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Changelog

streamlink 7.0.0 (2024-11-04)

• BREAKING: dropped support for EOL Python 3.8 (Win 7/8 are now unsupported) (#6230)

• BREAKING/CLI: removed deprecated config file and plugin config file paths (#6149)

• BREAKING/CLI: removed deprecated plugin sideloading paths (#6150)

• BREAKING/CLI: removed deprecated --force-progress CLI argument (#6196)

• BREAKING/CLI: removed deprecated stream-type related CLI arguments (#6232)

  • --hls-segment-attempts

  • --hls-segment-threads

  • --hls-segment-timeout

  • --hls-timeout

  • --http-stream-timeout

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated stream-type related session options (#6232)

  • hls-segment-attempts

  • hls-segment-threads

  • hls-segment-timeout

  • hls-timeout

  • dash-segment-attempts

  • dash-segment-threads

  • dash-segment-timeout

  • dash-timeout

  • http-stream-timeout

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated import paths for HTTPSession and HTTPAdapters (#6274)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated import paths for NoPluginError, NoStreamsError, PluginError and Plugin (#6274)

• BREAKING/packaging: dropped “32 bit” Windows x86 and Linux AppImage i686 builds (#6052)

• Removed: flawed implementation of VLC-specific player variables (#6251, #6253)

• Deprecated: --verbose-player CLI argument in favor of --player-verbose (#6227)

• Deprecated: --fifo CLI argument in favor of --player-fifo (#6227)

• Added: warning messages for deprecated/suppressed plugin arguments (#6240, #6249)

• Fixed: errors on missing stdin file descriptor (#6239)

• Fixed: --interface not having an effect on custom HTTPAdapters (#6223)

• Updated plugins:

  • afreeca: renamed to soop, overhauled plugin and deprecated old plugin CLI arguments (#6247, #6257)

  • ruv: rewritten and fixed plugin (#6262)

  • tv3cat: updated plugin matchers (#6242)

• Docs: updated documentation of various CLI arguments (#6226, #6255, #6225)

• Chore: updated typing annotations (PEP 563, PEP 585, PEP 604, PEP 613) (#6218)

• Chore: reformatted the whole code base using ruff (#6260)

• Build: bumped trio dependency to >=0.25.0,<1 on Python >= 3.13 (#6244)

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streamlink 6.11.0 (2024-10-01)

• Deprecated: --record-and-pipe=... in favor of --stdout --record=... (and explicitly disallowed --stdout --output=...) (#6194)

• Fixed: error when setting both --http-no-ssl-verify and --http-disable-dh (#6205)

• Fixed: --player-passthrough without a resolved default --player (#6207)

• Fixed: error when stdout/stderr file descriptors are missing (#6197)

• Updated: webbrowser API’s Chrome devtools protocol to latest version (#6211)

• Updated plugins:

  • crunchyroll: removed plugin (#6179)

  • dlive: fixed missing stream URL signature (#6171)

  • facebook: removed plugin (#6199)

  • mildom: removed plugin (#6198)

  • tvrby: removed plugin (#6202)

  • tvrplus: removed plugin (#6203)

  • twitch: fixed client-integrity token acquirement (#6211)

  • vk: fixed API params and validation schema (#6178)

  • webtv: removed plugin (#6172)

  • zengatv: removed plugin (#6174)

  • zhanqi: removed plugin (#6173)

• Tests: removed pytest-asyncio dependency (#6208)

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streamlink 6.10.0 (2024-09-06)

• Added: official support for Python 3.13 (#6133)

• Added: --logformat and --logdateformat (#6138, #6144)

• Added: --ffmpeg-loglevel (#6161)

• Fixed: continuous logging errors when stdout stream was closed on the reading end (#6142)

• Fixed: HTTP proxy config being used when getting webbrowser API’s websocket IPC address (#6130)

• Updated plugins:

  • booyah: removed plugin (#6162)

  • douyin: fixed validation schema (#6140)

  • galatasaraytv: removed plugin (#6163)

  • idf1: removed plugin (#6164)

  • linelive: removed plugin (#6165)

  • pandalive: fixed missing HTTP headers (#6148)

  • tiktok: fixed schema of inaccessible streams (#6160)

  • youtube: disabled VODs, as they are currently non-functional (#6135)

• Docs: bumped sphinx-design >=0.5.0,<=0.6.1, enabling sphinx >=8.0.0 (#6137)

• Tests: fixed pytest-asyncio warnings (#6143)

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streamlink 6.9.0 (2024-08-12)

• Added: streamlink.plugin.api.webbrowser subpackage with the aws_waf module (#6102, #6118)

• Added: max_buffer_size kwarg to CDPClient.session() (#6101)

• Added: webbrowser User-Agent header override in headless mode (#6114)

• Changed: default value of --webbrowser-headless from True to False (#6116)

• Changed: unicode characters to be unescaped in JSON output, if possible (#6080)

• Fixed: potential character encoding issues in Streamlink’s logger (#6081)

• Updated plugins:

  • nicolive: updated plugin matcher (#6127)

  • okru: fixed validation schema (#6085)

  • radionet: removed plugin (#6091)

  • sportschau: fixed plugin (HLS streams with packed audio streams remain unsupported) (#6104)

  • tiktok: fixed room ID validation schema (#6106)

  • tvp: added support for sport.tvp.pl (#6097)

  • twitch: added --twitch-force-client-integrity (#6113)

  • twitch: fixed broken client-integrity token decoding+parsing (#6113)

  • twitch: removed the headless=False override (#6117)

  • vimeo: removed error messages for unsupported DASH streams (#6128)

  • vk: fixed validation schema (#6096)

  • vtvgo: resolved AWS Web Application Firewall bot detection (#6102)

  • yupptv: fixed plugin, added ad filtering (#6093)

• Docs: added webbrowser API metadata to plugin descriptions (#6115)

• Docs: updated build-dependencies and the furo theme (#6126)

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streamlink 6.8.3 (2024-07-11)

Patch release:

• Updated plugins:

  • tiktok: new plugin (#6073)

  • twitch: fixed channel names with uppercase characters (#6071)

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streamlink 6.8.2 (2024-07-04)

Patch release:

• Updated plugins:

  • douyin: new plugin (#6059)

  • huya: fixed stream URLs (#6058)

  • pluzz: fixed API URL, stream tokens and validation schemas (#6048)

  • twitch: added info log messages about ad break durations (#6051)

  • twitch: fixed clip URLs (#6045)

  • twitch: fixed discontinuity warning spam in certain circumstances (#6022)

  • vidio: fixed stream tokens, added metadata (#6057)

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streamlink 6.8.1 (2024-06-18)

Patch release:

• Fixed: failed HTTPAdapter tests on some OpenSSL configurations (#6040, #6042)

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streamlink 6.8.0 (2024-06-17)

Release highlights:

• Added: sha256 checksum to log message when side-loading plugins (#6023)

• Added: SSLContextAdapter to streamlink.session.http (#6024)

• Deprecated: old re-exports in streamlink.plugins package (#6005)

• Updated plugins:

  • bilibili: fixed validation schema for offline channels (#6032)

  • chzzk: fixed channels without content (#6002)

  • cnbce: new plugin (#6029)

  • kick: new plugin (#6012, #6021, #6024)

  • tf1: added authentication via --tf1-email and --tf1-password (#5983)

  • tvp: fixed live streams (#6037)

  • welt: fixed live streams (#6011)

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streamlink 6.7.4 (2024-05-12)

Patch release:

• Refactored: CLI errors (#5958)

• Updated plugins:

  • afreeca: updated stream qualities (#5953)

  • afreeca: added --afreeca-stream-password (#5952)

  • chzzk: new plugin (#5731)

  • nownews: removed plugin (#5961)

  • turkuvaz: fixed HLS streams (#5946)

• Docs: clarified plugin request rules (#5949)

• Build: fixed build issues on Windows (#5990)

• Build: removed exceptiongroup dependency on Python >= 3.11 (#5987)

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streamlink 6.7.3 (2024-04-14)

Patch release:

• Fixed: file output paths being able to exceed max file/directory name length (#5921, #5925)

