[ie/youtube] Extract channel_follower_count for collaborators (#17363 )

To clarify the somewhat misleading subject line: this patch only extracts the 1st collaborator's channel_follower_count for videos with multiple collaborators. Closes #17360 Authored by: bashonly
[utils] random_user_agent: Bump version range 144-150 => 145-151 (#17344 )
2026-08-15 08:39:09 +03:00 · 2026-08-04 22:58:34 +00:00 · 2026-08-04 14:28:47 +00:00 · 2026-08-04 05:01:09 +00:00 · 2026-07-23 16:54:48 +00:00 · 2026-07-23 10:59:57 +00:00
48 changed files with 1818 additions and 1188 deletions
@@ -43,24 +43,29 @@ jobs:
    - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0  # v7.0.0
      with:
        persist-credentials: false
+
    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1  # v6.3.0
      with:
        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
        allow-prereleases: true
+
    - name: Install Deno
      uses: denoland/setup-deno@667a34cdef165d8d2b2e98dde39547c9daac7282  # v2.0.4
      with:
        deno-version: '2.3.0'  # minimum supported version
+
    - name: Install Bun
      uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@0c5077e51419868618aeaa5fe8019c62421857d6  # v2.2.0
      with:
        bun-version: '1.2.11'  # minimum supported version
        no-cache: true
+
    - name: Install Node
      uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e  # v6.4.0
      with:
        node-version: '22.0'  # minimum supported version
+
    - name: Install QuickJS (Linux)
      if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
      shell: bash
@@ -68,6 +73,7 @@ jobs:
        wget "https://bellard.org/quickjs/binary_releases/quickjs-linux-x86_64-${QJS_VERSION}.zip" -O quickjs.zip
        unzip quickjs.zip qjs
        sudo install qjs /usr/local/bin/qjs
+
    - name: Install QuickJS (Windows)
      if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
      shell: pwsh
@@ -76,12 +82,22 @@ jobs:
        $PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference = $true
        Invoke-WebRequest "https://bellard.org/quickjs/binary_releases/quickjs-win-x86_64-${Env:QJS_VERSION}.zip" -OutFile quickjs.zip
        unzip quickjs.zip
-    - name: Install test requirements
-      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Install test requirements (cpython)
+      if: ${{ !startsWith(matrix.python-version, 'pypy') }}
      run: |
        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/pip.txt"
        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/test.txt"
        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/default.txt"
+
+    - name: Install test requirements (PyPy)
+      if: ${{ startsWith(matrix.python-version, 'pypy') }}
+      run: |
+        # Upgrading/downgrading pip on Windows with actions/setup-python's PyPy can cause breakage
+        # See https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/1348
+        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/test.txt"
+        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/default.txt"
+
    - name: Run tests
      timeout-minutes: 15
      shell: bash
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ jobs:
    - name: Install test requirements (PyPy)
      if: ${{ startsWith(matrix.python-version, 'pypy') }}
      run: |
-        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/pip.txt"
+        # Upgrading/downgrading pip on Windows with actions/setup-python's PyPy can cause breakage
+        # See https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/1348
        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/test.txt"
        python -m pip install -U --require-hashes -r "bundle/requirements/default.txt"

@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ jobs:
          fi
          printf '\n\n%s\n\n%s%s%s\n\n---\n' \
            "#### A description of the various files is in the [README](https://github.com/${REPOSITORY}#release-files)" \
-            "The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. " \
+            "The zipimport Unix executable and release tarball contain code licensed under ISC and MIT. " \
            "The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to these and other licenses, all of which are compiled in " \
            "[THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt](https://github.com/${BASE_REPO}/blob/${HEAD_SHA}/THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt)" >> ./RELEASE_NOTES
          python ./devscripts/make_changelog.py -vv --collapsible >> ./RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -886,3 +886,16 @@ MemoKing34
 Suntooth
 Ventriduct
 vpertys
+billauer
+BOplaid
+dialmaster
+dreammu
+FranciscoPombal
+HybridDog
+longcharmroeun
+Masterjun3
+noseb13eds
+Sec-Wayne
+selfhoster1312
+tcely
+tewhalen
@@ -4,6 +4,101 @@
 # To create a release, dispatch the https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/actions/workflows/release.yml workflow on master
 -->

+### 2026.07.04
+
+#### Important changes
+- **The minimum *recommended* Python version has been raised to 3.11**
+        - Since Python 3.10 will reach its end-of-life in October 2026, support for it will be dropped soon. [Read more](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16916)
+- **The official Windows release binaries will soon require Windows 10 or later.** [Read more](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16917)
+- Security: [[CVE-2026-55404](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55404)] [Downstream command injection via improper sanitization of --write-link output](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-6v4j-43gg-vj32)
+        - Shortcut file data is now properly validated and sanitized when the `--write-link` options are used
+
+#### Core changes
+- [Always include warnings in debug output](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/d23e6f5a387d5933bc24e1eb5437da8fd563c1f0) ([#17059](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17059)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- [Fix `allow-unsafe-ext` compat option](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/e47691215f75fe7e9684080d17fadf340c9a8450) ([#16920](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16920)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- [Raise minimum recommended Python version to 3.11](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/7b03011294c0210802ffc901390006c39152b999) ([#17034](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17034)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- [Validate and escape values in `--write-link` output](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/b6590aaa1e3808155d69c9a79a797ae484163789) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- **cookies**: [Use `'` instead of `"` for SQL string quoting](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/7a569456f24fd9afcda09ae55c10d3bbd03f46ef) ([#17078](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17078)) by [Grub4K](https://github.com/Grub4K)
+- **utils**
+    - [Deprecate `make_dir` in favor of `make_parent_dirs`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/b05b408d10ebf8f4c47c0db1236eb713b6ad7ab6) ([#16931](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16931)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - `HTTPHeaderDict`: [Fix `__ior__`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/cb309b3293c9919cfb55f5d9ffa2c8c109a5f1eb) ([#16930](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16930)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - `parse_duration`: [Return `int` when appropriate](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/e584a65f2a0feee0c6c363b3309e9ebd6065f6b4) ([#13899](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13899)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - `parse_resolution`: [Support fps suffixes](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/1249676e98aecf2131901f10f0230fb5e1bdc17e) ([#17073](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17073)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - `pkcs1pad`: [Fix invalid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding bytes](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/25a05fc0e24ebda38578e87c3f6772a149522786) ([#17035](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17035)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - `qualities`: [Avoid repeated index lookups](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/3cf981af60dd0b1b6c40807fb542d68ddb0a5f84) ([#17025](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17025)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - `random_user_agent`: [Bump version range 143-149 => 144-150](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/d120d841dde18839f28cba4a8b0df6d3c4fc6761) ([#17117](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17117)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly), [dlp-bot](https://github.com/dlp-bot)
+
+#### Extractor changes
+- [Always include `id` in request error output](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/af8a3f34370c82f323ed30074e3fe741ebcc98ca) ([#17068](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17068)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly), [HybridDog](https://github.com/HybridDog)
+- [Fix request logging](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c13e2f8a20fc1fafb31cba4e6287c874bc0c0cc0) ([#17072](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17072)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- **arte**: [Fix playlist support](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/16bdcc525e6a550781d65d6fed92a37800ad95e1) ([#13191](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13191)) by [1100101](https://github.com/1100101)
+- **bandcamp**: weekly: [Fix extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/a541df1ea5a593abf3ceaf94ed806e4b52a2c459) ([#16925](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16925)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly) (With fixes in [9055188](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/9055188250348c3e6e29eee53e5fb3dc2c951977))
+- **bilibili**: [Fix API extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/e8de28e23c1ecb4a12b2c3dec188c07e998c412c) ([#13730](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13730)) by [grqz](https://github.com/grqz)
+- **instagram**
+    - [Detect when cookies are invalidated](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/ac4c955ea93f35a3a426903141436a6468bddf9f) ([#17126](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17126)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+    - [Rework extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f49b551a0c4c25358d2afaeda4ee63989d2d56ab) ([#17075](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17075)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly) (With fixes in [8b8e3e3](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8b8e3e3cb4d3ba0dedf7b1fd00ce68f07da7e588))
+- **linkedin**: [Remove broken login support](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/a5e0f87140c6ea73ad3f34914339e873681b4dca) ([#17039](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17039)) by [0xvd](https://github.com/0xvd)
+- **mgtv**: [Fix VIP stream extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/6b67e1f2b77feb6d97852be08bfc2e0ab1c8aef0) ([#16982](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16982)) by [longcharmroeun](https://github.com/longcharmroeun)
+- **mxplayer**
+    - [Fix extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/01f4f06fdd1e1e088981fa4af3422806aefa0c2a) ([#16988](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16988)) by [0xvd](https://github.com/0xvd)
+    - [Rework extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/55a58debec7fa5bbaa119dfbc874fb84dd48c76e) ([#17018](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17018)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **niconico**
+    - [Fix error detection](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c4f94545c9d3ce356f2f3149c8fde2134073cee2) ([#16991](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16991)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - [Support shorts](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/4af5541bb56b08d462f32773dfa15c207de13b74) ([#16992](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16992)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **omnyfm**: [Add extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/fa383a9efa02c2f89aba315b17e47fb6bf9e5bee) ([#15942](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15942)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **openrec**: [Rework extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/5aa335ecd9d12251b63b5afb23e166ea63cd7271) ([#16857](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16857)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080) (With fixes in [6694ef8](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/6694ef82993396847e5a66802634c12944c42a5e))
+- **patreon**: [Support new URL format](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/707537a03946fbc5707e22be429545c670cd8ec2) ([#16926](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16926)) by [0xvd](https://github.com/0xvd)
+- **peertube**: [Support password-protected videos](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/a2483524fbf9c1f5406774622d8d048430b320e9) ([#16873](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16873)) by [selfhoster1312](https://github.com/selfhoster1312)
+- **periscope**: [Improve metadata extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/2b27a203f7573cb491c8bef77cb4d944cee6f8cf) ([#16084](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16084)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **reddit**: [Remove broken login support](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/917dad55e5b4dbf88d61541477d1830740ab3115) ([#17038](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17038)) by [0xvd](https://github.com/0xvd)
+- **soundcloud**
+    - [Extract `uploader_url` for playlists](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f69e64a954524518add538648f6327611349ead4) ([#16842](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16842)) by [noseb13eds](https://github.com/noseb13eds)
+    - [Extract comments](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/785e507ef06b709f7f68744f29c16a5cdb8942f2) ([#16938](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16938)) by [0xvd](https://github.com/0xvd)
+    - [Improve metadata extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8bdfbfd4461a643e5c37a232b0efd7bcd86a3091) ([#17088](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17088)) by [noseb13eds](https://github.com/noseb13eds)
+- **streaks**: [Fix extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/26654a359d8d8dbe3c95b8fc6b0b09aca9a17fba) ([#16413](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16413)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **svt**: [Fix extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c84b2c6736ac5fac6c3eb9a0cbbeee4d6ed84fdd) ([#16288](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16288)) by [billauer](https://github.com/billauer), [dirkf](https://github.com/dirkf)
+- **telewebion**: [Fix extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/24aecad5df6090ef9c2a9deff27a7182c5164f07) ([#16986](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16986)) by [BOplaid](https://github.com/BOplaid)
+- **trovo**: [Remove dead extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/acc995cf9137918568857d39b68a94498726543a) ([#16353](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16353)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **truth**: [Support share URLs](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/e7b5d68f372499167fbf9711de42d3180a92e4de) ([#16096](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16096)) by [InvalidUsernameException](https://github.com/InvalidUsernameException)
+- **tviplayer**: [Fix extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/9ae7df9a22b29e2f81825230c9bba7d444190de0) ([#16527](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16527)) by [FranciscoPombal](https://github.com/FranciscoPombal)
+- **unsupported**: [Update unsupported sites](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/5678b282e2a17a8181e682a9681461b9c82ff008) ([#17085](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17085)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- **wrestleuniverse**: vod: [Fix extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/498e51f5da47539f3b4cc52ff85be5f33e7e9d2f) ([#16685](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16685)) by [0xvd](https://github.com/0xvd), [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly), [Sec-Wayne](https://github.com/Sec-Wayne), [tewhalen](https://github.com/tewhalen)
+- **youtube**
+    - [Fix `extract_relative_time` for abbreviated units](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/6a24c96f7f61e5e651466cc3d4c6a30982318efe) ([#16687](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16687)) by [dialmaster](https://github.com/dialmaster)
+    - [Fix detection of forced preroll wait time](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/3c279b33cb6d1133624a468e71560c6a75039586) ([#17062](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17062)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+    - [Fix minor issues](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/57528faa361314a69d47aead8f44c6a5380ca66a) ([#17060](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17060)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - [Support live adaptive formats](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8c1f07d813175cbcf84651f27a827bad84fd8184) ([#16771](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16771)) by [dreammu](https://github.com/dreammu)
+    - tab
+        - [Fix flat extraction of collaborators](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/a75ba96fa48522738b91a907773a6fa9efe6e2d4) ([#17045](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17045)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+        - [Fix flat playlist metadata extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/ad6b5f4b3552472c17b3955a3f1525296bed6137) ([#16965](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16965)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+        - [Fix metadata extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/d6c411bcd0a0519a0db3b330df2530c8213eb9f0) ([#16976](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16976)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+        - [Fix pagination](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/b23046bbc8e53f32a3853dc33138f2986f3aed06) ([#16948](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16948)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+- **zan**: [Add extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/ad9a6f25f69344ebc060f7be223e5c19fc03e9b5) ([#16086](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16086)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+- **zdf**: [Detect livestreams](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/cfee151fcd9e1a0f4e5af9ca8440f1253cb70b88) ([#16954](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16954)) by [InvalidUsernameException](https://github.com/InvalidUsernameException)
+- **zoom**: clips: [Add extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/4a6296248fb6218d77221da4e5421c84bbc792d4) ([#17005](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17005)) by [Bnyro](https://github.com/Bnyro)
+
+#### Downloader changes
+- **external**
+    - [Fix resuming downloads with aria2c](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/500e54cf860e4807d259bfe6a7abb47e51364a3b) ([#11698](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11698)) by [tcely](https://github.com/tcely)
+    - `curl`: [Support development versions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/7937a139cf3e1e1ccd1b277f18ab73fc6dec06a7) ([#16922](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16922)) by [syphyr](https://github.com/syphyr)
+- **mhtml**: [Fix storyboard content-length calculation](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8902f6ba8c7baba8fb43fb08ea1a9ddfef77e998) ([#13998](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13998)) by [Masterjun3](https://github.com/Masterjun3)
+
+#### Misc. changes
+- **build**
+    - [Update 17 dependencies](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8a5f1dd3bd39ad2e917755a29b313a51b5446871) ([#17014](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17014)) by [dlp-bot](https://github.com/dlp-bot)
+    - [Update 6 dependencies](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/40dd052c03c2d1b5c180f393d9344be2bd718ba3) ([#17086](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17086)) by [dlp-bot](https://github.com/dlp-bot)
+- **ci**
+    - [Add label handler workflow](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/1472d1098020d46ea1f15940b80d515ad13eb420) ([#17128](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17128)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+    - [Bump actions/checkout v6.0.3 => v7.0.0](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/da99b21b2d6e32690d1871afc9e9779701dd7f8c) ([#17015](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17015)) by [dlp-bot](https://github.com/dlp-bot)
+    - [Update 5 actions in 8 workflows](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/84db5246faab5bffb8909de60c75e7c692b5dd79) ([#17024](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17024)) by [dlp-bot](https://github.com/dlp-bot)
+- **cleanup**
+    - [Fix invalid info dict fields](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/98036ccd4fd9a6b15e025bbc164e27286e342be7) ([#17007](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17007)) by [seproDev](https://github.com/seproDev)
+    - [Fix minor mistakes](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/b0472c3bce71eb08996a8d70c4c1b1df8cad4042) ([#17083](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17083)) by [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+    - [Remove RTSP and MMS support](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/bed3d58c5c1ff088584c5dac3c16eea4ff01c7b5) ([#17030](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17030)) by [seproDev](https://github.com/seproDev)
+    - [Replace dead example/test URL](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c102b2096525218a6918a46b415fb167786f9656) ([#17061](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17061)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+    - Miscellaneous: [997fa14](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/997fa140840a08df3938b40da470c78049fef1f6) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly), [seproDev](https://github.com/seproDev)
+- **docs**: [Make "No AI / No LLM Policy" abundantly clear](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/249aa5d6e667308fbf95ae5cfb40eba8177a802c) ([#16285](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16285)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
+
 ### 2026.06.09

