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Maintainers

This file lists the maintainers of yt-dlp and their major contributions. See the Changelog for more details.

You can also find lists of all contributors of yt-dlp and authors of youtube-dl

Core Maintainers

Core Maintainers are responsible for reviewing and merging contributions, publishing releases, and steering the overall direction of the project.

You can contact the core maintainers via maintainers@yt-dlp.org.

This is NOT a support channel. Open an issue if you need help or want to report a bug.

coletdjnz

gh-sponsor

  • Overhauled the networking stack and implemented support for requests and curl_cffi (--impersonate) HTTP clients
  • Reworked the plugin architecture to support installing plugins across all yt-dlp distributions (exe, pip, etc.)
  • Maintains support for YouTube
  • Added and fixed support for various other sites

bashonly

  • Rewrote and maintains the build/release workflows and the self-updater: executables, automated/nightly/master releases, --update-to
  • Overhauled external downloader cookie handling
  • Added --cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers
  • Overhauled and maintains support for sites like Youtube, Vimeo, Twitter, TikTok, etc
  • Added support for sites like Dacast, Kick, Loom, SproutVideo, Triller, Weverse, etc

Grub4K

gh-sponsor ko-fi

  • --update-to, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
  • Reworked internals like traverse_obj, various core refactors and bugs fixes
  • Implemented proper progress reporting for parallel downloads
  • Improved/fixed/added Bundestag, crunchyroll, pr0gramm, Twitter, WrestleUniverse etc

sepro

  • UX improvements: Warn when ffmpeg is missing, warn when double-clicking exe
  • Code cleanup: Remove dead extractors, mark extractors as broken, enable/apply ruff rules
  • Improved/fixed/added ArdMediathek, DRTV, Floatplane, MagentaMusik, Naver, Nebula, OnDemandKorea, Vbox7 etc

Inactive Core Maintainers

pukkandan

ko-fi gh-sponsor

  • Founder of the fork
  • Lead Maintainer from 2021-2024

shirt

ko-fi

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

Ashish0804

ko-fi

  • 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

Triage Maintainers

Triage Maintainers are frequent contributors who can manage issues and pull requests.

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