• Fixed: propagation of KeyboardInterrupt/SystemExit in streamlink.webbrowser (#5930)

• Fixed: compatibility with exceptiongroup<=1.1.1 (#5930)

• Fixed: plugin.api.validate.parse_qsd input type validation (#5932)

• Updated plugins:

  • mangomolo: fixed missing referer header and updated URL matcher (#5923, #5926)

  • pluto: rewritten plugin (#5910)

  • showroom: fixed geo-block check preventing stream access (#5911)

  • vkplay: updated URL matcher (#5908)

• Tests: fixed test failure when running tests from the bdist build directory (#5933)

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streamlink 6.7.2 (2024-03-23)

Patch release:

• Build: reverted trio version requirement bump (#5902)

• Build: fixed incorrect pytest version requirement (#5901)

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streamlink 6.7.1 (2024-03-19)

Patch release:

• Fixed: CLI download progress missing the last data chunk (#5887)

• Fixed: compatibility with trio>=0.25 (#5895)

• Updated plugins:

  • tv3cat: fixed plugin and added VODs (#5890)

  • vimeo: fixed event streams and embedded player URLs (#5892, #5899)

• Build: bumped trio dependency version requirement to >=0.25,<1 (#5895)

• Build: added exceptiongroup dependency (#5895)

• Tests: fixed root logger level not being reset (#5888, #5897)

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streamlink 6.7.0 (2024-03-09)

Release highlights:

• Added: repeatable --plugin-dir CLI argument (#5866)

• Deprecated: --plugin-dirs CLI argument with comma separated paths (#5866)

• Fixed: independent encryption status of HLS initialization sections (#5861)

• Fixed: objects of default session options being shared between sessions (#5875)

• Updated plugins:

  • bloomberg: fixed data regex (#5869)

  • ltv_lsm_lv: fixed player ID retrieval, removed custom HLS implementation (#5858)

  • mangomolo: new plugin (#5852)

  • ustvnow: updated matcher (#5881)

  • vimeo: fixed optional DASH streams of live events (#5854)

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streamlink 6.6.2 (2024-02-20)

Patch release:

• Fixed: missing plugin override log message in non-editable installs (#5844)

• Fixed: incorrect setuptools min. version in build requirements (#5842)

• Updated plugins:

  • afreeca: fixed broadcast number regex (#5847)

  • afreeca: added support for stream metadata (#5849)

  • hiplayer: removed media.gov.kw matcher (#5848)

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streamlink 6.6.1 (2024-02-17)

Patch release:

• Fixed: plugin arguments in --help output (#5838)

• Docs: removed empty plugin sections in docs and man page (#5838)

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streamlink 6.6.0 (2024-02-16)

Release highlights:

• Implemented: lazy plugins loading (#5793, #5822)
  Streamlink’s built-in plugins will now be loaded on demand when resolving input URLs.
  This improves initial loading times and reduces total memory consumption.

• Refactored: Streamlink session module (and related)

  • Moved: streamlink.session into a sub-package (#5807)

  • Moved: streamlink.plugin.api.http_session to streamlink.session.http (#5807)

  • Refactored: Streamlink class internals (#5807, #5814)

  • Deprecated: Streamlink.{get,load}_plugins() methods (#5818)

  • Deprecated: direct imports of HTTPSession and imports from streamlink.plugin.api.http_session (#5818)

• Refactored: streamlink.utils.args module (#5778, #5781, #5815)

• Updated plugins:

  • aloula: fixed missing HTTP headers (#5792)

  • foxtr: removed plugin (#5827)

  • huya: fixed stream URLs (#5785)

  • nowtvtr: new plugin (#5827)

  • qq: removed plugin (#5806)

  • rtbf: removed plugin (#5801)

• Tests: improved overall test execution time (#5799, #5805)

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streamlink 6.5.1 (2024-01-16)

Patch release:

• Fixed: file output path log message on py38/py39 (#5728)

• Improved: warning message when using quoted player paths (in config files) (#5757)

• Updated plugins:

  • artetv: updated API response validation schema (#5774)

  • atresplayer: updated API response validation schema (#5742)

  • bigo: reimplemented plugin (#5754)

  • bilibili: fixed stream resolving issues on channels with custom layouts (#5771)

  • huya: added stream CDN availability check (#5745)

  • twitch: disabled Chromium headless mode on client-integrity token acquirement (#5758)

  • vidio: fixed missing API request cookies (#5762)

  • zattoo: fixed audio/video sync issues (#5739)

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streamlink 6.5.0 (2023-12-16)

Release highlights:

• Fixed: UserWarning being emitted by recent pycountry releases when parsing certain language codes (#5722)

• Fixed: trace logging setup in WebsocketClient implementation (#5705)

• Updated plugins:

  • btv: switched to HLS multivariant playlists (#5698)

  • gulli: rewritten plugin (#5725)

  • twitch: removed/disabled --twitch-disable-reruns (#5704)

  • twitch: enabled check_streams HLS option, to ensure early stream availability without querying the delayed Twitch API (#5708)

  • twitch: removed unnecessary Twitch API error messages for offline channels (#5709)

  • wasd: removed plugin (#5711)

• Build: added support for versioningit >=3.0.0, with backward compatibility (#5721)

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streamlink 6.4.2 (2023-11-28)

Patch release:

• Fixed: HLS segment maps being written to the output multiple times (#5689)

• Fixed plugins:

  • bilibili: rewritten plugin (#5693)

  • piczel: updated HLS URLs (#5690)

  • ssh101: fixed stream URL retrieval (#5686)

• Docs: added missing Cache API docs (#5688)

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streamlink 6.4.1 (2023-11-22)

Patch release:

• Fixed: libxml2 2.12.0 compatibility (#5682)

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streamlink 6.4.0 (2023-11-21)

Release highlights:

• Added: missing support for dynamic DASH manifests with SegmentLists (#5654, #5657)

• Added: warning log message when skipping DASH segments between manifest reloads (#5659)

• Added plugins: nasaplus (#5664)

• Updated plugins:

  • raiplay: added VOD support with authentication --raiplay-email / --raiplay-password / --raiplay-purge-credentials (#5662)

  • telemadrid: fixed XPath query (#5653)

  • tvp: fixed tvp.info (#5645)

  • youtube: fixed video ID retrieval (#5673)

• Docs: added validation schema API docs and API guide (#5652, #5655)

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streamlink 6.3.1 (2023-10-26)

Patch release:

• Fixed plugins:

  • welt: rewritten plugin (#5637)

• Build: fixed tests when running from sdist (#5636)

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streamlink 6.3.0 (2023-10-25)

Release highlights:

• Added: warning log message when skipping HLS segments between playlist reloads (#5607)

• Refactored: internals of segmented stream implementations (base classes, HLS, DASH)

  • Added: base Segment dataclass and made segmented streams inherit from it (#5594)

  • Moved: modules into sub-packages (import paths of public APIs remain the same) (#5593)

  • Renamed: various non-public HLS class methods/attributes and functions (#5526)

  • Removed: Sequence segment wrapper from HLS implementation (#5526)

• Fixed: DASH manifest not respecting the minBufferTime (#5610)

• Fixed: URL matchers of HLS/DASH protocol plugins (#5616, #5617)

• Fixed: bandwidth parsing issue in HLS multivariant playlists (#5619)

• Fixed plugins:

  • dlive: fixed live streams and fixed VODs (#5622, #5623)

  • goodgame: rewritten plugin using goodgame API v4 (#5586, #5597)

  • mitele: updated gbx API calls from v2 to v3 (#5624)

  • twitch: fixed error handling of geo-restricted or inaccessible streams (#5591)

• Removed plugins:

  • ntv: static stream URLs (#5604)

  • vlive: offline (#5599)

• Build: dropped versioningit build-requirement when building from sdist tarball (version string has always been built-in while versioningit performed a no-op) (#5632)

• Packaging: added missing shell completions build-script to sdist (#5625)

• Docs: clarified section about building from source (sdist/git vs. GitHub tarballs) (#5633)

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streamlink 6.2.1 (2023-10-03)

Patch release:

• Added: official support for Python 3.12 (#5576)