 #### Important changes
@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ Core Maintainers are responsible for reviewing and merging contributions, publis
 * Improved/fixed/added ArdMediathek, DRTV, Floatplane, MagentaMusik, Naver, Nebula, OnDemandKorea, Vbox7 etc


+## Maintainers
+
+Maintainers are stewards of the project's codebase who can review and merge pull requests.
+
+- [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
+
+
 ## Triage Maintainers

 Triage Maintainers are frequent contributors who can manage issues and pull requests.
@@ -86,5 +93,4 @@ Triage Maintainers are frequent contributors who can manage issues and pull requ
 - [garret1317](https://github.com/garret1317)
 - [pzhlkj6612](https://github.com/pzhlkj6612)
 - [DTrombett](https://github.com/dtrombett)
- [doe1080](https://github.com/doe1080)
 - [grqz](https://github.com/grqz)
@@ -142,11 +142,11 @@ While yt-dlp is licensed under the [Unlicense](LICENSE), many of the release fil

 Most notably, the PyInstaller-bundled executables include GPLv3+ licensed code, and as such the combined work is licensed under [GPLv3+](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html).

-The zipimport Unix executable (`yt-dlp`) contains [ISC](https://github.com/meriyah/meriyah/blob/main/LICENSE.md) licensed code from [`meriyah`](https://github.com/meriyah/meriyah) and [MIT](https://github.com/davidbonnet/astring/blob/main/LICENSE) licensed code from [`astring`](https://github.com/davidbonnet/astring).
+The zipimport Unix executable (`yt-dlp`) and release tarball (`yt-dlp.tar.gz`) contain [ISC](https://github.com/meriyah/meriyah/blob/main/LICENSE.md) licensed code from [`meriyah`](https://github.com/meriyah/meriyah) and [MIT](https://github.com/davidbonnet/astring/blob/main/LICENSE) licensed code from [`astring`](https://github.com/davidbonnet/astring).

 See [THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt](THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt) for more details.

-The git repository, the source tarball (`yt-dlp.tar.gz`), the PyPI source distribution and the PyPI built distribution (wheel) only contain code licensed under the [Unlicense](LICENSE).
+The git repository, the PyPI source distribution and the PyPI built distribution (wheel) only contain code licensed under the [Unlicense](LICENSE).

 <!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->

@@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ The following provide support for impersonating browser requests. This may be re
 ### Deprecated

 * [**rtmpdump**](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu) - For downloading `rtmp` streams. ffmpeg can be used instead with `--downloader ffmpeg`. Licensed under [GPLv2+](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu)
-* [**mplayer**](http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html) or [**mpv**](https://mpv.io) - For downloading `rstp`/`mms` streams. ffmpeg can be used instead with `--downloader ffmpeg`. Licensed under [GPLv2+](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/Copyright)

 To use or redistribute the dependencies, you must agree to their respective licensing terms.

@@ -625,16 +624,16 @@ Tip: Use `CTRL`+`F` (or `Command`+`F`)  to search by keywords
                                    "*10:15-inf" --download-sections "intro"
    --downloader [PROTO:]NAME       Name or path of the external downloader to
                                    use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols
-                                    (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to
-                                    use it for. Currently supports native,
-                                    aria2c, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie, wget.
-                                    You can use this option multiple times to
-                                    set different downloaders for different
-                                    protocols. E.g. --downloader aria2c
-                                    --downloader "dash,m3u8:native" will use
-                                    aria2c for http/ftp downloads, and the
-                                    native downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads
-                                    (Alias: --external-downloader)
+                                    (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rtmp) to use it for.
+                                    Currently supports native, aria2c, axel,
+                                    curl, ffmpeg, httpie, wget. You can use this
+                                    option multiple times to set different
+                                    downloaders for different protocols. E.g.
+                                    --downloader aria2c --downloader
+                                    "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for
+                                    http/ftp downloads, and the native
+                                    downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads (Alias:
+                                    --external-downloader)
    --downloader-args NAME:ARGS     Give these arguments to the external
                                    downloader. Specify the downloader name and
                                    the arguments separated by a colon ":". For
@@ -1587,7 +1586,7 @@ Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `^=` (starts with), `$=` (ends
 - `acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
 - `vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
 - `container`: Name of the container format
- - `protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (`http`, `https`, `rtsp`, `rtmp`, `rtmpe`, `mms`, `f4m`, `ism`, `http_dash_segments`, `m3u8`, or `m3u8_native`)
+ - `protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (`http`, `https`, `rtmp`, `rtmpe`, `f4m`, `ism`, `http_dash_segments`, `m3u8`, or `m3u8_native`)
 - `language`: Language code
 - `dynamic_range`: The dynamic range of the video
 - `format_id`: A short description of the format
@@ -1615,7 +1614,7 @@ The available fields are:
 - `lang`: The language preference as determined by the extractor (e.g. original language preferred over audio description)
 - `quality`: The quality of the format
 - `source`: The preference of the source
- - `proto`: Protocol used for download (`https`/`ftps` > `http`/`ftp` > `m3u8_native`/`m3u8` > `http_dash_segments`> `websocket_frag` > `mms`/`rtsp` > `f4f`/`f4m`)
+ - `proto`: Protocol used for download (`https`/`ftps` > `http`/`ftp` > `m3u8_native`/`m3u8` > `http_dash_segments`> `websocket_frag` > `f4f`/`f4m`)
 - `vcodec`: Video Codec (`av01` > `vp9.2` > `vp9` > `h265` > `h264` > `vp8` > `h263` > `theora` > other)
 - `acodec`: Audio Codec (`flac`/`alac` > `wav`/`aiff` > `opus` > `vorbis` > `aac` > `mp4a` > `mp3` > `ac4` > `eac3` > `ac3` > `dts` > other)
 - `codec`: Equivalent to `vcodec,acodec`
@@ -1860,7 +1859,7 @@ The following extractors use this feature:
 #### youtube
 * `lang`: Prefer translated metadata (`title`, `description` etc) of this language code (case-sensitive). By default, the video primary language metadata is preferred, with a fallback to `en` translated. See [youtube/_base.py](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/415b4c9f955b1a0391204bd24a7132590e7b3bdb/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_base.py#L402-L409) for the list of supported content language codes
 * `skip`: One or more of `hls`, `dash` or `translated_subs` to skip extraction of the m3u8 manifests, dash manifests and [auto-translated subtitles](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/4090#issuecomment-1158102032) respectively
-* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The currently available clients are `web`, `web_safari`, `web_embedded`, `web_music`, `web_creator`, `mweb`, `ios`, `android`, `android_vr`, `tv`, `tv_downgraded`, and `tv_simply`. By default, `android_vr,web_safari` is used. If no JavaScript runtime/engine is available, then only `android_vr` is used. If logged-in cookies are passed to yt-dlp, then `tv_downgraded,web_safari` is used for free accounts and `tv_downgraded,web_creator` is used for premium accounts. The `web_music` client is added for `music.youtube.com` URLs when logged-in cookies are used. The `web_embedded` client is added for age-restricted videos but only successfully works around the age-restriction sometimes (e.g. if the video is embeddable), and may be added as a fallback if `android_vr` is unable to access a video. The `web_creator` client is added for age-restricted videos if account age-verification is required. Some clients, such as `web_creator` and `web_music`, require a `po_token` for their formats to be downloadable. Some clients, such as `web_creator`, will only work with authentication. Not all clients support authentication via cookies. You can use `default` for the default clients, or you can use `all` for all clients (not recommended). You can prefix a client with `-` to exclude it, e.g. `youtube:player_client=default,-web_safari`
+* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The currently available clients are `web`, `web_safari`, `web_embedded`, `web_music`, `web_creator`, `mweb`, `ios`, `visionos`, `android`, `android_vr`, `tv`, `tv_downgraded`, and `tv_simply`. By default, `visionos,android_vr,web` is used. If no JavaScript runtime/engine is available, then `web` is omitted. If logged-in cookies are passed to yt-dlp, then `tv_downgraded,web` is used for free accounts and `tv_downgraded,web_creator,web` is used for premium accounts. The `web_music` client is added for `music.youtube.com` URLs when logged-in cookies are used. The `web_embedded` client is added for age-restricted videos but only successfully works around the age-restriction sometimes (e.g. if the video is embeddable). The `tv_downgraded` client may be added as a fallback if `android_vr` or `visionos` is unable to access a video. The `web_creator` client is added for age-restricted videos if account age-verification is required. Some clients, such as `web_creator` and `web_music`, require a `po_token` for their formats to be downloadable. Some clients, such as `web_creator`, will only work with authentication. Not all clients support authentication via cookies. You can use `default` for the default clients, or you can use `all` for all clients (not recommended). You can prefix a client with `-` to exclude it, e.g. `youtube:player_client=default,-web`
 * `player_skip`: Skip some network requests that are generally needed for robust extraction. One or more of `configs` (skip client configs), `webpage` (skip initial webpage), `js` (skip js player), `initial_data` (skip initial data/next ep request). While these options can help reduce the number of requests needed or avoid some rate-limiting, they could cause issues such as missing formats or metadata.  See [#860](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/860) and [#12826](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12826) for more details
 * `webpage_skip`: Skip extraction of embedded webpage data. One or both of `player_response`, `initial_data`. These options are for testing purposes and don't skip any network requests. Neither is skipped by default; however, if a `player_js_version` value other than `actual` is used, then `webpage_skip=player_response` is implied
 * `webpage_client`: Client to use for the video webpage request. One of `web` or `web_safari` (default)
@@ -1871,7 +1870,7 @@ The following extractors use this feature:
 * `max_comments`: Limit the amount of comments to gather. Comma-separated list of integers representing `max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread,max-depth`. Default is `all,all,all,all,all`
    * A `max-depth` value of `1` will discard all replies, regardless of the `max-replies` or `max-replies-per-thread` values given
    * E.g. `all,all,1000,10,2` will get a maximum of 1000 replies total, with up to 10 replies per thread, and only 2 levels of depth (i.e. top-level comments plus their immediate replies). `1000,all,100` will get a maximum of 1000 comments, with a maximum of 100 replies total
-* `formats`: Change the types of formats to return. `dashy` (convert HTTP to DASH), `duplicate` (identical content but different URLs or protocol; includes `dashy`), `incomplete` (cannot be downloaded completely - live dash, live adaptive https, and post-live m3u8), `missing_pot` (include formats that require a PO Token but are missing one)
+* `formats`: Change the types of formats to return. `dashy` (convert HTTP to DASH), `duplicate` (identical content but different URLs or protocol; includes `dashy`), `incomplete` (cannot be downloaded completely - live and post-live dash, post-live m3u8, and live adaptive https without --live-from-start), `missing_pot` (include formats that require a PO Token but are missing one)
 * `innertube_host`: Innertube API host to use for all API requests; e.g. `studio.youtube.com`, `youtubei.googleapis.com`. Note that cookies exported from one subdomain will not work on others
 * `innertube_key`: Innertube API key to use for all API requests. By default, no API key is used
 * `raise_incomplete_data`: `Incomplete Data Received` raises an error instead of reporting a warning
@@ -1976,7 +1975,7 @@ The following extractors use this feature:
 * `backend`: Backend API to use for extraction - one of `streaks` (default) or `brightcove` (deprecated)

