v2.5.5

Bugfixes

• Fix comment replies
• Fix "YouTube blocked the request because the Tor exit node is overutilized." Uses mobile embed page to bypass Tor exit node blockage. Tor routing is now usable again.

Other

• Can now view comment reply threads larger than 500 using a more comments button

v2.5.4

Bugfixes

• Fix some searches broken due to new renderer types
• Fix signature decryption not working due to new base.js minifier rules
• Tor Manager: Change new identity cooldown to 7 seconds instead of 6 to reduce cases where new identity not granted

v2.5.3

Bugfixes

• TorManager: Add delay before subsequent new identity retries, otherwise the IP doesn't change
• fetch_url: Get new identity regardless of page content. Fixes new identity retry not happening for new type of 429 page.

v2.5.2

New Features

• Add embed page for embeds on the web. Check the Iframes option in Redirector to use it.

Bugfixes

• Fix channel search by using new protobuf format
• Improve ytInitialPlayerResponse extraction
• Channels: work around pages > 1 not working when sorting by oldest by using a next button instead. Also add a first and last page button when sorting by newest. Note: videos are slightly out of order when going to far pages.
• Fix youtube mixes: They cannot be viewed on their own, so change url in items to go to the video+playlist instead
• Fix some videos not loading or stopping loading midway through. Range request missing content when Youtube closes the connection.
• Fix exception when video comments are disabled and comments either fail to load or are disabled in settings
• Fix playability errors being displayed in foreign languages (the language of the Tor exit node)
• Add workaround for servers such as uWSGI which rewrite double slashes to single slashes.

Other

• Retry with new identity a maximum of three times instead of just one when the exit node is blocked.

v2.5.1

New Features

• Added box to enter custom video speed

Bugfixes

• Fix failed authentication to Tor control port on some setups that require a blank password
• watch: Fix exception in to_valid_filename when video title is None
• Fix KeyError for playlists with no author
• Fix DNS for youtube.com not being resolved through Tor
• Fix buggy automatic Tor exit node change due to mismatch of time metrics. Should work better now
• Fix protected videos failing to play due to missing player name

Other

• Add direct link for video comments, to make it convenient to open them in a new tab if there is an error
• Display error box in place of video comments when they fail due to an error

v2.5.0

Note for Linux users: This release has a new dependency: stem

New Features

• Add option to skip sponsored segments with SponsorBlock.
• Add setting to change font. Default font is now Arial. Change to "Liberation serif" if you want the old font back.
• Automatically change Tor circuit if current exit node is blocked. Currently, this is only tried once. Retrying three times will be added later.
• Comment replies can be expanded on the page via Javascript rather than having to open in new tab (disable comments.js setting to get old functionality).
• t hotkey to copy video url at current time
• Add setting to disable image routing for imagus extension

Bugfixes

• Fix video height not scaling down when browser window is narrow
• Fix failure to find number of videos on channels.
• Fix add-to-playlist form missing on Youtube playlists
• Add workaround for some cases where video player is missing: retrieve video urls manually via get_video_info.

Other

• Put video title at end of download urls so they have the video title and proper extension when saved (rather than just "videoplayback").
• Organize settings into categories
• Remove broken system for posting comments. Because:
  • Actually using it would result in comments being shadowbanned, even those posted from Youtube's interfacs, because your account gets downranked since no analytics are present so it looks like a bot posting the comment.
  • It's been broken for awhile
• Focus search bar on home page

v2.4.0

New Features

• Add standard Youtube hotkeys such as k to pause video.
• Add expandable video transcript on same page as video which allows jumping to specific times in the video. Also provides contiguous view of transcript to make copying easier.
• Add optional Tor video routing (see note in readme about donations)
• Detect timestamps in video description or comments and make them into links that can jump the video to that time

Bugfixes

• Fix settings parsing in Python 3.8
• Fix channel pages > 1 returning the first page because of Youtube's changes to the ctoken format
• Fix page being pushed down after the video finishes loading (specify video height in html upfront so this won't happen)

Other

• Add python3 shebang
• Don't log noisy caption requests to console
• Add setting for tor_port
• Use Tor video routing instead of Invidious for videos whose URLs are denied access (403) outside of Tor. This should give near-100% reliability compared to the Invidious solution.
• Route all videos through the youtube-local instance (even when not using Tor routing) so that no unique browser information (other than IP address) can be transmitted to googlevideo.

v2.3.2

Bugfixes

• Fix 'Unknown Channel' error again. Currently, viewing page 2 of a channel's videos sorted by oldest is broken on some channels.
• Fix failure to check subscriptions due to invalid time_published

Other

• Don't log noisy thumbnail and avatar requests in the console
• Change generate_release so Windows releases can be generated on Linux using Wine.

v2.3.1

Bugfixes

• Don't use brotli if import fails
• Fix author_url not prefixed in subscriptions page (it had a link to youtube.com rather than staying within youtube-local)
• Fix channel pages and subscriptions failing with 'Unknown error'
• Fix old videos appearing in subscriptions when channel deletes vids
• Support integer-only ?t param
• Use Python 3.7.6 so it will work on Windows Vista

Other

• extract_channel_info: Improve error extraction
• extract_items: Handle case where continuation has multiple [something]Continuation renderers, all of which are junk except one

v2.3.0

New Features

• Add support for &t parameter
• Add video transcript to downloads, generated from the video captions
• Add dialog for copying urls to an external player for livestreams or for livestreams which are over but whose browser-capable URLs aren't ready

Bugfixes

• Fix videos which were originally streamed being marked as live
• Playlist page: Fix error on failure to extract playlist title, such as when the playlist was deleted or doesn't exist
• Extract video info from regular playerResponse if embedded player_response is missing