• Fixed plugins: goodgame (#5557), nos (#5565), pandalive (#5569), wwenetwork (#5559)

• Build: added custom setuptools build-backend override which fixes issues with building Windows-specific wheels (#5558)

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streamlink 6.2.0 (2023-09-14)

Release highlights:

• Added: --player-env CLI argument (#5535)

• Added: OpenSSL version to debug log output (#5506)

• Updated: segmented stream internals and typing (#5504, #5507)

• Updated: internal HLS tag parsing setup and parser state (#5513, #5521)

• Fixed: HLS streams not ending on playlist reload with endlist tag and no new segments (#5538)

• Fixed: missing file encoding when writing a log file (#5532)

• Added plugins: piaulizaportal (#5508)

• Fixed plugins: hiplayer (#5534), nicolive (#5529), pluto (#5551)

• Docs: added list of supported metadata variables for each plugin (#5517, #5519)

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streamlink 6.1.0 (2023-08-16)

Release highlights:

• Added: --hls-segment-queue-threshold for being able to configure when to stop HLS streams early on missing segments (#5478)

• Fixed: config file parsing issues and made parsing argument values more strict (#5484)

• Fixed: race condition when reading and validating the FFmpeg version string (#5480)

• Fixed plugins: atresplayer (#5477)

• Docs: added code examples for the removal of Streamlink.{g,s}et_plugin_option (#5497)

• Build: fixed entry-points config issues with setuptools 68.1.0 (#5500)

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streamlink 6.0.1 (2023-08-02)

Patch release:

• Added: missing options argument to Streamlink.streams() (#5469)

• Fixed: migration docs and the 6.0.0 changelog of the Streamlink.{g,s}et_plugin_option() removal (#5471)

• Fixed plugins: huya (#5467)

• Docs: updated build-dependencies and the furo theme (#5464, #5465)

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streamlink 6.0.0 (2023-07-20)

Breaking changes:

• BREAKING: dropped support for Python 3.7 (#5302)

• BREAKING: turned --player CLI argument into a player-path-only argument (#5305, #5310)
  Its value won’t be interpreted as a command line string anymore, so paths with whitespace don’t require additional quotation. Custom player arguments now always need to be set via --player-args.

• BREAKING: removed deprecated {filename} variable from --player-args (#5310)

• BREAKING/API: removed support for the deprecated Plugin.can_handle_url() / Plugin.priority() classmethods (#5403)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated compatibility wrapper for the Plugin constructor (#5402)

• BREAKING/API: removed Streamlink.{g,s}et_plugin_option() (#5033)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated global plugin arguments (#5033)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated streamlink.plugin.api.validate.text (#5404)

• BREAKING/API: fixed/changed signatures of HTTPStream, HLSStream and HLSStream.parse_variant_playlist() (#5429)

• BREAKING/packaging: new signing key 44448A298D5C3618 (#5449)

Release highlights:

• Added: experimental streamlink.webbrowser API for extracting data from websites using the system’s Chromium-based web browser (#5380, #5381, #5386, #5388, #5410)
  See the --webbrowser, --webbrowser-executable and related CLI arguments for more

• Added: client-integrity token support to Twitch plugin using the streamlink.webbrowser API (currently only used as a fallback when acquiring the access token fails) (#5414)

• Added: {playertitleargs} variable to --player-args (#5310)

• Added: with_{video,audio}_only parameters to DASHStream.parse_manifest() (#5340)

• Changed: HLS streams to stop early on missing EXT-X-ENDLIST tag when polling the playlist doesn’t yield new segments for twice its targetduration value (#5330)

• Fixed: regex of optional protocol plugin parameters (#5367)

• Fixed plugins: lrt (#5444), mediavitrina (#5376), mitele (#5436), NRK (#5408), pluzz (#5369), rtvs (#5443), showroom (#5390), turkuvaz (#5374), vimeo (#5335), youtube (#5351)

• Docs: added migrations page for further guidance on resolving breaking changes (#5433)

• Docs: split up, updated and improved API docs (#5398)

• Build: moved project metadata to pyproject.toml (PEP621) (#5438)

• Dependencies: added trio (#5386), trio-websocket and typing-extensions (#5388), and removed importlib_metadata (#5302)

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streamlink 5.5.1 (2023-05-08)

Patch release:

• Fixed: shifting time offset when reloading HLS playlists (#5321)

• Fixed: import of create_urllib3_context on urllib3 <2.0.0 (#5333)

• Fixed: Vimeo plugin (#5331)

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streamlink 5.5.0 (2023-05-05)

Release highlights:

• Added: --no-config (#5314)

• Added: --player-external-http-interface (#5295)

• Fixed: M3U8 attribute parsing issue (#5307)

• Fixed: various minor plugin issues (#5291, #5299, #5306)

• Build: bumped urllib3 to >=1.26.0,<3 and fixed compatibility issues with urllib3 >=2.0.0 (#5326, #5325)

• Docs: bumped furo theme to 2023.03.27 (#5301)

• Docs: bumped build dependencies sphinx >=5.0.0,<7, myst-parser >=1.0.0,<2 and sphinx-design >=0.4.1,<1 (#5301)

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streamlink 5.4.0 (2023-04-12)

Release highlights:

• Added: --progress CLI argument and deprecated --force-progress (#5268)

• Added: --dash-manifest-reload-attempts and respective session option (#5208)

• Improved: DASH segment availability/download logging (#5214, #5235)

• Refactored: DASH parser + stream implementation (#5221, #5224, #5225, #5244, #5248)

• Fixed: DASH segment template numbers and availability times (#5213, #5217, #5233)

• Fixed: DASH manifest mediaPresentationDuration and period duration (#5226)

• Fixed: DASH manifest suggestedPresentationDelay (#5215)

• Fixed: various DASH manifest parsing bugs (#5247)

• Fixed: DASH timeline IDs not being unique (#5199)

• Fixed: DASH substreams not having synced timelines (#5262)

• Fixed: queued DASH segments being downloaded after closing the stream (#5236, #5237)

• Fixed: incorrect min/max values of certain numeric CLI arguments (#5239)

• Fixed: all naive datetime objects and made them timezone-aware (#5210)

• Fixed: TV5monde plugin with new implementation (#5206)

• Fixed: Steam plugin missing CDN auth data in stream URLs (#5222)

• Fixed: Vimeo plugin’s playerConfig regex (#5227)

• Fixed: VKplay plugin’s validation schema (#5251)

• Fixed: Twitcasting plugin with new implementation (#5255)

• Tests: fixed setuptools/pkg_resources DeprecationWarnings (#5167, #5230)

• Tests: fixed ResourceWarnings due to stale file handles (#5242)

• Added plugins: indihometv (#5266), telemadrid (#5212)

• Removed plugins: nbcnews (#5279), useetv (#5266)

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streamlink 5.3.1 (2023-02-25)

Patch release:

• Fixed: http-trust-env session option name (--http-ignore-env CLI parameter) (#5193)

• Fixed: missing byterange attribute of initialization segments in DASH streams (#5189)

• Fixed: broken BaseURL context in DASH streams (#5194)

• Fixed: detection of certain encrypted DASH streams (#5196)

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streamlink 5.3.0 (2023-02-18)

Release highlights:

• Project meta: dropped Open Collective sponsoring platform and updated the project’s README, as well as the docs’ donation/support page (#5143)

• Deprecated: global plugin arguments (#5140)

• Fixed: muxed streams sometimes missing data at the end (#5162)

• Fixed: named pipes sometimes not being cleaned up properly (#5162)

• Fixed: new YouTube channel URLs not being matched (#5137)

• Fixed: KeyError when accessing certain YouTube URLs (#5139)

• Fixed: M3U8 attribute parsing (#5125)

• Fixed: NimoTV streams stopping after a few seconds (#5147)

• Fixed: delimiter of http-query-params session option string setter (#5176)

• Fixed: sdist/bdist missing some files (#5119, #5141)

• Docs: fixed Streamlink.set_option() docstring (#5176)

• Docs: improved CLI tutorial (#5157)

• Docs: improved install page (#5178)

• Removed plugins: funimationnow (#5128), schoolism (#5127)

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streamlink 5.2.1 (2023-01-23)

No code changes.
Please see the changelog of the 5.2.0 release.