 #### vimeo
-* `client`: Client to extract video data from. The currently available clients are `android`, `ios`, `macos` and `web`. Only one client can be used. The `macos` client is used by default, but the `web` client is used when logged-in. The `web` client only works with account cookies or login credentials. The `android` and `ios` clients only work with previously cached OAuth tokens
+* `client`: Client to extract video data from. The currently available clients are `android`, `macos_basic`, and `web`. Only one client can be used. The `macos_basic` client is used by default, but the `web` client is used when logged-in. The `web` client only works with account cookies or login credentials. The `android` client only works with previously cached OAuth tokens
 * `original_format_policy`: Policy for when to try extracting original formats. One of `always`, `never`, or `auto`. The default `auto` policy tries to avoid exceeding the web client's API rate-limit by only making an extra request when Vimeo publicizes the video's downloadability

 #### zan
@@ -38,11 +38,16 @@ def main():
        f'--name={name}',
        '--icon=devscripts/logo.ico',
        '--upx-exclude=vcruntime140.dll',
+        # setuptools and packaging are PyInstaller runtime dependencies,
+        # but would be collected due to cffi's imports if we don't exclude
+        '--exclude-module=setuptools',
+        '--exclude-module=packaging',
        # Ref: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13311
        #      https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/9149
        '--exclude-module=pkg_resources',
        '--noconfirm',
        '--additional-hooks-dir=yt_dlp/__pyinstaller',
+        '--add-data=THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt:.',
        *opts,
        'yt_dlp/__main__.py',
    ]
@@ -367,5 +367,24 @@
        "action": "add",
        "when": "25056f0d2d47adbd235a8d422fa62d68d0be2bc2",
        "short": "[priority] Security: [[CVE-2026-50574](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50574)] [Arbitrary code execution via manifest downloads with aria2c](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-vx4q-3cr2-7cg2)\n        - Impact is limited to users of `--downloader aria2c`\n        - Support for downloading HLS and DASH formats with aria2c has been removed. Users affected by this change should migrate to use `-N` for concurrent fragment downloads via the native downloader"
+    },
+    {
+        "action": "add",
+        "when": "7b03011294c0210802ffc901390006c39152b999",
+        "short": "[priority] **The minimum *recommended* Python version has been raised to 3.11**\n        - Since Python 3.10 will reach its end-of-life in October 2026, support for it will be dropped soon. [Read more](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16916)"
+    },
+    {
+        "action": "add",
+        "when": "7b03011294c0210802ffc901390006c39152b999",
+        "short": "[priority] **The official Windows release binaries will soon require Windows 10 or later.** [Read more](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16917)"
+    },
+    {
+        "action": "add",
+        "when": "b6590aaa1e3808155d69c9a79a797ae484163789",
+        "short": "[priority] Security: [[CVE-2026-55404](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55404)] [Downstream command injection via improper sanitization of --write-link output](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-6v4j-43gg-vj32)\n        - Shortcut file data is now properly validated and sanitized when the `--write-link` options are used"
+    },
+    {
+        "action": "remove",
+        "when": "a8be438aac1b90c3888e974056d967b8be90fa7e"
    }
 ]
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ HEADER = '''THIRD-PARTY LICENSES
 This file aggregates license texts of third-party components included with the yt-dlp PyInstaller-bundled executables.
 yt-dlp itself is licensed under the Unlicense (see LICENSE file).
 Source code for bundled third-party components is available from the original projects.
-If you cannot obtain it, the maintainers will provide it as per license obligation; maintainer emails are listed in pyproject.toml.'''
+If you cannot obtain it, the maintainers will provide it as per license obligation: email maintainers@yt-dlp.org'''


@dataclass(frozen=True)
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ DEPENDENCIES: list[Dependency] = [
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libffi/libffi/refs/heads/master/LICENSE',
        project_url='https://sourceware.org/libffi/',
    ),
+    Dependency(
+        name='OpenSSL 1.x',
+        license='OpenSSL',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openssl/openssl/refs/tags/OpenSSL_1_1_1t/LICENSE',
+        comment='Only included in `yt-dlp.exe` and `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://www.openssl.org/',
+    ),
    Dependency(
        name='OpenSSL 3.0+',
        license='Apache-2.0',
@@ -123,43 +130,79 @@ DEPENDENCIES: list[Dependency] = [
        name='libintl',
        license='LGPL-2.1-or-later',
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/autotools-mirror/gettext/refs/heads/master/gettext-runtime/intl/COPYING.LIB',
-        comment='Only included in macOS builds',
+        comment='Only included in Linux builds',
        project_url='https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/',
    ),
    Dependency(
        name='libidn2',
        license='LGPL-3.0-or-later',
        license_url='https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/-/raw/master/COPYING.LESSERv3',
-        comment='Only included in macOS builds',
+        comment='Only included in Linux builds',
        project_url='https://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/',
    ),
    Dependency(
        name='libidn2 (Unicode character data files)',
        license='Unicode-TOU AND Unicode-DFS-2016',
        license_url='https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/-/raw/master/COPYING.unicode',
-        comment='Only included in macOS builds',
+        comment='Only included in Linux builds',
        project_url='https://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/',
    ),
    Dependency(
        name='libunistring',
        license='LGPL-3.0-or-later',
        license_url='https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunistring.git;a=blob_plain;f=COPYING.LIB;hb=HEAD',
-        comment='Only included in macOS builds',
+        comment='Only included in Linux builds',
        project_url='https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/',
    ),
+
+    # Non-Python dependencies of curl_cffi
    Dependency(
-        name='librtmp',
-        license='LGPL-2.1-or-later',
-        # No official repo URL
-        license_url='https://gist.githubusercontent.com/seproDev/31d8c691ccddebe37b8b379307cb232d/raw/053408e98547ea8c7d9ba3a80c965f33e163b881/librtmp_COPYING.txt',
-        comment='Only included in macOS builds',
-        project_url='https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/',
+        name='curl-impersonate',
+        license='MIT',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate',
+    ),
+    Dependency(
+        name='curl',
+        license='curl',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/curl/curl/refs/heads/master/LICENSES/curl.txt',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://curl.se/',
+    ),
+    Dependency(
+        name='BoringSSL',
+        license='Apache-2.0',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/boringssl/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl',
+    ),
+    Dependency(
+        name='nghttp2',
+        license='MIT',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/refs/heads/master/COPYING',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://nghttp2.org/',
+    ),
+    Dependency(
+        name='ngtcp2',
+        license='MIT',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/refs/heads/main/COPYING',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://nghttp2.org/ngtcp2/',
+    ),
+    Dependency(
+        name='nghttp3',
+        license='MIT',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngtcp2/nghttp3/refs/heads/main/COPYING',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://nghttp2.org/nghttp3/',
    ),
    Dependency(
        name='zstd',
        license='BSD-3-Clause',
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/refs/heads/dev/LICENSE',
-        comment='Only included in macOS builds',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
        project_url='https://facebook.github.io/zstd/',
    ),

