Releases

v14 30 August 2026 · 416bcf0

• Allow specifying the background colour used to choose the tint colour in the chives video entity with the --background flag.

  For example:

  $ # A video on a white background has a brownish-pink tint colour
  $ yt-dlp_alexwlchan "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittj60VE6bU" --background="#ffffff"
  {"entity": {"poster": {"tint_colour": "#a98376", …}, …}, …}
  
  $ # A video on a dark background has a near-white tint colour
  $ yt-dlp_alexwlchan "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittj60VE6bU" --background="#222222"
  {"entity": {"poster": {"tint_colour": "#fcfbf8", …}, …}, …}

v13 21 August 2026 · aa2a3a9

• Update to yt-dlp 2026.8.19.

v12 1 August 2026 · 5af6529

• Update to yt-dlp 2026.7.4.

v11 18 April 2026 · 3f30c9d

• Remove tracking parameters from YouTube URLs in the output.

v10 28 March 2026 · 6f5f6e3

• Update to yt-dlp 2026.3.17.

##v9 - 2026-02-28

• Add a video entity created by chives to the output, for ease of interop with my static sites.

v8 27 February 2026 · 97b4186

• Update to yt-dlp 2026.2.21.

v7 5 February 2026 · 7c7a390

• Update to yt-dlp 2026.2.4.

v6 8 January 2026 · 334c370

• Fix a mistake in the YouTube settings to ignore AI upscaled videos.

v5 24 December 2025 · cc7d9bc

• Fix a bug where downloading automatic subtitles on YouTube videos without any spoken audio would return an HTTP 429 error.
• Change YouTube download settings to ignore AI upscaled videos.

v4 17 December 2025 · 2be02e9

• Clean up URL-unsafe characters in filenames.
• Update to yt-dlp 2025.12.8.

v3 23 October 2025 · 186269d

• Update to yt-dlp 2025.10.22.

v2 19 October 2025 · eb5ad6a

• Download avatars to the same folder as the video/thumbnail/subtitles, rather than just printing the avatar URL in the output.
• Add the video ID as a suffix in the downloaded filenames.
• Update to yt-dlp 2025.10.14.

v1 5 October 2025 · 4b36185

Initial release using yt-dlp 2025.9.26, which supported YouTube and Instagram.