• Reverted: PyPI deploy script changes (#5116)

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streamlink 5.2.0 (2023-01-23)

Release highlights:

• Added: new stream read/output loop, to be able to detect player process termination while stream output is paused (ad filtering, etc.) (#5024)

• Added: support for named plugin matchers (#5103, #5107)

• Added: Python warnings capturing to streamlink logger and added StreamlinkWarning (#5072)

• Changed: deprecation log messages to warnings, and added missing warnings for previously deprecated things (#5072)

• Deprecated: usage of validate.text in favor of str (#5090)

• Improved: Streamlink session option getters/setters (#5076)

• Fixed: incorrect inheritance of NoPluginError and removed unneeded url parameter from NoStreamsError (#5088)

• Fixed: error handling in Twitch access token acquirement (#5011)

• Fixed: dogan plugin (#5053)

• Fixed: ceskatelevize plugin, added sport/sportplus/decko (#5063)

• Added plugins: mixcloud (#5096), vkplay (#5054)

• Removed plugins: orf_tvthek (#5104)

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streamlink 5.1.2 (2022-12-03)

Patch release:

• Fixed: ValueError being raised while muxing streams (#4998)

• Fixed: ad filtering bug in Twitch plugin (#5007)

• Fixed: SVTPlay plugin (#4994)

• Fixed: TVP plugin (#4997)

• Docs: updated Linux AppImage and Windows builds install sections (#4999)

• Docs: fixed man page links in HTML docs (#4995)

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streamlink 5.1.1 (2022-11-23)

Patch release:

• Changed: WebsocketClient to use CA certificates bundled by certifi (#4977)

• Fixed: SegmentedStreamReader not properly getting closed (#4972)

• Fixed: CLI argument links throughout the entire docs (#4989)

• Build: added certifi as a direct dependency (#4977)

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streamlink 5.1.0 (2022-11-14)

Release highlights:

• Added: debug log messages of the FFmpeg version in use (#4861)
  Checking the FFmpeg version can be disabled via --ffmpeg-no-validation

• Added: --twitch-access-token-param for changing access token API request params (#4952)

• Added: new log level all (#4941)

• Updated: sbscokr plugin and removed the --sbscokr-id parameter (#4865)

• Updated: Twitch authentication docs (#4940, #4956)

• Fixed: broken --twitch-disable-ads mid-roll ad filering (#4942)

• Fixed: incorrect module name for trace logs on Python 3.11 (#4863)

• Fixed: bloomberg plugin (#4919)

• Fixed: dailymotion plugin (#4910)

• Fixed: raiplay plugin (#4851)

• Fixed: tvp plugin (#4905)

• Fixed: vinhlongtv plugin (#4850)

• Fixed: various other plugin issues (see full changelog)

• Removed plugins: egame (#4866)

• Build: added urllib3 as a direct dependency and set it to >=1.26.0 (#4950)

• Build: added pytest-asyncio to dev-requirements (#4861)

Full changelog

streamlink 5.0.1 (2022-09-22)

Patch release:

• Fixed: truncation of relative paths in progress output on Windows (#4830)

• Fixed: mitele plugin’s validation schema (#4839)

• Fixed: infinite loop in rtve plugin (#4840)

Full changelog

streamlink 5.0.0 (2022-09-16)

Breaking changes:

• BREAKING: removed avconv (libav) from FFmpeg fallback list (#4826)

• BREAKING/API: removed Plugin.bind() and changed the signature of the Plugin class constructor (#4768)
  A compatibility wrapper for these interface changes has temporarily been added in order to keep third-party plugin implementations working.
  Please see the deprecation docs for more details.

• BREAKING/API: changed the return value of Session.resolve_url() (#4768)
  Please see the deprecation docs for more details.

• BREAKING/API: removed HTTPSession.parse_*() methods (#4803)

Release highlights:

• Added: official support for Python 3.11 (#4806)

• Added: --player-external-http-continuous (#4739)

• Added: file path to progress output (--output, --record, etc.) (#4764)

• Added: warning message when FFmpeg is not available and muxing is unsupported (#4781)

• Changed: logging channel of deprecation messages to “warning” (#4785)

• Disabled: --twitch-disable-hosting and removed its logic (#4805)

• Fixed: memory leak when initializing the Streamlink session (#4768)

• Fixed: cbsnews plugin (#4743)

• Fixed: steam plugin authentication (#4745)

• Fixed: ustreamtv plugin (#4761)

• Fixed: huya plugin (#4763)

• Fixed: atresplayer, mitele and rtve plugins (#4759, #4760, #4766)

• Fixed: albavision, hiplayer and htv plugins (#4770)

• Fixed: OKru plugin with support for the mobile page (#4780)

• Fixed: trovo plugin VODs (#4812)

• API: added Streamlink and HTTPSession typing informations to Plugin and Stream (including its various subclasses) (#4802, #4814)

• API: added pluginargument decorator (#4747)

• Docs: updated pluginmatcher and pluginargument documentation (#4771)

Full changelog

streamlink 4.3.0 (2022-08-15)

Release highlights:

• Improved: CLI download progress output (#4656)

• Fixed: consecutive FFmpeg executable lookups not being cached (#4660)

• Fixed: --ffmpeg-verbose-path not expanding ~ to the user’s home directory (#4688)

• Fixed: deprecated stdlib API calls in the upcoming Python 3.11 release (#4651, #4654)

• Fixed: huya plugin (#4685)

• Fixed: livestream plugin (#4679)

• Fixed: picarto plugin (#4729)

• Fixed: nbcnews plugin (#4668)

• Fixed: deutschewelle plugin (#4725)

• Added plugins: atpchallenger (#4700)

• Removed plugins: nbc + nbcsports + theplatform (#4731), common_jwplayer (#4733)

• Docs: various CLI related improvements (#4659)

• Docs: removed OpenBSD and Ubuntu from install docs (#4681)

• Plugin API: added new validation schemas and updated validators (#4691, #4709, #4732)

Full changelog

streamlink 4.2.0 (2022-07-09)

Release highlights:

• Added: new Windows portable builds (#4581)

• Added: more dependency versions to debug log header (#4575)

• Added: parsed multivariant playlist reference to HLSStream and MuxedHLSStream (#4568)

• Fixed: unnecessary delay when closing DASHStreams (#4630)

• Fixed: FFmpegMuxer not closing sub-streams concurrently (#4634)

• Fixed: threading issue when closing WebsocketClient connections (#4608)

• Fixed: handling of PluginErrors when outputting JSON data via --json (#4590)

• Fixed: broken YouTube plugin when setting custom authentication headers (#4576)

• Fixed: “source” Twitch VODs not being considered “best” (#4625)

• Fixed: and rewritten FilmOn plugin (#4573)

• Fixed: websocket issue in Twitcasting plugin (#4608, #4628)

• Fixed: VK plugin (#4613, #4638)

• Fixed: various other plugin issues (see full changelog)

• New plugins: Aloula (#4572)

• Removed plugins: Eltrecetv (#4593)

• Docs: added openSUSE (#4596) and Scoop (#4600) packages

• Docs: improved some links in CLI docs (#4623)

• Docs: upgraded furo theme to 2022.06.04.1, require sphinx >=4, and replace recommonmark with myst-parser (#4610)

• Build: fixed outdated python_requires value in setup.cfg (#4580)

• Build: upgraded versioningit build dependency to >=2.0.0 <3 (#4597)

Full changelog

streamlink 4.1.0 (2022-05-30)

Release highlights:

• Improved: decryption of HLS streams (#4533)

• Improved: HLS playlist parsing (#4540, #4552)

• Improved: validation schemas and error handling/printing (#4514)

• Improved: string representations of Stream implementations (#4521)

• Fixed: new YouTube consent dialog (#4515)

• Fixed: crunchyroll plugin (#4510)

• Fixed: nicolive email logins (#4553)

• Fixed: threading issue when closing segmented streams (#4517)

• Removed: suppression of InsecureRequestWarning (#4525)

• New plugins: blazetv (#4548), hiplayer (#4507), useetv (#4536)

• Removed plugins: rotana (#4512)

Full changelog

streamlink 4.0.1 (2022-05-01)

No code changes.
Please see the changelog of the 4.0.0 release, as it contains breaking changes.

