What’s New

yt-dlp 2026.01.29

2026.01.29

yt-dlp 2026.01.29

Added
  • Add --compat-options 2025
  • Add --format-sort-reset option
  • Support Deno installed via Python package
  • Add tz_offset parameter to unified_timestamp
  • Support --wait-for-video in bigo extractor
Changed
  • Accept float values for --sleep-subtitles
  • Bypass interactive format selection if no formats are found
  • Recognize more srt types in mimetype2ext
  • Bump random_user_agent versions
Fixed
  • Fix --parse-metadata when TO is a single field name
  • Fix concurrent formats downloading to stdout
  • Fix interactive format/video selection when downloading to stdout
  • Fix decode_packed_codes missing key handling
  • Fix devalue calling reviver on cached value
  • Prevent false positives for octals in js_to_json
  • Fix prioritization of Youtube URL matching
  • Fix archive.org metadata extraction
  • Fix bandcamp weekly extractor

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A description of the various files is in the README

The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to these and other licenses, all of which are compiled in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt


Core changes
Extractor changes
Networking changes
Misc. changes
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