@@ -174,28 +217,74 @@ DEPENDENCIES: list[Dependency] = [
        name='curl_cffi',
        license='MIT',
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
-        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86` and `yt-dlp_musllinux_aarch64` builds',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
        project_url='https://curl-cffi.readthedocs.io/',
    ),
+    # curl_cffi vendored code:
+    # - https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi/blob/v0.15.0/curl_cffi/_asyncio_selector.py
+    Dependency(
+        name='Tornado',
+        license='Apache-2.0',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tornadoweb/tornado/master/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='http://www.tornadoweb.org/',
+    ),
+    # curl_cffi vendored code:
+    # - https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi/blob/v0.15.0/curl_cffi/requests/cookies.py
+    # - https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi/blob/v0.15.0/curl_cffi/requests/headers.py
+    Dependency(
+        name='httpx',
+        license='BSD-3-Clause',
+        license_url='https://github.com/encode/httpx/raw/master/LICENSE.md',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://www.python-httpx.org/',
+    ),
    # Dependency of curl_cffi
    Dependency(
-        name='curl-impersonate',
+        name='rich',
        license='MIT',
-        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
-        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86` and `yt-dlp_musllinux_aarch64` builds',
-        project_url='https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Textualize/rich/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://rich.readthedocs.io/',
    ),
+    # Dependency of rich
+    Dependency(
+        name='pygments',
+        license='BSD-2-Clause',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pygments/pygments/refs/heads/master/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='http://pygments.org/',
+    ),
+    # Dependency of rich
+    Dependency(
+        name='markdown-it-py',
+        license='MIT',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py/refs/heads/master/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://markdown-it-py.readthedocs.io/',
+    ),
+    # Dependency of markdown-it-py
+    Dependency(
+        name='mdurl',
+        license='MIT',
+        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/executablebooks/mdurl/refs/heads/master/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
+        project_url='https://github.com/executablebooks/mdurl',
+    ),
+    # Dependency of cryptography and curl_cffi
    Dependency(
        name='cffi',
        license='MIT-0',  # Technically does not need to be included
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-cffi/cffi/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
        project_url='https://cffi.readthedocs.io/',
    ),
-    # Dependecy of cffi
+    # Dependency of cffi
    Dependency(
        name='pycparser',
        license='BSD-3-Clause',
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eliben/pycparser/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
+        comment='Not included in `yt-dlp_x86.exe` Windows builds',
        project_url='https://github.com/eliben/pycparser',
    ),
    Dependency(
@@ -276,12 +365,14 @@ DEPENDENCIES: list[Dependency] = [
        name='Meriyah',
        license='ISC',
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meriyah/meriyah/refs/heads/main/LICENSE.md',
+        comment='Also included in `yt-dlp` zipimport Unix executables and `yt-dlp.tar.gz` release tarballs',
        project_url='https://github.com/meriyah/meriyah',
    ),
    Dependency(
        name='Astring',
        license='MIT',
        license_url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidbonnet/astring/refs/heads/main/LICENSE',
+        comment='Also included in `yt-dlp` zipimport Unix executables and `yt-dlp.tar.gz` release tarballs',
        project_url='https://github.com/davidbonnet/astring/',
    ),
 ]
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **AcFunVideo**
 - **ADN**: [*animationdigitalnetwork*](## "netrc machine") Animation Digital Network
 - **ADNSeason**: [*animationdigitalnetwork*](## "netrc machine") Animation Digital Network
- - **AdobeConnect**
+ - **AdobeConnect**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **adobetv**
 - **AdultSwim**
 - **aenetworks**: A+E Networks: A&E, Lifetime, History.com, FYI Network and History Vault
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **DeuxMNews**
 - **DHM**: Filmarchiv - Deutsches Historisches Museum (**Currently broken**)
 - **DigitalConcertHall**: [*digitalconcerthall*](## "netrc machine") DigitalConcertHall extractor
- - **DigitallySpeaking**
+ - **DigitallySpeaking**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **Digiteka**
 - **Digiview**
 - **DiscogsReleasePlaylist**
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **Flickr**
 - **Floatplane**
 - **FloatplaneChannel**
- - **Folketinget**: Folketinget (ft.dk; Danish parliament)
+ - **Folketinget**: Folketinget (ft.dk; Danish parliament) (**Currently broken**)
 - **FoodNetwork**
 - **FootyRoom**
 - **Formula1**
@@ -504,7 +504,6 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **GoDiscovery**
 - **GodResource**
 - **GodTube**: (**Currently broken**)
- - **Gofile**
 - **Golem**
 - **goodgame:stream**
 - **GoogleDrive**
@@ -620,7 +619,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **Kakao**
 - **Kaltura**
 - **KankaNews**: (**Currently broken**)
- - **Karaoketv**
+ - **Karaoketv**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **Katsomo**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **KelbyOne**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **Kenh14Playlist**
@@ -679,10 +678,10 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **life:embed**
 - **likee**
 - **likee:user**
- - **LinkedIn**: [*linkedin*](## "netrc machine")
- - **linkedin:events**: [*linkedin*](## "netrc machine")
- - **linkedin:learning**: [*linkedin*](## "netrc machine")
- - **linkedin:learning:course**: [*linkedin*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **LinkedIn**
+ - **linkedin:events**
+ - **linkedin:learning**
+ - **linkedin:learning:course**
 - **Liputan6**
 - **ListenNotes**
 - **LiTV**
@@ -743,6 +742,12 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **megatvcom**: megatv.com videos
 - **megatvcom:embed**: megatv.com embedded videos
 - **Meipai**: 美拍
+ - **mellowfan**: [*mellowfan*](## "netrc machine") mellow-fan
+ - **mellowfan:capture**: [*mellowfan*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **mellowfan:channel**: [*mellowfan*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **mellowfan:channel:search**: [*mellowfan*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **mellowfan:movie**: [*mellowfan*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **mellowfan:playlist**: [*mellowfan*](## "netrc machine")
 - **MelonVOD**
 - **Metacritic**
 - **mewatch**
@@ -797,8 +802,9 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **Mx3**
 - **Mx3Neo**
 - **Mx3Volksmusik**
- - **Mxplayer**
- - **MxplayerShow**
+ - **mxplayer**: Amazon MX Player
+ - **mxplayer:season**
+ - **mxplayer:show**
 - **MySpace**
 - **MySpace:album**
 - **MySpass**
@@ -939,8 +945,11 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **Odnoklassniki**
 - **OfTV**
 - **OfTVPlaylist**
- - **OktoberfestTV**
+ - **OktoberfestTV**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **OlympicsReplay**
+ - **Omnyfm**
+ - **OmnyfmPlaylist**
+ - **OmnyfmShow**
 - **on24**: ON24
 - **OnDemandChinaEpisode**
 - **OnDemandKorea**
@@ -954,9 +963,6 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **onsen**: [*onsen*](## "netrc machine") インターネットラジオステーション＜音泉＞
 - **Opencast**
 - **OpencastPlaylist**
- - **openrec**
- - **openrec:capture**
- - **openrec:movie**
 - **orf:fm4:story**: fm4.orf.at stories
 - **orf:iptv**: iptv.ORF.at
 - **orf:on**
@@ -1014,7 +1020,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **player.sky.it**
 - **PlayerFm**
 - **PlaySuisse**: [*playsuisse*](## "netrc machine")
- - **Playtvak**: Playtvak.cz, iDNES.cz and Lidovky.cz
+ - **Playtvak**: Playtvak.cz, iDNES.cz and Lidovky.cz (**Currently broken**)
 - **PlayVids**
 - **pluralsight**: [*pluralsight*](## "netrc machine")
 - **pluralsight:course**
@@ -1121,7 +1127,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **RedBullEmbed**
 - **RedBullTV**
 - **RedBullTVRrnContent**
- - **Reddit**: [*reddit*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **Reddit**
 - **RedGifs**
 - **RedGifsSearch**: Redgifs search
 - **RedGifsUser**: Redgifs user
@@ -1153,7 +1159,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **rtl.lu:article**
 - **rtl.lu:tele-vod**
 - **rtl.nl**: rtl.nl and rtlxl.nl
- - **rtl2**
+ - **rtl2**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **RTLLuLive**
 - **RTLLuRadio**
 - **RTNews**
@@ -1231,7 +1237,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **SharePoint**
 - **ShemarooMe**
 - **Shiey**
- - **ShowRoomLive**
+ - **ShowRoomLive**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **ShugiinItvLive**: 衆議院インターネット審議中継
 - **ShugiinItvLiveRoom**: 衆議院インターネット審議中継 (中継)
 - **ShugiinItvVod**: 衆議院インターネット審議中継 (ビデオライブラリ)
@@ -1369,7 +1375,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **TeleQuebecSquat**
 - **TeleQuebecVideo**
 - **TeleTask**: (**Currently broken**)
- - **Telewebion**: (**Currently broken**)
+ - **Telewebion**
 - **TennisTV**: [*tennistv*](## "netrc machine")
 - **TF1**
 - **TFO**: (**Currently broken**)
@@ -1414,10 +1420,6 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **Toypics**: Toypics video (**Currently broken**)
 - **ToypicsUser**: Toypics user profile (**Currently broken**)
 - **TravelChannel**
- - **Trovo**
- - **TrovoChannelClip**: All Clips of a trovo.live channel; "trovoclip:" prefix
- - **TrovoChannelVod**: All VODs of a trovo.live channel; "trovovod:" prefix
- - **TrovoVod**
 - **TrtCocukVideo**
 - **TrtWorld**
 - **TrueID**
@@ -1591,7 +1593,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **VTXTV**: [*vtxtv*](## "netrc machine")
 - **VTXTVLive**: [*vtxtv*](## "netrc machine")
 - **VTXTVRecordings**: [*vtxtv*](## "netrc machine")
- - **Walla**
+ - **Walla**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **WalyTV**: [*walytv*](## "netrc machine")
 - **WalyTVLive**: [*walytv*](## "netrc machine")
 - **WalyTVRecordings**: [*walytv*](## "netrc machine")
@@ -1621,7 +1623,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **WeverseMediaTab**: [*weverse*](## "netrc machine")
 - **WeverseMoment**: [*weverse*](## "netrc machine")
 - **WeVidi**
- - **whowatch**
+ - **whowatch**: (**Currently broken**)
 - **Whyp**
 - **wikimedia.org**
 - **Wimbledon**
@@ -1636,8 +1638,8 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **WorldStarHipHop**
 - **wppilot**
 - **wppilot:channels**
- - **WrestleUniversePPV**: [*wrestleuniverse*](## "netrc machine")
- - **WrestleUniverseVOD**: [*wrestleuniverse*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **wrestleuniverse:ppv**: [*wrestleuniverse*](## "netrc machine")
+ - **wrestleuniverse:vod**: [*wrestleuniverse*](## "netrc machine")
 - **WSJ**: Wall Street Journal
 - **WSJArticle**
 - **WWE**
@@ -1708,6 +1710,7 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **YoutubeYtBe**: [*youtube*](## "netrc machine") youtu.be
 - **Zaiko**
 - **ZaikoETicket**
+ - **zan**: Z-aN
 - **Zapiks**
 - **Zattoo**: [*zattoo*](## "netrc machine")
 - **ZattooLive**: [*zattoo*](## "netrc machine")
@@ -1730,5 +1733,6 @@ The only reliable way to check if a site is supported is to try it.
 - **zingmp3:user**
 - **zingmp3:week-chart**
 - **zoom**
+ - **zoom:clips**
 - **Zype**
 - **generic**: Generic downloader that works on some sites
@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ from yt_dlp.utils import (
    xpath_text,
    xpath_with_ns,
 )
-from yt_dlp.utils._utils import _UnsafeExtensionError
+from yt_dlp.utils._utils import (
+    _UnsafeExtensionError,
+    _desktop_entry_localestring,
+)
 from yt_dlp.utils.networking import (
    HTTPHeaderDict,
    escape_rfc3986,
@@ -689,8 +692,6 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('//foo.de'), '//foo.de')
        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('s3://foo.de'), None)
        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('rtmpte://foo.de'), 'rtmpte://foo.de')
-        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('mms://foo.de'), 'mms://foo.de')
-        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('rtspu://foo.de'), 'rtspu://foo.de')
        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('ftps://foo.de'), 'ftps://foo.de')
        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('ws://foo.de'), 'ws://foo.de')
        self.assertEqual(url_or_none('wss://foo.de'), 'wss://foo.de')
@@ -1950,6 +1951,27 @@ Line 1
        self.assertEqual(
            iri_to_uri('http://导航.中国/'),
            'http://xn--fet810g.xn--fiqs8s/')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            iri_to_uri('file://example.org/run.exe', allowed_schemes=('file',)),
+            'file://example.org/run.exe')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, iri_to_uri, 'file://example.org/run.exe')
+
+    def test_desktop_entry_localestring(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            _desktop_entry_localestring('A B'),
+            'A\\sB')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            _desktop_entry_localestring('A\nB'),
+            'A\\nB')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            _desktop_entry_localestring('A\tB'),
+            'A\\tB')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            _desktop_entry_localestring('A\rB'),
+            'A\\rB')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            _desktop_entry_localestring('A\\B'),
+            'A\\\\B')

