YoutubeDLSharp Changelog

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v.1.2.0 (2026-01)

  • New/ Changed: Include new and changed yt-dlp options (version 2025-12-08).
  • New: Better support for options with multiple values via StringVals. Fixes --alias, --replace-in-metadata.
  • New: Add Utils.DownloadDeno() method to download Deno runtime.
  • Changed: Binary downloads: Add unix setExec support; add timeout on downloads.

v.1.1.2 (2025-04)

  • New/ Changed: Include new and changed yt-dlp options (version 2023-03-31).
  • Fixed: Fix command-injection vulnerability running on Windows

v.1.1.1 (2024-07)

  • New: Add .NET 8 as build target.
  • Fixed: More robust int value parsing in FormatData.
  • Fixed: Fix enum serialization defaults.

v.1.1.0 (2024-01)

  • New/ Changed: Include new and changed yt-dlp options (version 2023-12-30).
  • New: Add support for option string aliases (e.g. for parsing).
  • New: Specify PythonInterpreterPath in YoutubeDL class.
  • Fixed: Catch json deserialization errors in video data fetch.
  • Fixed: HasDRM attribute in FormatData.
  • Fixed: Passing of video IDs with hyphens.

v.1.0.0 (2023-07)

  • New: Use yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl as default downloader.
  • New: Methods for automatically downloading yt-dlp and FFmpeg.
  • New: Addition of options, video & format data attributes for yt-dlp.
  • New: MultiOption & MultiValue classes for options that can be set multiple times.
  • New: Add .NET 6 as build target.
  • New: Support extraction of chapter & comment information.
  • New: Addition of various missing video & format data attributes (e.g. episode, album, track information).
  • New: Additional RunWithOptions() for single URL & with progress info.
  • Changed: Better support for various video data attributes (e.g. time stamps, status enums, ...)
  • Changed: Apply override options after setting other options in YoutubeDL methods.
  • Changed: Changed default output template to be in line with the yt-dlp format.
  • Fixed: Error when using executable path with spaces.

v.0.4.3 (2022-11)

  • Fixed: Windows issues with non-ASCII chars in output.

v.0.4.2 (2022-03)

  • Fixed: Starting youtube-dl process blocks main thread

v.0.4.1 (2022-01)

  • New: Methods for adding, modifying & deleting custom options in OptionSet
  • Fixed: Download state reporting in YoutubeDLProcess

v.0.4.0 (2021-10)

  • New: Support custom options
  • Fixed: start_time & end_time properties in metadata

v.0.3.1 (2021-06)

  • Fixed: MetadataType in VideoData
  • Changed: Include new changes in youtube-dl options

v.0.3 (2020-09)

  • New: Override options in OptionSet & YoutubeDL class.
  • New: More download progress information (transfer rate, ...)
  • Fixed: Converting option set to & from string.

v.0.2 (2020-03)

  • New: Option to capture output in YoutubeDL class.
  • New: Added PythonPath to YoutubeDLProcess.
  • New: Load configuration from file or string.
  • Fixed: FormatData.FrameRate.

v.0.1 (2020-01)

  • First released version.