release 2019.01.02

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 ---
 
-### Make sure you are using the *latest* version: run `youtube-dl --version` and ensure your version is *2018.12.31*. If it's not, read [this FAQ entry](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.
-- [ ] I've **verified** and **I assure** that I'm running youtube-dl **2018.12.31**
+### Make sure you are using the *latest* version: run `youtube-dl --version` and ensure your version is *2019.01.02*. If it's not, read [this FAQ entry](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.
+- [ ] I've **verified** and **I assure** that I'm running youtube-dl **2019.01.02**
 
 ### Before submitting an *issue* make sure you have:
 - [ ] At least skimmed through the [README](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md), **most notably** the [FAQ](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#faq) and [BUGS](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#bugs) sections
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Add the `-v` flag to **your command line** you run youtube-dl with (`youtube-dl
 [debug] User config: []
 [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
-[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.12.31
+[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.02
 [debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
 [debug] Proxy map: {}

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -261,11 +261,33 @@ title = meta.get('title') or self._og_search_title(webpage)
 
 This code will try to extract from `meta` first and if it fails it will try extracting `og:title` from a `webpage`.
 
-### Make regular expressions flexible
+### Regular expressions
 
-When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy and flexible.
+#### Don't capture groups you don't use
 
-#### Example
+Capturing group must be an indication that it's used somewhere in the code. Any group that is not used must be non capturing.
+
+##### Example
+
+Don't capture id attribute name here since you can't use it for anything anyway.
+
+Correct:
+
+```python
+r'(?:id|ID)=(?P<id>\d+)'
+```
+
+Incorrect:
+```python
+r'(id|ID)=(?P<id>\d+)'
+```
+
+
+#### Make regular expressions relaxed and flexible
+
+When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy, relaxed and flexible, skipping insignificant parts that are more likely to change, allowing both single and double quotes for quoted values and so on.
+ 
+##### Example
 
 Say you need to extract `title` from the following HTML code:
 
@@ -298,6 +320,25 @@ title = self._search_regex(
     webpage, 'title', group='title')
 ```
 
+### Long lines policy
+
+There is a soft limit to keep lines of code under 80 characters long. This means it should be respected if possible and if it does not make readability and code maintenance worse.
+
+For example, you should **never** split long string literals like URLs or some other often copied entities over multiple lines to fit this limit:
+
+Correct:
+
+```python
+'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4'
+```
+
+Incorrect:
+
+```python
+'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list='
+'PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4'
+```
+
 ### Use safe conversion functions
 
 Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py): `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version <unreleased>
+version 2019.01.02
 
 Extractors
 * [discovery] Use geo verification headers (#17838)

youtube_dl/version.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-__version__ = '2018.12.31'
+__version__ = '2019.01.02'