    def test_clean_podcast_url(self):
        self.assertEqual(clean_podcast_url('https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/5899E/traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW7835899191.mp3'), 'https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW7835899191.mp3')
@@ -170,7 +170,12 @@ from .utils import (
    write_json_file,
    write_string,
 )
-from .utils._utils import _UnsafeExtensionError, _YDLLogger, _ProgressState
+from .utils._utils import (
+    _UnsafeExtensionError,
+    _YDLLogger,
+    _ProgressState,
+    _desktop_entry_localestring,
+)
 from .utils.networking import (
    HTTPHeaderDict,
    clean_headers,
@@ -480,7 +485,7 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                       geo_bypass_country
    external_downloader: A dictionary of protocol keys and the executable of the
                       external downloader to use for it. The allowed protocols
-                       are default|http|ftp|m3u8|dash|rtsp|rtmp|mms.
+                       are default|http|ftp|m3u8|dash|rtmp.
                       Set the value to 'native' to use the native downloader
    compat_opts:       Compatibility options. See "Differences in default behavior".
                       The following options do not work when used through the API:
@@ -1140,7 +1145,7 @@ class YoutubeDL:
            self.params['logger'].warning(message)
        elif self.params.get('no_warnings'):
            if self.params.get('verbose'):
-                self.to_stderr(f'[debug:warning] {message}', only_once=only_once)
+                self.to_stderr(f'[debug] WARNING: {message}', only_once=only_once)
        else:
            self.to_stderr(f'{self._format_err("WARNING:", self.Styles.WARNING)} {message}', only_once)

@@ -3406,10 +3411,13 @@ class YoutubeDL:

        # Write internet shortcut files
        def _write_link_file(link_type):
+            # iri_to_uri converts to ascii, percent-escapes unsafe characters & validates scheme
+            # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-6v4j-43gg-vj32
            url = try_get(info_dict['webpage_url'], iri_to_uri)
            if not url:
                self.report_warning(
-                    f'Cannot write internet shortcut file because the actual URL of "{info_dict["webpage_url"]}" is unknown')
+                    f'Cannot write internet shortcut file because the actual URL '
+                    f'of "{info_dict["webpage_url"]}" is unknown or disallowed')
                return True
            linkfn = replace_extension(
                self.prepare_filename(info_dict, 'link'), link_type,
@@ -3425,7 +3433,8 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                          newline='\r\n' if link_type == 'url' else '\n') as linkfile:
                    template_vars = {'url': url}
                    if link_type == 'desktop':
-                        template_vars['filename'] = linkfn[:-(len(link_type) + 1)]
+                        # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-6v4j-43gg-vj32
+                        template_vars['filename'] = _desktop_entry_localestring(linkfn[:-(len(link_type) + 1)])
                    linkfile.write(LINK_TEMPLATES[link_type] % template_vars)
            except OSError:
                self.report_error(f'Cannot write internet shortcut {linkfn}')
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def validate_options(opts):
            default_step = start if op or limit else 0
            return lambda n: min(float(start) + float(step or default_step) * n, float(limit or 'inf'))

-    for key, expr in opts.retry_sleep.items():
+    for key, expr in list(opts.retry_sleep.items()):
        if not expr:
            del opts.retry_sleep[key]
            continue
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ from .ism import IsmFD
 from .mhtml import MhtmlFD
 from .niconico import NiconicoLiveFD
 from .rtmp import RtmpFD
-from .rtsp import RtspFD
 from .websocket import WebSocketFragmentFD
 from .youtube_live_chat import YoutubeLiveChatFD
 from .bunnycdn import BunnyCdnFD
@@ -44,8 +43,6 @@ PROTOCOL_MAP = {
    'rtmp_ffmpeg': FFmpegFD,
    'm3u8_native': HlsFD,
    'm3u8': FFmpegFD,
-    'mms': RtspFD,
-    'rtsp': RtspFD,
    'f4m': F4mFD,
    'http_dash_segments': DashSegmentsFD,
    'http_dash_segments_generator': DashSegmentsFD,
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ class HttpieFD(ExternalFD):


 class FFmpegFD(ExternalFD):
-    SUPPORTED_PROTOCOLS = ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'm3u8', 'm3u8_native', 'rtsp', 'rtmp', 'rtmp_ffmpeg', 'mms', 'http_dash_segments')
+    SUPPORTED_PROTOCOLS = ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'm3u8', 'm3u8_native', 'rtmp', 'rtmp_ffmpeg', 'http_dash_segments')
    SUPPORTED_FEATURES = (Features.TO_STDOUT, Features.MULTIPLE_FORMATS)

    @classmethod
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):

        # We only download the first fragment during the test
        if self.params.get('test', False):
-            fragments = [fragments[0] if fragments else None]
+            fragments = fragments[:1]

        if real_downloader:
            info_dict['fragments'] = fragments
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-import os
-import subprocess
-
-from .common import FileDownloader
-from ..utils import check_executable
-
-
-class RtspFD(FileDownloader):
-    def real_download(self, filename, info_dict):
-        url = info_dict['url']
-        self.report_destination(filename)
-        tmpfilename = self.temp_name(filename)
-
-        if check_executable('mplayer', ['-h']):
-            args = [
-                'mplayer', '-really-quiet', '-vo', 'null', '-vc', 'dummy',
-                '-dumpstream', '-dumpfile', tmpfilename, url]
-        elif check_executable('mpv', ['-h']):
-            args = [
-                'mpv', '-really-quiet', '--vo=null', '--stream-dump=' + tmpfilename, url]
-        else:
-            self.report_error('MMS or RTSP download detected but neither "mplayer" nor "mpv" could be run. Please install one')
-            return False
-
-        self._debug_cmd(args)
-
-        retval = subprocess.call(args)
-        if retval == 0:
-            fsize = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
-            self.to_screen(f'\r[{args[0]}] {fsize} bytes')
-            self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
-            self._hook_progress({
-                'downloaded_bytes': fsize,
-                'total_bytes': fsize,
-                'filename': filename,
-                'status': 'finished',
-            }, info_dict)
-            return True
-        else:
-            self.to_stderr('\n')
-            self.report_error('%s exited with code %d' % (args[0], retval))
-            return False
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ from .archiveorg import (
 )
 from .arcpublishing import ArcPublishingIE
 from .ard import (
-    ARDIE,
    ARDAudiothekIE,
    ARDAudiothekPlaylistIE,
    ARDBetaMediathekIE,
@@ -359,7 +358,6 @@ from .commonmistakes import (
    UnicodeBOMIE,
 )
 from .commonprotocols import (
-    MmsIE,
    RtmpIE,
    ViewSourceIE,
 )
@@ -1720,7 +1718,10 @@ from .shahid import (
 from .sharepoint import SharePointIE
 from .shemaroome import ShemarooMeIE
 from .shiey import ShieyIE
-from .showroomlive import ShowRoomLiveIE
+from .showroomlive import (
+    ShowRoomLiveIE,
+    ShowRoomVodIE,
+)
 from .sibnet import SibnetEmbedIE
 from .simplecast import (
    SimplecastEpisodeIE,
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor


 class AdobeConnectIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://\w+\.adobeconnect\.com/(?P<id>[\w-]+)'

    def _real_extract(self, url):
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
-import json
+import itertools
+import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..networking.exceptions import HTTPError
 from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
    clean_html,
    int_or_none,
    try_get,
    unified_strdate,
    unified_timestamp,
+    urljoin,
 )


@@ -17,7 +21,7 @@ class AmericasTestKitchenIE(InfoExtractor):
        'md5': 'b861c3e365ac38ad319cfd509c30577f',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': '5b400b9ee338f922cb06450c',
-            'title': 'Japanese Suppers',
+            'title': 'Weeknight Japanese Suppers',
            'ext': 'mp4',
            'display_id': 'weeknight-japanese-suppers',
            'description': 'md5:64e606bfee910627efc4b5f050de92b3',
@@ -106,23 +110,44 @@ class AmericasTestKitchenIE(InfoExtractor):


 class AmericasTestKitchenSeasonIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?(?P<show>americastestkitchen|(?P<cooks>cooks(?:country|illustrated)))\.com(?:(?:/(?P<show2>cooks(?:country|illustrated)))?(?:/?$|(?<!ated)(?<!ated\.com)/episodes/browse/season_(?P<season>\d+)))'
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
+        https?://(?:www\.)?(?P<domain>americastestkitchen|cookscountry|cooksillustrated)\.com
+        (?:/(?P<path>cookscountry|cooksillustrated))?
+        (?:/episodes(?:/browse)?/season[-_](?P<season>\d+))?
+        /?(?:[?#]|$)'''
+    _SHOWS = {
+        'americastestkitchen': ('', 'America\'s Test Kitchen'),
+        'cookscountry': ('/cookscountry', 'Cook\'s Country'),
+        'cooksillustrated': ('/cooksillustrated', 'Cook\'s Illustrated'),
+    }
    _TESTS = [{
        # ATK Season
-        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/episodes/browse/season_1',
+        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/episodes/season-1',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'season_1',
            'title': 'Season 1',
        },
-        'playlist_count': 13,
+        'playlist_mincount': 13,
+    }, {
+        # Latest ATK Season (new URL scheme)
+        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/episodes/season-26',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'season_26',
+            'title': 'Season 26',
+        },
+        'playlist_count': 26,
    }, {
        # Cooks Country Season
-        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cookscountry/episodes/browse/season_12',
+        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cookscountry/episodes/season-12',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'season_12',
            'title': 'Season 12',
        },
-        'playlist_count': 13,
+        'playlist_mincount': 13,
+    }, {
+        # Old-style URL (redirects to the new season page)
+        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/episodes/browse/season_1',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }, {
        # America's Test Kitchen Series
        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/',
@@ -130,7 +155,7 @@ class AmericasTestKitchenSeasonIE(InfoExtractor):
            'id': 'americastestkitchen',
            'title': 'America\'s Test Kitchen',
        },
-        'playlist_count': 558,
+        'playlist_mincount': 558,
    }, {
        # Cooks Country Series
        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cookscountry',
@@ -138,7 +163,7 @@ class AmericasTestKitchenSeasonIE(InfoExtractor):
            'id': 'cookscountry',
            'title': 'Cook\'s Country',
        },
-        'playlist_count': 199,
+        'playlist_mincount': 199,
    }, {
        'url': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cookscountry/',
        'only_matching': True,
@@ -157,59 +182,46 @@ class AmericasTestKitchenSeasonIE(InfoExtractor):
    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        season_number, show1, show = self._match_valid_url(url).group('season', 'show', 'show2')
-        show_path = ('/' + show) if show else ''
-        show = show or show1
-        season_number = int_or_none(season_number)
+        domain, url_path, season = self._match_valid_url(url).group('domain', 'path', 'season')
+        show_path, title = self._SHOWS[url_path or domain]
+        season = int_or_none(season)

