This is a list of the collaborators of the project and their major contributions. See the Changelog for more details.

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• Owner of the fork

• Multithreading (-N) and aria2c support for fragment downloads
• Support for media initialization and discontinuity in HLS
• The self-updater (-U)

• Improved plugin architecture
• YouTube improvements including: age-gate bypass, private playlists, multiple-clients (to avoid throttling) and a lot of under-the-hood improvements
• Added support for new websites YoutubeWebArchive, MainStreaming, PRX, nzherald, Mediaklikk, StarTV etc
• Improved/fixed support for Patreon, panopto, gfycat, itv, pbs, SouthParkDE etc

• Added support for new websites BiliIntl, DiscoveryPlusIndia, OlympicsReplay, PlanetMarathi, ShemarooMe, Utreon, Zee5 etc
• Added playlist/series downloads for Hotstar, ParamountPlus, Rumble, SonyLIV, Trovo, TubiTv, Voot etc
• Improved/fixed support for HiDive, HotStar, Hungama, LBRY, LinkedInLearning, Mxplayer, SonyLiv, TV2, Vimeo, VLive etc

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• Download live from start to end for YouTube
• Added support for new websites AbemaTV, mildom, PixivSketch, skeb, radiko, voicy, mirrativ, openrec, whowatch, damtomo, 17.live, mixch etc
• Improved/fixed support for fc2, YahooJapanNews, tver, iwara etc

• --update-to, automated release, nightly builds
• --cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers
• Added support for new websites Genius, Kick, NBCStations, Triller, VideoKen etc
• Improved/fixed support for Anvato, Brightcove, Instagram, ParamountPlus, Reddit, SlidesLive, TikTok, Twitter, Vimeo etc

• --update-to, automated release, nightly builds
• Rework internals like traverse_obj, various core refactors and bugs fixes
• Helped fix crunchyroll, Twitter, wrestleuniverse, wistia, slideslive etc