yt-dlp/Maintainers.md

Maintainers

This file lists the maintainers of yt-dlp and their major contributions. See the Changelog for more details.

You can also find lists of all contributors of yt-dlp and authors of youtube-dl

Core Maintainers

Core Maintainers are responsible for reviewing and merging contributions, publishing releases, and steering the overall direction of the project.

You can contact the core maintainers via maintainers@yt-dlp.org.

coletdjnz

• Overhauled the networking stack and implemented support for requests and curl_cffi (--impersonate) HTTP clients
• Reworked the plugin architecture to support installing plugins across all yt-dlp distributions (exe, pip, etc.)
• Maintains support for YouTube
• Added and fixed support for various other sites

bashonly

• Rewrote and maintains the build/release workflows and the self-updater: executables, automated/nightly/master releases, --update-to
• Overhauled external downloader cookie handling
• Added --cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers
• Overhauled and maintains support for sites like Youtube, Vimeo, Twitter, TikTok, etc
• Added support for sites like Dacast, Kick, Loom, SproutVideo, Triller, Weverse, etc

Grub4K

• --update-to, self-updater rewrite, automated/nightly/master releases
• Reworked internals like traverse_obj, various core refactors and bugs fixes
• Implemented proper progress reporting for parallel downloads
• Improved/fixed/added Bundestag, crunchyroll, pr0gramm, Twitter, WrestleUniverse etc

sepro

• UX improvements: Warn when ffmpeg is missing, warn when double-clicking exe
• Code cleanup: Remove dead extractors, mark extractors as broken, enable/apply ruff rules
• Improved/fixed/added ArdMediathek, DRTV, Floatplane, MagentaMusik, Naver, Nebula, OnDemandKorea, Vbox7 etc

Inactive Core Maintainers

pukkandan

• Founder of the fork
• Lead Maintainer from 2021-2024

shirt

• Multithreading (-N) and aria2c support for fragment downloads
• Support for media initialization and discontinuity in HLS
• The self-updater (-U)

Ashish0804

• Added support for new websites BiliIntl, DiscoveryPlusIndia, OlympicsReplay, PlanetMarathi, ShemarooMe, Utreon, Zee5 etc
• Added playlist/series downloads for Hotstar, ParamountPlus, Rumble, SonyLIV, Trovo, TubiTv, Voot etc
• Improved/fixed support for HiDive, HotStar, Hungama, LBRY, LinkedInLearning, Mxplayer, SonyLiv, TV2, Vimeo, VLive etc

Triage Maintainers

Triage Maintainers are frequent contributors who can manage issues and pull requests.

• gamer191
• garret1317
• pzhlkj6612
• DTrombett
• doe1080
• grqz