-        slug, title = {
-            'americastestkitchen': ('atk', 'America\'s Test Kitchen'),
-            'cookscountry': ('cco', 'Cook\'s Country'),
-            'cooksillustrated': ('cio', 'Cook\'s Illustrated'),
-        }[show]
-
-        facet_filters = [
-            'search_document_klass:episode',
-            'search_show_slug:' + slug,
-        ]
-
-        if season_number:
-            playlist_id = f'season_{season_number}'
-            playlist_title = f'Season {season_number}'
-            facet_filters.append('search_season_list:' + playlist_title)
-        else:
-            playlist_id = show
-            playlist_title = title
-
-        season_search = self._download_json(
-            f'https://y1fnzxui30-dsn.algolia.net/1/indexes/everest_search_{slug}_season_desc_production',
-            playlist_id, headers={
-                'Origin': 'https://www.americastestkitchen.com',
-                'X-Algolia-API-Key': '8d504d0099ed27c1b73708d22871d805',
-                'X-Algolia-Application-Id': 'Y1FNZXUI30',
-            }, query={
-                'facetFilters': json.dumps(facet_filters),
-                'attributesToRetrieve': f'description,search_{slug}_episode_number,search_document_date,search_url,title,search_atk_episode_season',
-                'attributesToHighlight': '',
-                'hitsPerPage': 1000,
-            })
+        if season:
+            playlist_id = f'season_{season}'
+            playlist_title = f'Season {season}'

            def entries():
-            for episode in (season_search.get('hits') or []):
-                search_url = episode.get('search_url')  # always formatted like '/episode/123-title-of-episode'
-                if not search_url:
-                    continue
-                yield {
-                    '_type': 'url',
-                    'url': f'https://www.americastestkitchen.com{show_path or ""}{search_url}',
-                    'id': try_get(episode, lambda e: e['objectID'].split('_')[-1]),
-                    'title': episode.get('title'),
-                    'description': episode.get('description'),
-                    'timestamp': unified_timestamp(episode.get('search_document_date')),
-                    'season_number': season_number,
-                    'episode_number': int_or_none(episode.get(f'search_{slug}_episode_number')),
-                    'ie_key': AmericasTestKitchenIE.ie_key(),
-                }
+                yield from self._season_entries(show_path, season)
+        else:
+            playlist_id = url_path or domain
+            playlist_title = title
+
+            def entries():
+                for season_number in itertools.count(1):
+                    try:
+                        yield from self._season_entries(show_path, season_number)
+                    except ExtractorError as e:
+                        if isinstance(e.cause, HTTPError) and e.cause.status == 404:
+                            break
+                        raise

        return self.playlist_result(
            entries(), playlist_id, playlist_title)
+
+    def _season_entries(self, show_path, season_number):
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(
+            f'https://www.americastestkitchen.com{show_path}/episodes/season-{season_number}',
+            f'season-{season_number}', f'Downloading season {season_number} webpage')
+        seen = set()
+        for episode in re.finditer(
+                r'<a [^>]*\bhref="(?P<path>/(?:cookscountry/|cooksillustrated/)?episode/(?P<id>\d+)-[^"]+)"[^>]*>\s*<h3[^>]*>(?P<title>[^<]+)</h3>',
+                webpage):
+            path = episode.group('path')
+            if path in seen:
+                continue
+            seen.add(path)
+            yield self.url_result(
+                urljoin('https://www.americastestkitchen.com', path),
+                AmericasTestKitchenIE, episode.group('id'),
+                clean_html(episode.group('title')),
+                season_number=season_number)
@@ -1,39 +1,22 @@
-import time
-
-from .common import InfoExtractor
+from .applepodcasts import AppleBaseIE
 from ..utils import (
-    ExtractorError,
-    extract_attributes,
    float_or_none,
-    jwt_decode_hs256,
-    jwt_encode,
    parse_resolution,
    qualities,
    unified_strdate,
    update_url,
    url_or_none,
-    urljoin,
 )
 from ..utils.traversal import (
-    find_element,
    require,
    traverse_obj,
 )


-class AppleConnectIE(InfoExtractor):
+class AppleConnectIE(AppleBaseIE):
    IE_NAME = 'apple:music:connect'
    IE_DESC = 'Apple Music Connect'

-    _BASE_URL = 'https://music.apple.com'
-    _QUALITIES = {
-        'provisionalUploadVideo': None,
-        'sdVideo': 480,
-        'sdVideoWithPlusAudio': 480,
-        'sd480pVideo': 480,
-        '720pHdVideo': 720,
-        '1080pHdVideo': 1080,
-    }
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://music\.apple\.com/[\w-]+/post/(?P<id>\d+)'
    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'https://music.apple.com/us/post/1018290019',
@@ -59,29 +42,16 @@ class AppleConnectIE(InfoExtractor):
        },
    }]

-    _jwt = None
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _jwt_is_expired(token):
-        return jwt_decode_hs256(token)['exp'] - time.time() < 120
-
-    def _get_token(self, webpage, video_id):
-        if self._jwt and not self._jwt_is_expired(self._jwt):
-            return self._jwt
-
-        js_url = traverse_obj(webpage, (
-            {find_element(tag='script', attr='crossorigin', value='', html=True)},
-            {extract_attributes}, 'src', {urljoin(self._BASE_URL)}, {require('JS URL')}))
-        js = self._download_webpage(
-            js_url, video_id, 'Downloading token JS', 'Unable to download token JS')
-
-        header = jwt_encode({}, '', headers={'alg': 'ES256', 'kid': 'WebPlayKid'}).split('.')[0]
-        self._jwt = self._search_regex(
-            fr'(["\'])(?P<jwt>{header}(?:\.[\w-]+){{2}})\1', js, 'JSON Web Token', group='jwt')
-        if self._jwt_is_expired(self._jwt):
-            raise ExtractorError('The fetched token is already expired')
-
-        return self._jwt
+    _BASE_URL = 'https://music.apple.com'
+    _JWT_KEY_ID = 'WebPlayKid'
+    _QUALITIES = {
+        'provisionalUploadVideo': None,
+        'sdVideo': 480,
+        'sdVideoWithPlusAudio': 480,
+        'sd480pVideo': 480,
+        '720pHdVideo': 720,
+        '1080pHdVideo': 1080,
+    }

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        video_id = self._match_id(url)
@@ -1,15 +1,55 @@
+import time
+
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
    clean_html,
    clean_podcast_url,
    int_or_none,
+    jwt_decode_hs256,
+    jwt_encode,
    parse_iso8601,
+    try_call,
+    update_url,
+    url_or_none,
+    urljoin,
 )
 from ..utils.traversal import traverse_obj


-class ApplePodcastsIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://podcasts\.apple\.com/(?:[^/]+/)?podcast(?:/[^/]+){1,2}.*?\bi=(?P<id>\d+)'
+class AppleBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    """Subclasses must set _BASE_URL and _JWT_KEY_ID"""
+
+    _jwt_cache = {}
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _jwt_is_expired(token):
+        return jwt_decode_hs256(token)['exp'] - time.time() < 120
+
+    def _get_token(self, webpage, episode_id):
+        if self._jwt_cache.get(self._BASE_URL) and not self._jwt_is_expired(self._jwt_cache[self._BASE_URL]):
+            return self._jwt
+
+        js_path = self._search_regex(
+            r'<script [^>]*\bsrc="(/assets/index~[0-9a-f]+\.js)">', webpage, 'JS asset path')
+        js_code = self._download_webpage(
+            urljoin(self._BASE_URL, js_path), episode_id,
+            'Downloading JS asset', 'Unable to download JS asset')
+
+        header = jwt_encode({}, '', headers={'typ': 'JWT', 'alg': 'ES256', 'kid': self._JWT_KEY_ID}).split('.')[0]
+        self._jwt_cache[self._BASE_URL] = self._search_regex(
+            fr'(["\'])(?P<jwt>{header}(?:\.[\w-]+){{2}})\1', js_code, 'JSON Web Token', group='jwt')
+        if self._jwt_is_expired(self._jwt_cache[self._BASE_URL]):
+            raise ExtractorError('The fetched token is already expired')
+
+        return self._jwt_cache[self._BASE_URL]
+
+
+class ApplePodcastsIE(AppleBaseIE):
+    IE_NAME = 'apple:podcasts'
+    IE_DESC = 'Apple Podcasts'
+
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://podcasts\.apple\.com/(?P<country>[^/?#]+/)?podcast(?:/[^/?#]+){1,2}/?\?(?:[^#]+&)?i=(?P<id>\d+)'
    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/urbana-podcast-724-by-david-penn/id1531349107?i=1000748574256',
        'md5': 'f8a6f92735d0cfbd5e6a7294151e28d8',
@@ -23,7 +63,7 @@ class ApplePodcastsIE(InfoExtractor):
            'timestamp': 1770400801,
            'duration': 3602,
            'series': 'Urbana Radio Show',
-            'thumbnail': 're:.+[.](png|jpe?g|webp)',
+            'thumbnail': r're:https://.+/.+\.jpg',
        },
    }, {
        'url': 'https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/207-whitney-webb-returns/id1135137367?i=1000482637777',
@@ -39,7 +79,7 @@ class ApplePodcastsIE(InfoExtractor):
            'timestamp': 1593932400,
            'duration': 5369,
            'series': 'The Tim Dillon Show',
-            'thumbnail': 're:.+[.](png|jpe?g|webp)',
+            'thumbnail': r're:https://.+/.+\.jpg',
        },
    }, {
        'url': 'https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/207-whitney-webb-returns/id1135137367?i=1000482637777',
@@ -52,15 +92,55 @@ class ApplePodcastsIE(InfoExtractor):
        'only_matching': True,
    }]

-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        episode_id = self._match_id(url)
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, episode_id)
+    _BASE_URL = 'https://podcasts.apple.com'
+    _JWT_KEY_ID = 'C4J7GBP74H'
+
+    def _extract_podcast_from_api(self, webpage, episode_id, country_code):
+        data = self._download_json(
+            f'https://amp-api.podcasts.apple.com/v1/catalog/{country_code or "us"}/podcast-episodes/{episode_id}',
+            episode_id, headers={
+                'Authorization': f'Bearer {self._get_token(webpage, episode_id)}',
+                'Origin': self._BASE_URL,
+            },
+            query={
+                # XXX: if video is available, try adding the params 'with=entitlements,hlsVideo'
+                'extend': 'fullDescription',
+                'include': 'podcast',
+                'l': 'en-US',
+            })['data'][0]
+
+        thumb_info = traverse_obj(data, ('attributes', 'artwork', {
+            'url': ('url', {url_or_none}),
+            'h': ('height', {int_or_none}),
+            'w': ('width', {int_or_none}),
+        }))
+
+        return {
+            'id': episode_id,
+            **traverse_obj(data, {
+                'title': ('attributes', 'name', {str}),
+                'description': ('attributes', 'fullDescription', {clean_html}),
+                'url': ('attributes', 'assetUrl', {clean_podcast_url}, {update_url(scheme='https')}),
+                'timestamp': ('attributes', 'releaseDateTime', {parse_iso8601}),
+                'duration': ('attributes', 'durationInMilliseconds', {int_or_none(scale=1000)}),
+                'episode': ('attributes', 'name', {str}),
+                'episode_number': ('attributes', 'episodeNumber', {int_or_none}),
+                'series': ('relationships', 'podcast', 'data', 0, 'attributes', 'name', {str}),
+            }),
+            'thumbnail': try_call(lambda: thumb_info.pop('url').format(f='jpg', **thumb_info)),
+            'vcodec': 'none',
+        }
+
+    def _extract_podcast_from_webpage(self, webpage, episode_id):
        server_data = self._search_json(
            r'<script [^>]*\bid=["\']serialized-server-data["\'][^>]*>', webpage,
-            'server data', episode_id)['data'][0]['data']
+            'server data', episode_id, default=None)
        model_data = traverse_obj(server_data, (
-            'headerButtonItems', lambda _, v: v['$kind'] == 'share' and v['modelType'] == 'EpisodeLockup',
+            'data', 0, 'data', 'headerButtonItems',
+            lambda _, v: v['$kind'] == 'share' and v['modelType'] == 'EpisodeLockup',
            'model', {dict}, any))
+        if not model_data:
+            return None

        return {
            'id': episode_id,
@@ -77,3 +157,12 @@ class ApplePodcastsIE(InfoExtractor):
            'thumbnail': self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage),
            'vcodec': 'none',
        }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        episode_id, country_code = self._match_valid_url(url).group('id', 'country')
+        # Webpage may be unavailable, see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17266
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, episode_id, expected_status=500)
+
+        return (
+            self._extract_podcast_from_webpage(webpage, episode_id)
+            or self._extract_podcast_from_api(webpage, episode_id, country_code))
@@ -11,15 +11,12 @@ from ..utils import (
    join_nonempty,
    jwt_decode_hs256,
    make_archive_id,
-    parse_duration,
    parse_iso8601,
    remove_start,
    str_or_none,
-    unified_strdate,
    update_url,
    update_url_query,
    url_or_none,
-    xpath_text,
 )
 from ..utils.traversal import traverse_obj, value