• Fixed: missing source-dist tarballs on GitHub release page (#4503)

Full changelog

streamlink 4.0.0 (2022-05-01)

Breaking changes:

• BREAKING: dropped support for Python 3.6 (#4442)

• BREAKING/API: removed streamlink.plugin.api.utils module (#4467)

• BREAKING/setup: switched to PEP 518 build system declaration and replaced versioneer in favor of versioningit (#4440)

• BREAKING/packaging: replaced Windows installers with new ones built at streamlink/windows-installer (#4405)

  • Added: new embedded Python builds for 3.8 and 3.10, both x86 and x86_64

  • Updated: embedded FFmpeg to 5.0

Release highlights:

• Added: support for --record=-, for writing data to stdout while watching at the same time (#4462)

• Added: plugin variable for --title, --output, --record and --record-and-pipe (#4437)

• Added: missing CLI protocol parameter support for DASH streams (#4434)

• Updated: CLI and API documentation (#4415, #4424, #4430)

• Updated: plugin description documentation (#4391)

• Fixed: nicolive email logins (#4380)

• Fixed: various other plugin issues (see the changelog down below)

• New plugins: cmmedia (#4416), htv (#4431), mdstrm (#4395), trovo (#4471)

• Removed plugins: abweb (#4270), garena (#4460), senategov (#4458), teamliquid (#4393), tlctr (#4432), vrtbe (#4459)

Full changelog

streamlink 3.2.0 (2022-03-05)

Release highlights:

• Added: log message for the resolved path when writing output to file (#4336)

• Added: new plugins for rtpa.es (#4344) and lnk.lt (#4364)

• Changed: metadata requirements for built-in plugins (#4374)

• Improved: plugins documentation (#4374)

• Fixed: filmon plugin, requires at least OpenSSL 1.1.0 (#4335, #4345)

• Fixed: mildom plugin (#4375)

• Fixed: nicolive email logins with confirmation codes (#4380)

• Fixed: various other plugin issues, see the changelog down below

• Upgraded: Windows installer’s Python and dependency versions (#4330, #4347)

Full changelog

streamlink 3.1.1 (2022-01-25)

Patch release:

• Fixed: broken streamlink.exe/streamlinkw.exe executables in Windows installer (#4308)

Full changelog

streamlink 3.1.0 (2022-01-22)

Release highlights:

• Changed: file overwrite prompt to wait for user input before opening streams (#4252)

• Fixed: log messages appearing in --json output (#4258)

• Fixed: keep-alive TCP connections when filtering out HLS segments (#4229)

• Fixed: sort order of DASH streams with the same video resolution (#4220)

• Fixed: HLS segment byterange offsets (#4301, #4302)

• Fixed: YouTube /live URLs (#4222)

• Fixed: UStream websocket address (#4238)

• Fixed: Pluto desync issues by filtering out bumper segments (#4255)

• Fixed: various plugin issues - please see the changelog down below

• Removed plugins: abweb (#4270), latina (#4269), live_russia_tv (#4263), liveme (#4264)

Full changelog

streamlink 3.0.3 (2021-11-27)

Patch release:

• Fixed: broken output of the --help CLI argument (#4213)

• Fixed: parsing of invalid HTML5 documents (#4210)

Please see the changelog of 3.0.0, as it contains breaking changes that may require user interaction.

Full changelog

streamlink 3.0.2 (2021-11-25)

Patch release:

• Added: support for the id plugin metadata property (#4203)

• Updated: Twitch access token request parameter regarding embedded ads (#4194)

• Fixed: early SIGINT/SIGTERM signal handling (#4190)

• Fixed: broken character set decoding when parsing HTML documents (#4201)

• Fixed: missing home directory expansion (tilde character) in file output paths (#4204)

• New plugin: tviplayer (#4199)

Full changelog

streamlink 3.0.1 (2021-11-17)

Patch release:

• Fixed: broken pycountry import in Windows installer’s Python environment (#4180)

Full changelog

streamlink 3.0.0 (2021-11-17)

Breaking changes:

• BREAKING: dropped support for RTMP, HDS and AkamaiHD streams (#4169, #4168)

  • removed the rtmp://, hds:// and akamaihd:// protocol plugins

  • removed all Flash related code

  • upgraded all plugins using these old streaming protocols

  • dropped RTMPDump dependency

• BREAKING: removed the following CLI arguments (and respective session options): (#4169, #4168)

  • --rtmp-rtmpdump, --rtmpdump, --rtmp-proxy, --rtmp-timeout
    Users of Streamlink’s Windows installer will need to update their config file.

  • --subprocess-cmdline, --subprocess-errorlog, --subprocess-errorlog-path

  • --hds-live-edge, --hds-segment-attempts, --hds-segment-threads, --hds-segment-timeout, --hds-timeout

• BREAKING: switched from HTTP to HTTPS for all kinds of scheme-less input URLs. If a site or http-proxy doesn’t support HTTPS, then HTTP needs to be set explicitly. (#4068, #4053)

• BREAKING/API: changed Session.resolve_url() and Session.resolve_url_no_redirect() to return a tuple of a plugin class and the resolved URL instead of an initialized plugin class instance. This fixes the availability of plugin options in a plugin’s constructor. (#4163)

• BREAKING/requirements: dropped alternative dependency pycrypto and removed the STREAMLINK_USE_PYCRYPTO env var switch (#4174)

• BREAKING/requirements: switched from iso-639+iso3166 to pycountry and removed the STREAMLINK_USE_PYCOUNTRY env var switch (#4175)

• BREAKING/setup: disabled unsupported Python versions, disabled the deprecated test setuptools command, removed the NO_DEPS env var, and switched to declarative package data via setup.cfg (#4079, #4107, #4115, #4113)

Release highlights:

• Deprecated: --https-proxy in favor of a single --http-proxy CLI argument (and respective session option). Both now set the same proxy for all HTTPS/HTTP requests and websocket connections. --https-proxy will be removed in a future release. (#4120)

• Added: official support for Python 3.10 (#4144)

• Added: --twitch-api-header for only setting Twitch.tv API requests headers (for authentication, etc.) as an alternative to --http-header (#4156)

• Added: BASH and ZSH completions to sdist tarball and wheels. (#4048, #4178)

• Added: support for creating parent directories via metadata variables in file output paths (#4085)

• Added: new WebsocketClient implementation (#4153)

• Updated: plugins using websocket connections - nicolive, ustreamtv, twitcasting (#4155, #4164, #4154)

• Updated: circumvention for YouTube’s age verification (#4058)

• Updated: and fixed lots of other plugins, see the detailed changelog below

• Reverted: HLS segment downloads always being streamed, and added back --hls-segment-stream-data to prevent connection issues (#4159)

• Fixed: URL percent-encoding for sites which require the lowercase format (#4003)

• Fixed: XML parsing issues (#4075)

• Fixed: broken method parameter when using the httpstream:// protocol plugin (#4171)

• Fixed: test failures when the brotli package is installed (#4022)

• Requirements: bumped lxml to >4.6.4,<5.0 and websocket-client to >=1.2.1,<2.0 (#4143, #4153)

• Windows installer: upgraded Python to 3.9.8 and FFmpeg to n4.4.1 (#4176, #4124)

• Documentation: upgraded to first stable version of the Furo theme (#4000)

• New plugins: pandalive (#4064)

• Removed plugins: tga (#4129), viasat (#4087), viutv (#4018), webcast_india_gov (#4024)

Full changelog

streamlink 2.4.0 (2021-09-07)

Release highlights:

• Deprecated: stream-type specific stream transport options in favor of generic options (#3893)

  • use --stream-segment-attempts instead of --{dash,hds,hls}-segment-attempts

  • use --stream-segment-threads instead of --{dash,hds,hls}-segment-threads

  • use --stream-segment-timeout instead of --{dash,hds,hls}-segment-timeout

  • use --stream-timeout instead of --{dash,hds,hls,rtmp,http-stream}-timeout

  See the documentation’s deprecations page for more information.

