, TikTok, Twitter, Vimeo etc

Grub4K

--update-to, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
Reworked internals like traverse_obj, various core refactors and bugs fixes
Implemented proper progress reporting for parallel downloads
Improved/fixed/added Bundestag, crunchyroll, pr0gramm, Twitter, WrestleUniverse etc