@@ -119,118 +116,6 @@ class ARDMediathekBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
        return formats


-class ARDIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?P<mainurl>https?://(?:www\.)?daserste\.de/(?:[^/?#&]+/)+(?P<id>[^/?#&]+))\.html'
-    _TESTS = [{
-        # available till 7.12.2023
-        'url': 'https://www.daserste.de/information/talk/maischberger/videos/maischberger-video-424.html',
-        'md5': '94812e6438488fb923c361a44469614b',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'maischberger-video-424',
-            'display_id': 'maischberger-video-424',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'duration': 4452.0,
-            'title': 'maischberger am 07.12.2022',
-            'upload_date': '20221207',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/morgenmagazin/videosextern/dominik-kahun-aus-der-nhl-direkt-zur-weltmeisterschaft-100.html',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://www.daserste.de/information/nachrichten-wetter/tagesthemen/videosextern/tagesthemen-17736.html',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/serie/in-aller-freundschaft-die-jungen-aerzte/videos/diversity-tag-sanam-afrashteh100.html',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }, {
-        'url': 'http://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/videos/die-story-im-ersten-mission-unter-falscher-flagge-100.html',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/serie/in-aller-freundschaft-die-jungen-aerzte/Drehpause-100.html',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/film/filmmittwoch-im-ersten/videos/making-ofwendezeit-video-100.html',
-        'only_matching': True,
-    }]
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = self._match_valid_url(url)
-        display_id = mobj.group('id')
-
-        player_url = mobj.group('mainurl') + '~playerXml.xml'
-        doc = self._download_xml(player_url, display_id)
-        video_node = doc.find('./video')
-        upload_date = unified_strdate(xpath_text(
-            video_node, './broadcastDate'))
-        thumbnail = xpath_text(video_node, './/teaserImage//variant/url')
-
-        formats = []
-        for a in video_node.findall('.//asset'):
-            file_name = xpath_text(a, './fileName', default=None)
-            if not file_name:
-                continue
-            format_type = a.attrib.get('type')
-            format_url = url_or_none(file_name)
-            if format_url:
-                ext = determine_ext(file_name)
-                if ext == 'm3u8':
-                    formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
-                        format_url, display_id, 'mp4', entry_protocol='m3u8_native',
-                        m3u8_id=format_type or 'hls', fatal=False))
-                    continue
-                elif ext == 'f4m':
-                    formats.extend(self._extract_f4m_formats(
-                        update_url_query(format_url, {'hdcore': '3.7.0'}),
-                        display_id, f4m_id=format_type or 'hds', fatal=False))
-                    continue
-            f = {
-                'format_id': format_type,
-                'width': int_or_none(xpath_text(a, './frameWidth')),
-                'height': int_or_none(xpath_text(a, './frameHeight')),
-                'vbr': int_or_none(xpath_text(a, './bitrateVideo')),
-                'abr': int_or_none(xpath_text(a, './bitrateAudio')),
-                'vcodec': xpath_text(a, './codecVideo'),
-                'tbr': int_or_none(xpath_text(a, './totalBitrate')),
-            }
-            server_prefix = xpath_text(a, './serverPrefix', default=None)
-            if server_prefix:
-                f.update({
-                    'url': server_prefix,
-                    'playpath': file_name,
-                })
-            else:
-                if not format_url:
-                    continue
-                f['url'] = format_url
-            formats.append(f)
-
-        _SUB_FORMATS = (
-            ('./dataTimedText', 'ttml'),
-            ('./dataTimedTextNoOffset', 'ttml'),
-            ('./dataTimedTextVtt', 'vtt'),
-        )
-
-        subtitles = {}
-        for subsel, subext in _SUB_FORMATS:
-            for node in video_node.findall(subsel):
-                subtitles.setdefault('de', []).append({
-                    'url': node.attrib['url'],
-                    'ext': subext,
-                })
-
-        return {
-            'id': xpath_text(video_node, './videoId', default=display_id),
-            'formats': formats,
-            'subtitles': subtitles,
-            'display_id': display_id,
-            'title': video_node.find('./title').text,
-            'duration': parse_duration(video_node.find('./duration').text),
-            'upload_date': upload_date,
-            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
-        }
-
-
 class ARDBetaMediathekIE(InfoExtractor):
    IE_NAME = 'ARDMediathek'
    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)https?://
@@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ class InfoExtractor:
        query = urllib.parse.urlparse(url).query
        url = re.sub(r'/(?:manifest|playlist|jwplayer)\.(?:m3u8|f4m|mpd|smil)', '', url)
        mobj = re.search(
-            r'(?:(?:http|rtmp|rtsp)(?P<s>s)?:)?(?P<url>//[^?]+)', url)
+            r'(?:(?:http|rtmp)(?P<s>s)?:)?(?P<url>//[^?]+)', url)
        url_base = mobj.group('url')
        http_base_url = '{}{}:{}'.format('http', mobj.group('s') or '', url_base)
        formats = []
@@ -3567,27 +3567,15 @@ class InfoExtractor:
                video_id, mpd_id='dash', fatal=False))
        if re.search(r'(?:/smil:|\.smil)', url_base):
            if 'smil' not in skip_protocols:
-                rtmp_formats = self._extract_smil_formats(
+                formats.extend(self._extract_smil_formats(
                    manifest_url('jwplayer.smil'),
-                    video_id, fatal=False)
-                for rtmp_format in rtmp_formats:
-                    rtsp_format = rtmp_format.copy()
-                    rtsp_format['url'] = '{}/{}'.format(rtmp_format['url'], rtmp_format['play_path'])
-                    del rtsp_format['play_path']
-                    del rtsp_format['ext']
-                    rtsp_format.update({
-                        'url': rtsp_format['url'].replace('rtmp://', 'rtsp://'),
-                        'format_id': rtmp_format['format_id'].replace('rtmp', 'rtsp'),
-                        'protocol': 'rtsp',
-                    })
-                    formats.extend([rtmp_format, rtsp_format])
+                    video_id, fatal=False))
        else:
-            for protocol in ('rtmp', 'rtsp'):
-                if protocol not in skip_protocols:
+            if 'rtmp' not in skip_protocols:
                formats.append({
-                        'url': f'{protocol}:{url_base}',
-                        'format_id': protocol,
-                        'protocol': protocol,
+                    'url': f'rtmp:{url_base}',
+                    'format_id': 'rtmp',
+                    'protocol': 'rtmp',
                })
        return formats

@@ -29,34 +29,6 @@ class RtmpIE(InfoExtractor):
        }


-class MmsIE(InfoExtractor):
-    IE_DESC = False  # Do not list
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?i)mms://.+'
-
-    _TEST = {
-        # Direct MMS link
-        'url': 'mms://kentro.kaist.ac.kr/200907/MilesReid(0709).wmv',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'MilesReid(0709)',
-            'ext': 'wmv',
-            'title': 'MilesReid(0709)',
-        },
-        'params': {
-            'skip_download': True,  # rtsp downloads, requiring mplayer or mpv
-        },
-    }
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        video_id = self._generic_id(url)
-        title = self._generic_title(url)
-
-        return {
-            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'url': url,
-        }
-
-
 class ViewSourceIE(InfoExtractor):
    IE_DESC = False
    _VALID_URL = r'view-source:(?P<url>.+)'
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from ..utils import (


 class DigitallySpeakingIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:s?evt\.dispeak|events\.digitallyspeaking)\.com/(?:[^/]+/)+xml/(?P<id>[^.]+)\.xml'

    _TESTS = [{
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class FilmOnChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
                continue
            if not is_live:
                formats.extend(self._extract_wowza_formats(
-                    stream_url, channel_id, skip_protocols=['dash', 'rtmp', 'rtsp']))
+                    stream_url, channel_id, skip_protocols=['dash', 'rtmp']))
                continue
            quality = stream.get('quality')
            formats.append({
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from ..utils import (


 class FolketingetIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    IE_DESC = 'Folketinget (ft.dk; Danish parliament)'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?ft\.dk/webtv/video/[^?#]*?\.(?P<id>[0-9]+)\.aspx'
    _TEST = {
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ def _id_to_pk(shortcode):


 class InstagramBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _API_BASE_URL = 'https://i.instagram.com/api/v1'
    _BASE_URL = 'https://www.instagram.com/'
    _APP_IDS = {
        'ios': '124024574287414',
@@ -75,6 +74,12 @@ class InstagramBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
    def _is_web_app(self):
        return self._app_id == self._APP_IDS['web']

+    @property
+    def _API_BASE_URL(self):
+        if not self._is_web_app:
+            return 'https://i.instagram.com/api/v1'
+        return 'https://www.instagram.com/api/v1'
+
    @property
    def _api_headers(self):
        return {
@@ -87,7 +92,8 @@ class InstagramBaseIE(InfoExtractor):

    @staticmethod
    def _is_login_redirect(url):
-        return urllib.parse.urlparse(url).path.startswith('/accounts/login')
+        path = urllib.parse.urlparse(url).path
+        return path.startswith('/accounts/login') or path == '/'

    def _get_count(self, media, kind, *keys):
        return traverse_obj(
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor


 class KaraoketvIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?karaoketv\.co\.il/[^/]+/(?P<id>\d+)'
    _TEST = {
        'url': 'http://www.karaoketv.co.il/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99/58356/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%96%D7%95%D7%9F',
@@ -37,10 +37,7 @@ class MangomoloBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
        m3u8_entry_protocol = 'm3u8' if self._IS_LIVE else 'm3u8_native'

        format_url = self._html_search_regex(
-            [
-                r'(?:file|src)\s*:\s*"(https?://[^"]+?/playlist\.m3u8)',
-                r'<a[^>]+href="(rtsp://[^"]+)"',
-            ], webpage, 'format url')
+            r'(?:file|src)\s*:\s*"(https?://[^"]+?/playlist\.m3u8)', webpage, 'format url')
        formats = self._extract_wowza_formats(
            format_url, page_id, m3u8_entry_protocol, ['smil'])

@@ -58,6 +55,18 @@ class MangomoloVideoIE(MangomoloBaseIE):
    _TYPE = 'video'
    IE_NAME = 'mangomolo:' + _TYPE
    _SLUG = r'video\?.*?\bid=(?P<id>\d+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://player.mangomolo.com/v1/video?id=29431242&user_id=168&signature=b40e58d964532fe09bf81fc08d850752&autoplay=true&fullscreen=yes&base_url=aHR0cHM6Ly9heW4ub20vdmlkZW8vMjk0MzEyNDIvJUQ4JUE3JUQ5JTg0JUQ4JUEzJUQ5JTg1JUQ5JTg2JUQ5JThBJUQ4JUE3JUQ4JUFBLSVEOCVBNyVEOSU4NCVEOCVCMyVEOCVBOCVEOCVCOS0lRDglQTclRDklODQlRDglQUQlRDklODQlRDklODIlRDglQTktOQ%3D%3D&vast=true&app_id=&zone=&filter=DENY&countries=Q0M%3D&language=ar&player_profile=',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '29431242',
+            'ext': 'flv',
+            'title': '29431242',
+        },
+        'expected_warnings': [
+            'Failed to download m3u8 information',
+            'Failed to download MPD manifest',
+        ],
+    }]