• Deprecated: --hls-segment-stream-data option and made it always stream segment data (#3894)

• Updated: Python version of the Windows installer from 3.8 to 3.9 and dropped support for Windows 7 due to Python incompatibilities (#3918)
  See the documentation’s install page for alternative installation methods on Windows 7.

• Updated: FFmpeg in the Windows Installer from 4.2 (Zeranoe) to 4.4 (streamlink/FFmpeg-Builds) (#3981)

• Added: {author}, {category}/{game}, {title} and {url} variables to --output, --record and --record-and-play (#3962)

• Added: {time}/{time:custom-format} variable to --title, --output, --record and --record-and-play (#3993)

• Added: --fs-safe-rules for changing character replacement rules in file outputs (#3962)

• Added: plugin metadata to --json stream data output (#3987)

• Fixed: named pipes not being cleaned up by FFMPEGMuxer (#3992)

• Fixed: KeyError on invalid variables in --player-args (#3988)

• Fixed: tests failing in certain cases when run in different order (#3920)

• Fixed: initial HLS playlist parsing issues (#3903, #3910)

• Fixed: various plugin issues. Please see the changelog down below.

• Dependencies: added lxml>=4.6.3 (#3952)

• Dependencies: switched back to requests>=2.26.0 on Windows (#3930)

• Removed plugins: animeworld (#3951), gardenersworld (#3966), huomao (#3932)

Full changelog

streamlink 2.3.0 (2021-07-26)

Release highlights:

• Implemented: new plugin URL matching API (#3814, #3821)
  Third-party plugins which use the old API will still be resolved, but those plugins will have to upgrade in the future. See the documentation’s deprecations page for more information.

• Implemented: HLS media initialization section (fragmented MPEG-4 streams) (#3828)

• Upgraded: requests to >=2.26.0,<3 and set it to ==2.25.1 on Windows (#3864, #3880)

• Fixed: YouTube channel URLs, premiering live streams, added API fallback (#3847, #3873, #3809)

• Removed plugins: canalplus (#3841), dommune (#3818), liveedu (#3845), periscope (#3813), powerapp (#3816), rtlxl (#3842), streamingvideoprovider (#3843), teleclubzoom (#3817), tigerdile (#3819)

Full changelog

streamlink 2.2.0 (2021-06-19)

Release highlights:

• Changed: default config file path on macOS and Windows (#3766)

  • macOS: ${HOME}/Library/Application Support/streamlink/config

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\streamlink\config

• Changed: default custom plugins directory path on macOS and Linux/BSD (#3766)

  • macOS: ${HOME}/Library/Application Support/streamlink/plugins

  • Linux/BSD: ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-${HOME}/.local/share}/streamlink/plugins

• Deprecated: old config file paths and old custom plugins directory paths (#3784)

  • Windows:

    • %APPDATA%\streamlink\streamlinkrc

  • macOS:

    • ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/streamlink/config

    • ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/streamlink/plugins

    • ${HOME}/.streamlinkrc

  • Linux/BSD:

    • ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/streamlink/plugins

    • ${HOME}/.streamlinkrc

  Support for these old paths will be dropped in the future.
  See the CLI documentation for all the details regarding these changes.

• Implemented: --logfile CLI argument (#3753)

• Fixed: Youtube 404 errors by dropping private API calls (plugin rewrite) (#3797)

• Fixed: Twitch clips (#3762, #3775) and hosted channel redirection (#3776)

• Fixed: Olympicchannel plugin (#3760)

• Fixed: various Zattoo plugin issues (#3773, #3780)

• Fixed: HTTP responses with truncated body and mismatching content-length header (#3768)

• Fixed: scheme-less URLs with address:port for --http-proxy, etc. (#3765)

• Fixed: rendered man page path on Sphinx 4 (#3750)

• Added plugins: mildom.com (#3584), booyah.live (#3585), mediavitrina.ru (#3743)

• Removed plugins: ine.com (#3781), playtv.fr (#3798)

Full changelog

streamlink 2.1.2 (2021-05-20)

Patch release:

• Fixed: youtube 404 errors (#3732), consent dialog (#3672) and added short URLs (#3677)

• Fixed: picarto plugin (#3661)

• Fixed: euronews plugin (#3698)

• Fixed: bbciplayer plugin (#3725)

• Fixed: missing removed-plugins-file in setup.py build (#3653)

• Changed: HLS streams to use rounded bandwidth names (#3721)

• Removed: plugin for hitbox.tv / smashcast.tv (#3686), tvplayer.com (#3673)

Full changelog

streamlink 2.1.1 (2021-03-25)

Patch release:

• Fixed: test failure due to missing removed plugins file in sdist tarball (#3644).

Full changelog

streamlink 2.1.0 (2021-03-22)

Release highlights:

• Added: --interface, -4 / --ipv4 and -6 / --ipv6 (#3483)

• Added: --niconico-purge-credentials (#3434)

• Added: --twitcasting-password (#3505)

• Added: Linux AppImages (#3611)

• Added: pre-built man page to bdist wheels and sdist tarballs (#3459, #3510)

• Added: plugin for ahaber.com.tr and atv.com.tr (#3484), nimo.tv (#3508)

• Fixed: --player-http / --player-continuous-http HTTP server being bound to all interfaces (#3450)

• Fixed: handling of languages without alpha_2 code when using pycountry (#3518)

• Fixed: memory leak when calling streamlink.streams() (#3486)

• Fixed: race condition in HLS related tests (#3454)

• Fixed: --player-fifo issues on Windows with VLC or MPV (#3619)

• Fixed: various plugins issues (see detailed changelog down below)

• Removed: Windows portable (RosadinTV) (#3535)

• Removed: plugin for micous.com (#3457), ntvspor.net (#3485), btsports (#3636)

• Dependencies: set websocket-client to >=0.58.0 (#3634)

Full changelog

streamlink 2.0.0 (2020-12-22)

Release highlights:

• BREAKING: dropped support for Python 2 and Python 3.5 (#3232, #3269)

• BREAKING: updated the Python version of the Windows installer to 3.8 (#3330)
  Users of Windows 7 will need their system to be fully upgraded.

• BREAKING: removed all deprecated CLI arguments (#3277, #3349)

  • --http-cookies, --http-headers, --http-query-params

  • --no-version-check

  • --rtmpdump-proxy

  • --cmdline, -c

  • --errorlog, -e

  • --errorlog-path

  • --btv-username, --btv-password

  • --crunchyroll-locale

  • --pixiv-username, --pixiv-password

  • --twitch-oauth-authenticate, --twitch-oauth-token, --twitch-cookie

  • --ustvnow-station-code

  • --youtube-api-key

• BREAKING: replaced various subtitle muxing CLI arguments with --mux-subtitles (#3324)

  • --funimationnow-mux-subtitles

  • --pluzz-mux-subtitles

  • --rtve-mux-subtitles

  • --svtplay-mux-subtitles

  • --vimeo-mux-subtitles

• BREAKING: sideloading faulty plugins will now raise an Exception (#3366)

• BREAKING: changed trace logging timestamp format (#3273)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated Session compat options (#3349)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated custom Logger and LogRecord (#3273)

• BREAKING/API: removed deprecated parameters from HLSStream.parse_variant_playlist (#3347)

• BREAKING/API: removed plugin.api.support_plugin (#3398)

• Added: new plugin for pluto.tv (#3363)

• Added: support for HLS master playlist URLs to --stream-url / --json (#3300)

• Added: --ffmpeg-fout for changing the output format of muxed streams (#2892)

• Added: --ffmpeg-copyts and --ffmpeg-start-at-zero (#3404, #3413)

• Added: --streann-url for iframe referencing (#3356)

• Added: --niconico-timeshift-offset (#3425)

• Fixed: duplicate stream names in DASH inputs (#3410)

• Fixed: youtube live playback (#3268, #3372, #3428)

• Fixed: --twitch-disable-reruns (#3375)

• Fixed: various plugins issues (see detailed changelog down below)

