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v2.8.0 (2022-02-28)

Feature

  • helptext: Help changelog (0643941)
  • setup: Extras dependencies for mpris (936e890)

Fix

  • 37 use set pages command to config how many search result pages to show (2baec5f)

  • 44 dont run init when importing mps_youtube (a072c22)

  • mpris: Handle no data on time-pos (8bb29d3)

  • 39 key error 'data' (834ed5b)

  • 38 improved help menu responsiveness (972b4ef)

  • 35 remove api key instructions (4f1fee3)

  • 24 colorama support for windows (9cf2616)

v2.7.0 (2022-02-19)

Feature

  • Use yewtube over tor using torsocks 🔥 (1e9c4ce)

v2.6.9 (2022-02-19)

Fix

  • 28 show changelog with help new command (d52b65d)

v2.6.8 (2022-02-19)

Fix

  • fixed #26 album search working now without youtube api (9c3ae03)

v2.6.7 (2022-02-19)

Fix

  • Check for app updates (eabfb52)
  • Don't crash if playlists / history file has invalid youtube id fixed #24 (323d5d8)

v2.6.6 (2022-02-18)

Fix

v2.6.5 (2022-02-17)

Fix

  • Default player priority is vlc > mpv > mplayer on first install fixed #16 (35409eb)
  • mplayer: _get_mplayer_version (ab21c5d)
  • Bring back requirements.txt to life (ff6e59d)
  • util.uea_pad: Handle AttributeError on t.split (1643266)

v2.6.4 (2022-02-16)

Fix

  • Duplicate changelog and readme files (0265ef7)

v2.6.3 (2022-02-16)

Fix

  • Welcome from semantic release python (c237a68)

yewtube was forked from mps-youtube

Features

  • was made to work without YouTube API v3
  • play music in vlc with no gui



Version 0.2.8 17 February 2018

Features:

  • Lastfm scrobbling (@rien333) (#758)
  • splaylist and suser commands for Spotify (@ritiek) (#678)
  • Autoplay support (@nikhilweee) (#594)
  • genpl command (@nishanthkarthik) (#642)
  • video_format configuration setting (@Vrihub) (#656)
  • live command for live streams (@Razesdark) (#635)
  • Add time column (@akaWolf) (#582)
  • Add video ID column (@Razesdark) (#627)
  • Allow filtering search by duration (@jas32096) (#548)
  • Allow filtering search by date (@jas32096) (#553)
  • Add history recent to display history without duplicates (@srvanrell) (#510)
  • --no-textart to disable ascii art (for screenreaders) (@Gongreg) (#517)
  • set_title option to disable setting window title (@ardrabczyk) (#498)
  • Add s command for getting stream information (@ritiek) (#675)
  • Add option to disable mpris (@hrnr) (#728)
  • Generate playlist from video description (@Razesdark) (#649)

Enhancements:

  • Store playlists as m3u files instead of binary (@kraetzin) (#682)
  • Show replies when displaying comments (@paulfertser) (#677)
  • Use https urls for album art (@vszakats) (#574)
  • When using "repeat" with mpv, keep player running (@ritiek) (#660)
  • Display artist/album in mpris using lastfm (@vn-ki) (#739)
  • Use channel.list API for user search (@Razesdark) (#628)
  • Maintain volume across songs with mpv (@Razesdark) (#720)
  • Prevent mpris from crashing the main process (@hrnr) (#728)

Bug fixes:

  • Fix mpris seeking with recent mpv vesions (@mg6) (#687)
  • Fix removing video from multi-page playlist (@kraetzin) (#695)
  • Skip unavailable tracks (@ritiek) (#734)
  • Correctly display minutes/seconds (@Laxa) (#748)
  • Handle null time-pos from mpv (@pritambaral) (#519)
  • Fix da/dv command regex (@Vrihub) (#691)
  • Skip channels in video/playlist searches (@ritiek) (#664)
  • Fix divide by zero error (@ids1024) (#620)

Use git log v0.2.7.1..v0.2.8 to see all changes, including various minor fixes, documentation changes, etc. not included here.

Version 0.2.7.1 6 July 2016

Bug fixes:

  • Fix pickle error (@ids1024) (#503)
  • Install LICENSE, README.md, and CHANGELOG as package_data (@ids1024)
  • Update youtube-dl in py2exe build (@ids1024)

Version 0.2.7 27 June 2016

Features:

  • Setting for default audio format (@nishanthkarthik) (#71 #466 #467)
  • Search history with history command (@kraetzin) (#344 #472)
  • Add syntax for repeating a track several times (@ghallak) (#437 #490)
  • Reverse command (@kraetzin) (#422 #473)
  • New daurl <url> command (@maricn) (#402)

Enhancements:

  • Pass --no-ytdl to mpv (@ids1024) (#492)
  • Do not suppress mpv output in debug mode (@ids1024)
  • Print traceback in debug mode (@ids1024)
  • Speed up checkupdate by avoiding redirects (@ids1024) (#454)
  • Pass --play-and-exit if vlc is used as a player (@ids1024)`

Bug fixes:

