Release 2021.03.01

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -23,3 +23,5 @@ tsukumi
 bbepis
 Pccode66
 Ashish
+RobinD42
+hseg

Changelog.md

@@ -17,6 +17,27 @@
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+### 2021.03.01
+* Allow specifying path in `--external-downloader`
+* Add option `--sleep-requests` to sleep b/w requests
+* Add option `--extractor-retries` to retry on known extractor errors
+* Extract comments only when needed
+* `--get-comments` doesn't imply `--write-info-json` if `-J`, `-j` or `--print-json` are used
+* [youtube] Retry on more known errors than just HTTP-5xx
+* [tennistv] Fix format sorting
+* [readthedocs] Improvements by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
+* [hls] Fix bug with m3u8 format extraction
+* [bilibiliaudio] Recognize the file as audio-only
+* [hrfensehen] Fix wrong import
+* [youtube] Fix inconsistent `webpage_url`
+* [hls] Enable `--hls-use-mpegts` by default when downloading live-streams
+* [viki] Fix viki play pass authentication by [RobinD42](https://github.com/RobinD42)
+* [embedthumbnail] Fix bug with deleting original thumbnail
+* [build] Fix completion paths, zsh pip completion install by [hseg](https://github.com/hseg)
+* [ci] Disable download tests unless specifically invoked
+* Cleanup some code and fix typos
+
+
 ### 2021.02.24
 * Moved project to an organization [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp)
 * **Completely changed project name to yt-dlp** by [Pccode66](https://github.com/Pccode66) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)

README.md

@@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
                                      directory
 
 ## Extractor Options:
+    --extractor-retries RETRIES      Number of retries for known extractor
+                                     errors (default is 10), or "infinite"
     --allow-dynamic-mpd              Process dynamic DASH manifests (default)
                                      (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)
     --ignore-dynamic-mpd             Do not process dynamic DASH manifests

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -3020,7 +3020,8 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
             # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/116
             if count:
                 self.report_warning('Incomplete yt initial data recieved. Retrying ...')
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, item_id,
+            webpage = self._download_webpage(
+                url, item_id,
                 'Downloading webpage%s' % ' (retry #%d)' % count if count else '')
             identity_token = self._extract_identity_token(webpage, item_id)
             data = self._extract_yt_initial_data(item_id, webpage)