1# CHANGELOG
2
3## v14 - 2026-08-30
4
5*   Allow specifying the background colour used to choose the tint colour in the chives video entity with the `--background` flag.
6
7    For example:
8
9    ```console
10    $ # A video on a white background has a brownish-pink tint colour
11    $ yt-dlp_alexwlchan "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittj60VE6bU" --background="#ffffff"
12    {"entity": {"poster": {"tint_colour": "#a98376", …}, …}, …}
13
14    $ # A video on a dark background has a near-white tint colour
15    $ yt-dlp_alexwlchan "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittj60VE6bU" --background="#222222"
16    {"entity": {"poster": {"tint_colour": "#fcfbf8", …}, …}, …}
17    ```
18
19## v13 - 2026-08-21
20
21*   Update to yt-dlp 2026.8.19.
22
23## v12 - 2026-08-01
24
25*   Update to yt-dlp 2026.7.4.
26
27## v11 - 2026-04-18
28
29*   Remove tracking parameters from YouTube URLs in the output.
30
31## v10 - 2026-03-28
32
33*   Update to yt-dlp 2026.3.17.
34
35##v9 - 2026-02-28
36
37*   Add a video entity created [by chives](https://alexwlchan.net/projects/chives/) to the output, for ease of interop with my static sites.
38
39## v8 - 2026-02-27
40
41*   Update to yt-dlp 2026.2.21.
42
43## v7 - 2026-02-05
44
45*   Update to yt-dlp 2026.2.4.
46
47## v6 - 2026-01-08
48
49*   Fix a mistake in the YouTube settings to ignore AI upscaled videos.
50
51## v5 - 2025-12-24
52
53*   Fix a bug where downloading automatic subtitles on YouTube videos without any spoken audio would return an HTTP 429 error.
54*   Change YouTube download settings to ignore [AI upscaled videos](https://alexwlchan.net/notes/2025/ignore-ai-scaled-videos/).
55
56## v4 - 2025-12-17
57
58*   Clean up URL-unsafe characters in filenames.
59*   Update to yt-dlp 2025.12.8.
60
61## v3 - 2025-10-23
62
63*   Update to yt-dlp 2025.10.22.
64
65## v2 - 2025-10-19
66
67*   Download avatars to the same folder as the video/thumbnail/subtitles, rather than just printing the avatar URL in the output.
68*   Add the video ID as a suffix in the downloaded filenames.
69*   Update to yt-dlp 2025.10.14.
70
71## v1 - 2025-10-05
72
73Initial release using yt-dlp 2025.9.26, which supported YouTube and Instagram.