  • Fix error with python 3.3 (@ids1024) (#414)
  • Fix maxres bug (@ids1024) (#430)
  • Fix playlist cache bug in info command (@ids1024) (#468)
  • Fix usersearch argument error (@ids1024) (#469 #482)
  • Fix progress bar with new mpv versions (@ids1024) (#470 #485)
  • Fix syntax error with set command (@ids1024) (#419)
  • Fix syntax error with -w, -f, -a (@ids1024) (#420)
  • Fix clipboard support (@ids1024) (#461)
  • Fix mpv version checking on windows (@ids1024) (#397)
  • Add youtube_dl as dependency to Dockerfile (@PI-Victor) (#481)

Internal api changes:

  • The code is now split between several files (@ids1024) (#208)
  • Add initial content api, for now only used for comments (@ids1024)
  • Begin documenting internal apis using sphinx (@ids1024)

Version 0.2.6 1 January 2016

Features: - Add browserplay command to play video in browser (rjvani) (#355 #390) - Make url command support multiple url, and allow loading urls from file (paulnicolet) (#90 #391) - Make youtube id available to download command (ids1024) (#375) - Make pagination work properly for all lists of songs (local playlists, etc.) and make them all support the dump command (ids1024) (#201) - Show warning when adding duplicate track to playlist (BensonQiu) (#374 #383)

Bug fixes: - Support playlists longer than 200 items (ids1024) (#192) - Make dapl download complete playlist (JKatzwinkel) (#294 #325) - Use pyperclip instead of xerox, fixing clipboard on linux (ids1024) (#311) - Fix error message on windows when video title has & (ids1024) (#321) - Run notifier command in background (hrnr) (#339) - Correctly handle -v option of play (TimoDritschler) (#352) - Make it possible to use a pager with --help (livingBEEF) (#349) - Allow mplayer for https streams if version is new enough (ids1024 Evidlo paddatrapper) (#315 #336 #317) - Use mpv.com instead of mpv.exe on windows (ids1024)

Internal API changes: - Split code into several files (still a work in progress) (ids1024) (#208) - Use a python decorator to declare commands (ids1024) - Create a paginatesongs() function for handling the pagination and dump command uniformly as mentioned in features (#399) (ids1024) - Various others

There have been various other small bug fixes and internal API changes. Use git log v0.2.5..0.2.6 to see all of them.

Version 0.2.5 1 June 2015

  • Support python 3 only (will not run with python 2)
  • Fix progress bar bug on Windows (#215, #223)
  • Fix bug in playlist search (#282)
  • Add user_order setting for separate order of user searches (lol768) (#277)
  • Add mix command (lol768) (#241, #283)
  • Add page count with total number of pages and current page (JKatzwinkel)
  • Fix UnicodeEncodeError on non-unicode terminals
  • Install .desktop in setup.py so it does not have to be installed manually required for Ubuntu sound menu support

Version 0.2.4 13 May 2015

  • Fix issue with rate-limiting in "album" command (#217)
  • Implement support for MPRIS (hrnr and ids1024) (#191, #210)
  • Fix display issue with small terminal width (#215)
  • Use version 3 of the youtube api (JKatzwinkel, ids1024, and lol768) (#256) version 2 was disabled by youtube and no longer works

Version 0.2.3 17 February 2015

  • Fix issue with opening old playlist file (#214)
  • Fix issue with "set" command
  • Metadata tagging of downloaded audio files requires ffmpeg or avconv early implementation, uses YouTube video title, needs more work

Version 0.2.2 14 February 2015

  • Implement skip to previous track (ids1024) #175 #18 #14 Use > and < keys for next and prev track, q for quit (was ctrl-c) mpv / mplayer input.conf can be imported to use custom keymappings

  • Implement optional external download application (ids1024 and np1) #198 #132 enter "help dl-command" for more info

  • Show stream quality on status line (Brebiche38) #134 #163

  • Implement support for creating Windows builds with py2exe (ids1024) #190 Use setup.py in py2exe branch

  • Fix progress bar for mpv 0.7 (ids1024) #155 #161 Resolves issues with playback looping

  • Fix mps-youtube does not run on FreeBSD (nivit)

  • Fix YouTube comments overshoot window size

  • Fix issue with audio remux when using d download command

Version 0.2.1 27 November 2014

[Bugfix] - Detect installed player on installation (#149)

Version 0.2.0 25 November 2014

  • Auto detect terminal window size

  • Transcode audio to MP3 and other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv)

  • Enabled da and dv commands for playlist search results

  • Added dapl and dvpl to download YouTube playlist audio/video by url/id to a separate subdirectory (mtahmed) #110

  • Progress indicator now works with mpv (previously only mplayer)

  • Added option to show system notifications (Alex Nisnevich) #95 (can be used with libnotify - notify-send on linux)

  • Added overwrite true/false option for downloads (mtahmed) #93 (skips download if downloaded file already exists)

  • Added copy to clipboard feature #97 (requires python xerox module and xclip on linux or pywin32 on windows)

  • Remux audio downloads for better file compatibility (#135)

[Bugfix] - Accept two-character length usernames (#99)

[Bugfix] - Expand ~ character in download directory setting (punchagan)

