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v0.27.1: User Agent Improvements & Dependency Bumps

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@FurqanHun FurqanHun released this 24 Jul 14:02
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This patch release updates core dependencies and significantly improves how the yt-dlp user agent is handled to prevent anti-bot blocking.

Features & Improvements

  • User Agent Handling: The ytdlp_useragent value in config.toml now defaults to the default keyword. This ensures that whenever the internal default user agent is updated in the codebase, users will automatically receive the update without needing to manually edit their config files.
  • Smart Config Migration: Added a load-time migration that automatically detects legacy hardcoded Firefox user agent strings in existing config.toml files and upgrades them to the new dynamic default keyword, while safely preserving any explicitly customized user agents.
  • Optimized Anti-Bot Settings: Switched the internal default user agent to a modern Windows Firefox signature (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:153.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/153.0). This is the optimal configuration for scraping tools like yt-dlp to blend in as standard traffic and avoid CAPTCHAs or throttling.

Dependencies & Chores

  • Bumped tokio to v1.53
  • Bumped tokio-tungstenite to v0.30
  • Bumped skim to v5.5.0 (Unlocks potential future TUI improvements like --hide-nth and mouse double-click bindings)
  • Bumped futures-util to v0.3
  • Assorted code hygiene and documentation improvements.
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