• Changed: {filename} variable in --player-args / -a to {playerinput} and made both optional (#3313)

• Changed: and fixed streamlinkrc config file in the Windows installer (#3350)

• Changed: MPV’s automated --title argument to --force-media-title (#3405)

• Changed: HTML documentation theme to furo (#3335)

• Removed: plugins for skai, kingkong, ellobo, trt/trtspor, tamago, streamme, metube, cubetv, willax

Full changelog

streamlink 1.7.0 (2020-10-18)

Release highlights:

• Added: new plugins for micous.com, tv999.bg and cbsnews.com

• Added: new embedded ad detection for Twitch streams (#3213)

• Fixed: a few broken plugins and minor plugin issues (see changelog down below)

• Fixed: arguments in config files were read too late before taking effect (#3255)

• Fixed: Arte plugin returning too many streams and overriding primary ones (#3228)

• Fixed: Twitch plugin error when stream metadata API response is empty (#3223)

• Fixed: Zattoo login issues (#3202)

• Changed: plugin request and submission guidelines (#3244)

• Changed: refactored and cleaned up Twitch plugin (#3227)

• Removed: platform=_ stream token request parameter from Twitch plugin (again) (#3220)

• Removed: plugins for itvplayer, aljazeeraen, srgssr and dingittv

Full changelog

streamlink 1.6.0 (2020-09-22)

Release highlights:

• Fixed: lots of broken plugins and minor plugin issues (see changelog down below)

• Fixed: embedded ads on Twitch with an ads workaround, removing pre-roll and mid-stream ads (#3173)

• Fixed: read timeout error when filtering out HLS segments (#3187)

• Fixed: twitch plugin logging incorrect low-latency status when pre-roll ads exist (#3169)

• Fixed: crunchyroll auth logic (#3150)

• Added: the --hls-playlist-reload-time parameter for customizing HLS playlist reload times (#2925)

• Added: python -m streamlink invocation style support (#3174)

• Added: plugin for mrt.com.mk (#3097)

• Changed: yupptv plugin and replaced email+pass with id+token authentication (#3116)

• Removed: plugins for vaughnlive, pandatv, douyutv, cybergame, europaplus and startv

Full changelog

streamlink 1.5.0 (2020-07-07)

A minor release with fixes for pycountry==20.7.3 (#3057) and a few plugin additions and removals.

And of course the usual plugin fixes and upgrades, which you can see in the git shortlog down below. Thank you to everyone involved!

Support for Python2 has not been dropped yet (contrary to the comment in the last changelog), but will be in the near future.

Full changelog

streamlink 1.4.1 (2020-04-24)

No code changes. See the full 1.4.0 changelog here.

Full changelog

streamlink 1.4.0 (2020-04-22)

This will be the last release with support for Python 2, as it has finally reached its EOL at the beginning of this year.

Streamlink 1.4.0 comes with lots of plugin fixes/improvements, as well as some new features and plugins, and also a few plugin removals.

Notable changes:

• New: low latency streaming on Twitch via --twitch-low-latency (#2513)

• New: output HLS segment data immediately via --hls-segment-stream-data (#2513)

• New: always show download progress via --force-progress (#2438)

• New: URL template support for --hls-segment-key-uri (#2821)

• Removed: Twitch auth logic, --twitch-oauth-token, --twitch-oauth-authenticate, --twitch-cookie (#2846)

• Fixed: Youtube plugin (#2858)

• Fixed: Crunchyroll plugin (#2788)

• Fixed: Pixiv plugin (#2840)

• Fixed: TVplayer plugin (#2802)

• Fixed: Zattoo plugin (#2887)

• Changed: set Firefox User-Agent HTTP header by default (#2795)

• Changed: upgraded bundled FFmpeg to 4.2.2 in Windows installer (#2916)

Full changelog

streamlink 1.3.1 (2020-01-27)

A small patch release that addresses the removal of MPV’s legacy option syntax, also with fixes of several plugins, the addition of the --twitch-disable-reruns parameter and dropped support for Python 3.4.

Full changelog

streamlink 1.3.0 (2019-11-22)

A new release with plugin updates and fixes, including Twitch.tv (see #2680), which had to be delayed due to back and forth API changes.

The Twitch.tv workarounds mentioned in #2680 don’t have to be applied anymore, but authenticating via --twitch-oauth-token has been disabled, regardless of the origin of the OAuth token (via --twitch-oauth-authenticate or the Twitch website). In order to not introduce breaking changes, both parameters have been kept in this release and the user name will still be logged when using an OAuth token, but receiving item drops or accessing restricted streams is not possible anymore.

Plugins for the following sites have also been added:

• albavision

• news.now.com

• twitcasting.tv

• viu.tv

• vlive.tv

• willax.tv

Full changelog

streamlink 1.2.0 (2019-08-18)

Here are the changes for this month’s release

• Multiple plugin fixes

• Fixed single hyphen params at the beginning of –player-args (#2333)

• --http-proxy will set the default value of --https-proxy to same as --http-proxy. (#2536)

• DASH Streams will handle headers correctly (#2545)

• the timestamp for FFMPEGMuxer streams will start with zero (#2559)

Full changelog

streamlink 1.1.1 (2019-04-02)

This is just a small patch release which fixes a build/deploy issue with the new special wheels for Windows on PyPI. (#2392)

Please see the full changelog of the 1.1.0 release!

Full changelog

streamlink 1.1.0 (2019-03-31)

These are the highlights of Streamlink’s first minor release after the 1.0.0 milestone:

• several plugin fixes, improvements and new plugin implementations

• addition of the --twitch-disable-ads parameter for filtering out advertisement segments from Twitch.tv streams (#2372)

• DASH stream improvements (#2285)

• documentation enhancements (#2292, #2293)

• addition of the {url} player title variable (#2232)

• default player title config for PotPlayer (#2224)

• new streamlinkw executable on Windows (wheels + installer) (#2326)

• Github release assets simplification (#2360)

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streamlink 1.0.0 (2019-01-30)

The celebratory release of Streamlink 1.0.0!

A lot of hard work has gone into getting Streamlink to where it is. Not only is Streamlink used across multiple applications and platforms, but companies as well.

Streamlink started from the inaugural fork of Livestreamer on September 17th, 2016.

Since then, We’ve hit multiple milestones:

• Over 886 PRs

• Hit 3,000 commits in Streamlink

• Obtaining our first sponsors as well as backers of the project

• The creation of our own logo (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/1123)

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Streamlink (and our backers)! Without you, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

Without further ado, here are the changes in release 1.0.0:

• We have a new icon / logo for Streamlink! (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2165)

• Updated dependencies (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2230)

• A ton of plugin updates. Have a look at this search query for all the recent updates.

• You can now provide a custom key URI to override HLS streams (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2139). For example: --hls-segment-key-uri <URI>

• User agents for API communication have been updated (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2194)

• Special synonyms have been added to sort “best” and “worst” streams (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2127). For example: streamlink --stream-sorting-excludes '>=480p' URL best,best-unfiltered

• Process output will no longer show if tty is unavailable (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2090)

• We’ve removed BountySource in favour of our OpenCollective page. If you have any features you’d like to request, please open up an issue with the request and possibly consider backing us!

• Improved terminal progress display for wide characters (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2032)

• Fixed a bug with dynamic playlists on playback (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2096)

• Fixed makeinstaller.sh (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2098)

• Old Livestreamer deprecations and API references were removed (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1987)

• Dependencies have been updated for Python (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1975)

• Newer and more common User-Agents are now used (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1974)

• DASH stream bitrates now round-up to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, etc. (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1995)

• Updated documentation on issue templates (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1996)

• URL have been added for better processing of HTML tags (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1675)

• Fixed sort and prog issue (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1964)

• Reformatted issue templates (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1966)

• Fixed crashing bug with player-continuous-http option (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2234)

• Make sure all dev dependencies (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2235)

• -r parameter has been replaced for –rtmp-rtmpdump (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2152)

Breaking changes:

• A large number of unmaintained or NSFW plugins have been removed. You can find the PR that implemented that change here: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/2003 . See our CONTRIBUTING.md documentation for plugin policy.

