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 [email protected]. This email address is NOT a support channel. Open an issue if you need help or want to report a bug.

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.)
Implemented support for external JavaScript runtimes/engines
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
Helped in implementing support for external JavaScript runtimes/engines
Added --cookies-from-browser support for Firefox containers
Maintains support for sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, TikTok, etc
Added support for various sites

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
Implemented support for external JavaScript runtimes/engines
Improved/fixed/added Bundestag, crunchyroll, pr0gramm, Twitter, WrestleUniverse 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

sepro

UX improvements: Warn when ffmpeg is missing, warn when double-clicking exe
Helped in implementing support for external JavaScript runtimes/engines
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

Triage Maintainers

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