name: Feature request description: Request a new functionality unrelated to any particular site or extractor labels: [triage, enhancement] body: - type: checkboxes attributes: label: DO NOT REMOVE OR SKIP THE ISSUE TEMPLATE description: Fill all fields even if you think it is irrelevant for the issue options: - label: I understand that I will be **blocked** if I *intentionally* remove or skip any mandatory\* field required: true - type: checkboxes id: checklist attributes: label: Checklist description: | Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp: options: - label: I'm requesting a feature unrelated to a specific site required: true - label: I've looked through the [README](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme) required: true - label: I've verified that I have **updated yt-dlp to nightly or master** ([update instructions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#update-channels)) required: true - label: I've searched [known issues](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766) and the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar issues **including closed ones**. DO NOT post duplicates required: true - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue) required: true - type: textarea id: description attributes: label: Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood description: See [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient) placeholder: Provide any additional information, any suggested solutions, and as much context and examples as possible validations: required: true - type: checkboxes id: verbose attributes: label: Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem options: - label: Run **your** yt-dlp command with **-vU** flag added (`yt-dlp -vU `) - label: "If using API, add `'verbose': True` to `YoutubeDL` params instead" required: false - label: Copy the WHOLE output (starting with `[debug] Command-line config`) and insert it below - type: textarea id: log attributes: label: Complete Verbose Output description: | It should start like this: placeholder: | [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp65001, fs utf-8, pref cp65001, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug] yt-dlp version nightly@... from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [b634ba742] (win_exe) [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-106550-g072101bd52-20220410 (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-106624-g391ce570c8-20220415, phantomjs 2.1.1 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests [debug] Loaded 1893 extractors [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/latest yt-dlp is up to date (nightly@... from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds) [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc render: shell - type: markdown attributes: value: | > [!CAUTION] > ### GitHub is experiencing a high volume of malicious spam comments. > ### If you receive any replies asking you download a file, do NOT follow the download links! > > Note that this issue may be temporarily locked as an anti-spam measure after it is opened.