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streamlink 0.14.2 (2018-06-28)

Just a few small fixes in this release.

• Fixed Twitch OAuth request flow (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1856)

• Fix the tv3cat and vk plugins (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1851, https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1874)

• VOD supported added to atresplayer plugin (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1852, https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1853)

• Removed tv8cati and nineanime plugins (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1860, https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1863)

• Added mjunoon.tv plugin (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1857)

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streamlink 0.14.0 (2018-06-26)

Here are the changes to this months release!

• Multiple plugin fixes

• Bug fixes for DASH streams (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1846)

• Updated API call for api.utils hours_minutes_seconds (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1804)

• Updated documentation (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1826)

• Dict structures fix (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1792)

• Reformated help menu (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1754)

• Logger fix (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1773)

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streamlink 0.13.0 (2018-06-06)

Massive release this month!

Here are the changes:

• Initial MPEG DASH support has been added! (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1637) Many thanks to @beardypig

• As always, a ton of plugin updates

• Updates to our documentation (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1673)

• Updates to our logging (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1752) as well as log –quiet options (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1744) (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1720)

• Our release script has been updated (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1711)

• Support for livestreams when using the --hls-duration option (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1710)

• Allow streamlink to exit faster when using Ctrl+C (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1658)

• Added an OpenCV Face Detection example (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1689)

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streamlink 0.12.1 (2018-05-07)

Streamlink 0.12.1

Small release to fix a pip / Windows.exe generation bug!

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streamlink 0.12.0 (2018-05-07)

Streamlink 0.12.0

Thanks for all the contributors to this month’s release!

New updates:

• A ton of plugin updates (like always! see below for a list of updates)

• Ignoring a bunch of useless files when developing (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1570)

• A new option to limit the number of fetch retries (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1375)

• YouTube has been updated to not use MuxedStream for livestreams (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1556)

• Bug fix with ffmpegmux (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1502)

• Removed dead plugins and deprecated options (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1546)

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streamlink 0.11.0 (2018-03-08)

Streamlink 0.11.0!

Here’s what’s new:

• Fixed documentation (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1467 and https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1468)

• Current versions of the OS, Python, Streamlink and Requests are now shown with -l debug (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1374)

• ok.ru/live plugin added (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1451)

• New option –hls-segment-ignore-names (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1432)

• AfreecaTV plugin updates (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1390)

• Added support for zattoo recordings (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1480)

• Bigo plugin updates (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1474)

• Neulion plugin removed due to DMCA notice (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1497)

• And many more updates to numerous other plugins!

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streamlink 0.10.0 (2018-01-23)

Streamlink 0.10.0!

There’s been a lot of activity since our November release.

Changes:

• Multiple plugin updates (too many to list, see below for the plugin changes!)

• HLS seeking support (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1303)

• Changes to the Windows binary (docs: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1408 minor changes to install directory: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/pull/1407)

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streamlink 0.9.0 (2017-11-14)

Streamlink 0.9.0 has been released!

This release is mostly code refactoring as well as module inclusion.

Features:

• Updates to multiple plugins (electrecetv, tvplayer, Teve2, cnnturk, kanald)

• SOCKS module being included in the Streamlink installer (PySocks)

Many thanks to those who’ve contributed in this release!

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streamlink 0.8.1 (2017-09-12)

0.8.1 of Streamlink!

97 commits have occurred since the last release, including a large majority of plugin changes.

Here’s the outline of what’s new:

• Multiple plugin fixes (twitch, vaughlive, hitbox, etc.)

• Donations! We’ve gone ahead and joined the Open Collective at https://opencollective.com/streamlink

• Multiple doc updates

• Support for SOCKS proxies

• Code refactoring

Many thanks to those who’ve contributed in this release!

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streamlink 0.7.0 (2017-06-30)

0.7.0 of Streamlink!

Since our May release, we’ve incorporated quite a few changes!

Outlined are the major features in this month’s release:

• Stream types will now be sorted accordingly in terms of quality

• TeamLiquid.net Plugin added

• Numerous plugin & bug fixes

• Updated HomeBrew package

• Improved CLI documentation

Many thanks to those who’ve contributed in this release!

If you think that this application is helpful, please consider supporting the maintainers by donating.

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streamlink 0.6.0 (2017-05-11)

Another release of Streamlink!

We’ve updated more plugins, improved documentation, and moved out nightly builds to Bintray (S3 was costing wayyyy too much).

Again, many thanks for those who’ve contributed!

Thank you very much!

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streamlink 0.5.0 (2017-04-04)

Streamlink 0.5.0!

Lot’s of contributions since the last release. As always, lot’s of updating to plugins!

One of the new features is the addition of Google Drive / Google Docs, you can now stream videos stored on Google Docs.

We’ve also gone ahead and removed dead plugins (sites which have gone down) as well as added pycrypto as a dependency for future plugins.

Again, many thanks for those who have contributed!

Thank you very much!

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streamlink 0.4.0 (2017-03-09)

0.4.0 of Streamlink!

114 commits since the last release and a lot has changed.

In general, we’ve added some localization as well as an assortment of new plugins.

We’ve also introduced a change for Streamlink to not check for new updates each time Streamlink starts. We found this feature annoying as well as delaying the initial start of the stream. This feature can be re-enabled by the command line.

The major features of this release are:

• New plugins added

• Ongoing support to current plugins via bug fixes

• Ensure retries to HLS streams

• Disable update check

Many thanks to all contributors who have contributed in this release!

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streamlink 0.3.2 (2017-02-10)

0.3.2 release of Streamlink!

A minor bug release of 0.3.2 to fix a few issues with stream providers.

Thanks to all whom have contributed to this (tiny) release!

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streamlink 0.3.1 (2017-02-03)

0.3.1 release of Streamlink

A minor release, we update our source code upload to not include the ffmpeg.exe binary as well as update a multitude of plugins.

Thanks again for all the contributions as well as updates!

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streamlink 0.3.0 (2017-01-24)

Release 0.3.0 of Streamlink!

A lot of updates to each plugin (thank you @beardypig !), automated Windows releases, PEP8 formatting throughout Streamlink are some of the few updates to this release as we near a stable 1.0.0 release.

Main features are:

• Lot’s of maintaining / updates to plugins

• General bug and doc fixes

• Major improvements to development (github issue templates, automatically created releases)

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streamlink 0.2.0 (2016-12-16)

Release 0.2.0 of Streamlink!

We’ve done numerous changes to plugins as well as fixed quite a few which were originally failing. Among these changes are updated docs as well as general UI/UX cleaning with console output.

The main features are:

• Additional plugins added

• Plugin fixes

• Cleaned up console output

• Additional documentation (contribution, installation instructions)

Again, thank you everyone whom contributed to this release! :D

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streamlink 0.1.0 (2016-11-21)

A major update to Streamlink.

With this release, we include a Windows binary as well as numerous plugin changes and fixes.

The main features are:

• Windows binary (and generation!) thanks to the fabulous work by @beardypig

• Multiple plugin fixes

• Remove unneeded run-as-root (no more warning you when you run as root, we trust that you know what you’re doing)

• Fix stream quality naming issue

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streamlink 0.0.2 (2016-10-12)

The second ever release of Streamlink!

In this release we’ve not only set the stepping stone for the further development of Streamlink (documentation site updated, CI builds working) but we’re already fixing bugs and implementing features past the initial fork of livestreamer.

The main features of this release are: - New windows build available and generated via pyinstaller - Multiple provider bug fixes (twitch, picarto, itvplayer, crunchyroll, periscope, douyutv) - Updated and reformed documentation which also includes our site https://streamlink.github.io

As always, below is a git shortlog of all changes from the previous release of Streamlink (0.0.1) to now (0.0.2).

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streamlink 0.0.1 (2016-09-23)

The first release of Streamlink!

This is the first release from the initial fork of Livestreamer. We aim to have a concise, fast review process and progress in terms of development and future releases.

Below is a git shortlog of all commits since the last change within Livestream (hash ab80dbd6560f6f9835865b2fc9f9c6015aee5658). This will serve as a base-point as we continue development of “Streamlink”.

New releases will include a list of changes as we add new features / code refactors to the existing code-base.

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