[Bugfix] - Don't truncate filename (YoussF) #122

[Bugfix] - Exit with correct status code

Version 0.01.46 May 18 2014

  • Added c to view comments for a video (first 50 comments, no reply-comments)

  • Added feature to match album tracks using MusicBrainz (vixus0) To search albums, enter "album" optionally followed by album title

  • Custom formatted search result list using "set columns" command Optionally shows: rating, likes, dislikes, views, user, date, category and comments (number of) in search results

  • Added "set order " command for specifying search result ordering

  • Added "set console-width" for setting output width (default 80)

  • Added uploaded date in video info display (request #64)

  • Added likes / dislikes in video info display

Version 0.01.44 Mar 27 2014

  • Added max_res config item for selecting video resolution (request 56)
  • Added window_size and window_pos for selecting size / position of player
  • Improved handling of playlist file read/write (issue 66)
  • Revert to lower quality on unavailable/corrupt streams (issue 65)
  • Enabled multiple invocation commands (comma separated) (request 61) Eg: mpsyt //the doors, 1, shuffle, 1-3-a, quit
  • Improved url caching
  • Added shuffle command (no arguments, shuffles displayed items)
  • Handle 'video not available in your country' during multiple downloads
  • Fix UnicodeDecodeError in mplayer progress parsing (issue 58)
  • Fix UnicodeEncodeError under Windows with Python 2.7 (issue 59)

Version 0.01.41 Mar 14 2014

  • new configuration option, max_results - sets number of returned results (1 - 50)
  • pl now accepts YouTube playlist id's as well as url's
  • Fix error in download of .m4a files when mplayer is set as player.
  • Added option for downloading multiple items eg. da 1-4 or dv 3,5,6

Version 0.01.40 Mar 11 2014

  • Bugfix release, corrects UnicodeDecode error

Version 0.01.39 Mar 10 2014

Features: - Added time / progress bar indicator. Big thanks to Thomas LÉVEIL! (mplayer only) - Added command to retrieve YouTube user playlists; userpl {username} or upl {username} - Added command to retrieve related videos; r{number} - playurl now respects -f, -w, and -a flags (fullscreen, window or audio) - Implemented input history persistence (uses readline, linux only) - Implemented non-interactive mode for command line invocation with playurl - Implemented less interactive mode for command line invocation with dlurl

Changes: - // or .. prefix to search for YouTube playlists (was plsearch / pls)

Help / Documentation: - help will show relevant help topic page e.g., help dlurl - Documented configuration options ("set" commands) - Re-authored some help categories - Changed help to help , removed menu from help pages

Bugfixes - mplayer / mpv window now displays content title instead of url - Fixed issue with Python3 terminal output on playback ctrl-c interrupt - Fixed issue with debug mode not logging to file - Changed year format in YT playlist result screen to last two digits. (Under some environments it was showing 4-digit years)

Version 0.01.38 Mar 5 2014

  • Added i for YT playlist information display
  • Added stream url preloading for first item of opened YT playlists
  • Added last-updated date to YT playlist search result list
  • Fixed UnicodeError when run in non-UTF8 environments
  • Added more verbosity to --version command line option
  • Added --debug command line option (logs to /mpsyt.log)

Version 0.01.37 Mar 2 2014

  • Excluded YouTube paid videos from search results
  • Added "pl " command to open YouTube playlist url
  • Added "plsearch " command to search for YouTube playlists
  • Added "dump" command to show entire YT playlist (useful for saving locally)
  • Added "undump" command to undo dump (re-paginates YT playlist items)
  • Added "u " command to list uploads by uploader of
  • Added "url " command for retrieving a specific YT video
  • Added "playurl " command for directly playing a YT video
  • Added "dlurl " command for directly downloading a YT video
  • Changed command to list user uploads, new syntax is "user "
  • Added mpsyt --version flag for printing version info
  • Added mpsyt --help flag for printing help text
  • Fixed indentation bug when scrolling through readline history

Version 0.01.36 Feb 27 2014

  • Wait for preloading item if it is selected while preloading
  • Fix bug where -a audio override is sometimes ignored

Version 0.01.35 Feb 25 2014

  • Faster opening of audio streams with mpv (--demuxer-lavf-o=fflags=+ignid argument added for m4a streams)

  • Faster opening of audio streams with mplayer (reject m4a streams, prefer ogg streams) (fallback to video stream and suppress video when no ogg available)

Version 0.01.34 Feb 22 2014

  • Fix bug: fails when no playlist file exists

Version 0.01.33 Feb 22 2014

  • Changed structure of playlist file. Now consumes KB's rather than MB's
  • Same playlist file shared between Python2.7+ and Python3+ (was separate)
  • Improved display alignment for Russian text
  • Preload of url fails silently on unobtainable items (previously crashed)
  • Added prompt to mux audio on m4v download (experimental)

Version 0.01.32 Feb 17 2014

  • Improve display alignment with certain unicode characters
  • Fix crash when using 'set' command on Windows (thomasleveil)

Version 0.01.31 Feb 13 2014

  • Migrate location of config directory to reflect new name (~/.config/mps-youtube)