    _IS_LIVE = False

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor


 class OktoberfestTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?oktoberfest-tv\.de/[^/]+/[^/]+/video/(?P<id>[^/?#]+)'

    _TEST = {
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from ..utils import (


 class PlaytvakIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    IE_DESC = 'Playtvak.cz, iDNES.cz and Lidovky.cz'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:.+?\.)?(?:playtvak|idnes|lidovky|metro)\.cz/.*\?(?:c|idvideo)=(?P<id>[^&]+)'
    _TESTS = [{
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from ..utils import int_or_none


 class RTL2IE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    IE_NAME = 'rtl2'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?rtl2\.de/sendung/[^/]+/(?:video/(?P<vico_id>\d+)[^/]+/(?P<vivi_id>\d+)-|folge/)(?P<id>[^/?#]+)'
    _TESTS = [{
@@ -1,79 +1,134 @@
+import datetime as dt
+import json
+
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
-    ExtractorError,
+    UserNotLive,
+    clean_html,
+    extract_attributes,
    int_or_none,
-    urljoin,
+    str_or_none,
+    url_or_none,
+)
+from ..utils.traversal import (
+    find_element,
+    require,
+    traverse_obj,
 )


 class ShowRoomLiveIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?showroom-live\.com/(?!onlive|timetable|event|campaign|news|ranking|room)(?P<id>[^/?#&]+)'
-    _TEST = {
-        'url': 'https://www.showroom-live.com/48_Nana_Okada',
+    IE_NAME = 'showroom:live'
+    IE_DESC = 'SHOWROOM'
+
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?showroom-live\.com/r/(?P<id>[\w-]+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://www.showroom-live.com/r/48_Yui_Oguri',
        'only_matching': True,
-    }
+    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        broadcaster_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(
+            url, broadcaster_id, headers={'Accept-Language': 'ja'})
+        nuxt_data = self._search_nuxt_json(webpage, broadcaster_id)['data']

-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, broadcaster_id)
+        cookies = self._get_cookies(url)
+        sr_id = traverse_obj(cookies, ('sr_id', 'value', {str}, filter))
+        if not sr_id:
+            self.raise_login_required()

-        room_id = self._search_regex(
-            (r'SrGlobal\.roomId\s*=\s*(\d+)',
-             r'(?:profile|room)\?room_id\=(\d+)'), webpage, 'room_id')
+        room_profile = traverse_obj(nuxt_data, (
+            f'roomProfile-{broadcaster_id}-{sr_id}', {dict}))
+        start_timestamp = traverse_obj(room_profile, ('current_live_started_at', {int_or_none}))
+        is_live = traverse_obj(room_profile, ('is_onlive', {bool}))

-        room = self._download_json(
-            urljoin(url, f'/api/room/profile?room_id={room_id}'),
-            broadcaster_id)
+        if not is_live:
+            if start_timestamp:
+                start_time = dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(
+                    start_timestamp, dt.timezone.utc,
+                ).astimezone().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')

-        is_live = room.get('is_onlive')
-        if is_live is not True:
-            raise ExtractorError(f'{broadcaster_id} is offline', expected=True)
-
-        uploader = room.get('performer_name') or broadcaster_id
-        title = room.get('room_name') or room.get('main_name') or uploader
-
-        streaming_url_list = self._download_json(
-            urljoin(url, f'/api/live/streaming_url?room_id={room_id}'),
-            broadcaster_id)['streaming_url_list']
-
-        formats = []
-        for stream in streaming_url_list:
-            stream_url = stream.get('url')
-            if not stream_url:
-                continue
-            stream_type = stream.get('type')
-            if stream_type == 'hls':
-                m3u8_formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
-                    stream_url, broadcaster_id, ext='mp4', m3u8_id='hls',
-                    live=True)
-                for f in m3u8_formats:
-                    f['quality'] = int_or_none(stream.get('quality', 100))
-                formats.extend(m3u8_formats)
-            elif stream_type == 'rtmp':
-                stream_name = stream.get('stream_name')
-                if not stream_name:
-                    continue
-                formats.append({
-                    'url': stream_url,
-                    'play_path': stream_name,
-                    'page_url': url,
-                    'player_url': 'https://www.showroom-live.com/assets/swf/v3/ShowRoomLive.swf',
-                    'rtmp_live': True,
-                    'ext': 'flv',
-                    'format_id': 'rtmp',
-                    'format_note': stream.get('label'),
-                    'quality': int_or_none(stream.get('quality', 100)),
-                })
+                self.raise_no_formats(
+                    f'Next livestream is scheduled to start at {start_time}', expected=True)

                return {
-            'id': str(room.get('live_id') or broadcaster_id),
-            'title': title,
-            'description': room.get('description'),
-            'timestamp': int_or_none(room.get('current_live_started_at')),
-            'uploader': uploader,
-            'uploader_id': broadcaster_id,
-            'view_count': int_or_none(room.get('view_num')),
-            'formats': formats,
-            'is_live': True,
+                    'id': broadcaster_id,
+                    'live_status': 'is_upcoming',
+                    'release_timestamp': start_timestamp,
+                }
+            raise UserNotLive(video_id=broadcaster_id)
+
+        room_id = traverse_obj(room_profile, ('room_id', {str_or_none}))
+        room_name = traverse_obj(room_profile, (
+            ('room_name', 'main_name'), {clean_html}, filter, any))
+
+        streaming_url_list = self._download_json(
+            'https://www.showroom-live.com/api/live/streaming_url',
+            broadcaster_id, query={'room_id': room_id})
+        m3u8_url = traverse_obj(streaming_url_list, (
+            'streaming_url_list', lambda _, v: v['type'] == 'hls_all',
+            'url', {url_or_none}, any, {require('m3u8 URL')}))
+
+        return {
+            'title': room_name,
+            'channel': room_name,
+            'channel_id': broadcaster_id,
+            'formats': self._extract_m3u8_formats(m3u8_url, broadcaster_id, 'mp4'),
+            'is_live': is_live,
+            'release_timestamp': start_timestamp,
+            **traverse_obj(room_profile, {
+                'id': ('live_id', {str_or_none}),
+                'channel_follower_count': ('follower_num', {int_or_none}),
+                'channel_is_verified': ('is_official', {bool}),
+                'description': ('description', {clean_html}, filter),
+                'genres': ('genre_name', {clean_html}, filter, all, filter),
+                'tags': ('live_tags', ..., 'name', {clean_html}, filter, all, filter),
+                'thumbnail': ('image_square', {url_or_none}),
+                'view_count': ('view_num', {int_or_none}),
+            }),
+        }
+
+
+class ShowRoomVodIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'showroom:vod'
+
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?showroom-live\.com/episode/watch\?(?:[^#]+&)?id=(?P<id>\w+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://www.showroom-live.com/episode/watch?id=214',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '214',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'aaa',
+        },
+    }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        episode_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, episode_id)
+        episode_data = traverse_obj(webpage, (
+            {find_element(id='episode-data', html=True)},
+            {extract_attributes}, 'data-episode', {json.loads}, {dict}))
+
+        streaming_url_list = self._download_json(
+            'https://www.showroom-live.com/api/episode/streaming_url',
+            episode_id, query={'episode_id': episode_id})
+        m3u8_url = traverse_obj(streaming_url_list, (
+            'streaming_url_list', 'hls_all',
+            'hls_all', {url_or_none}, {require('m3u8 URL')}))
+
+        return {
+            'id': episode_id,
+            'formats': self._extract_m3u8_formats(m3u8_url, episode_id, 'mp4'),
+            'thumbnail': traverse_obj(streaming_url_list, ('thumbnail_url', {url_or_none})),
+            **traverse_obj(episode_data, {
+                'title': ('title', {clean_html}, filter),
+                'description': ('description', {clean_html}, filter),
+                'duration': ('video_time', {int_or_none}),
+                'timestamp': ('display_started_at', {int_or_none}),
+            }),
+            **traverse_obj(episode_data, ('series', {
+                'series': ('name', {clean_html}, filter),
+                'series_id': ('id', {str_or_none}),
+            })),
        }
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ class KnownLiabilityIE(UnsupportedInfoExtractor):
    """

    URLS = (
-        r'motherless\.com',
+        r'motherless\.\w+',
        r'suno\.com',
        r'udio\.com',
    )
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        'Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call yt-dlp '
        'with the URL of the page that embeds this video.')

-    _DEFAULT_CLIENT = 'macos'
+    _DEFAULT_CLIENT = 'macos_basic'
    _DEFAULT_AUTHED_CLIENT = 'web'
    _CLIENT_HEADERS = {
        'Accept': 'application/vnd.vimeo.*+json; version=3.4.10',
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        'android': {
            'CACHE_KEY': 'oauth-token-android',
            'CACHE_ONLY': True,
-            'VIEWER_JWT': False,
            'REQUIRES_AUTH': False,
            'AUTH': 'NzRmYTg5YjgxMWExY2JiNzUwZDg1MjhkMTYzZjQ4YWYyOGEyZGJlMTp4OGx2NFd3QnNvY1lkamI2UVZsdjdDYlNwSDUrdm50YzdNNThvWDcwN1JrenJGZC9tR1lReUNlRjRSVklZeWhYZVpRS0tBcU9YYzRoTGY2Z1dlVkJFYkdJc0dMRHpoZWFZbU0reDRqZ1dkZ1diZmdIdGUrNUM5RVBySlM0VG1qcw==',
            'USER_AGENT': 'com.vimeo.android.videoapp (OnePlus, ONEPLUS A6003, OnePlus, Android 14/34 Version 11.8.1) Kotlin VimeoNetworking/3.12.0',
@@ -71,26 +70,8 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
                'resource_key', 'badge', 'upload', 'transcode', 'is_playable', 'has_audio',
            ),
        },
-        'ios': {
-            'CACHE_KEY': 'oauth-token-ios',
-            'CACHE_ONLY': True,
-            'VIEWER_JWT': False,
-            'REQUIRES_AUTH': False,
-            'AUTH': 'MTMxNzViY2Y0NDE0YTQ5YzhjZTc0YmU0NjVjNDQxYzNkYWVjOWRlOTpHKzRvMmgzVUh4UkxjdU5FRW80cDNDbDhDWGR5dVJLNUJZZ055dHBHTTB4V1VzaG41bEx1a2hiN0NWYWNUcldSSW53dzRUdFRYZlJEZmFoTTArOTBUZkJHS3R4V2llYU04Qnl1bERSWWxUdXRidjNqR2J4SHFpVmtFSUcyRktuQw==',
-            'USER_AGENT': 'Vimeo/11.10.0 (com.vimeo; build:250424.164813.0; iOS 18.4.1) Alamofire/5.9.0 VimeoNetworking/5.0.0',
-            'VIDEOS_FIELDS': (
-                'uri', 'name', 'description', 'type', 'link', 'player_embed_url', 'duration',
-                'width', 'language', 'height', 'embed', 'created_time', 'modified_time', 'release_time',
-                'content_rating', 'content_rating_class', 'rating_mod_locked', 'license', 'config_url',
-                'embed_player_config_url', 'privacy', 'pictures', 'tags', 'stats', 'categories', 'uploader',
-                'metadata', 'user', 'files', 'download', 'app', 'play', 'status', 'resource_key', 'badge',
-                'upload', 'transcode', 'is_playable', 'has_audio',
-            ),
-        },
-        'macos': {
-            'CACHE_KEY': 'oauth-token-macos',
+        'macos_basic': {
            'CACHE_ONLY': False,
-            'VIEWER_JWT': False,
            'REQUIRES_AUTH': False,
            'AUTH': 'NDc1N2JlN2Y5ZjZmMjU3NzE3NTRkZTg1NmY2YzU2MTI0OTFlNjJiYjpwVUNDWUlBZmZqSHhQcndBYWxGMzgyYys2NkN5d1JrREJZZXdPcEdsU05tdjFlVVo2aE1lYk9GcWE3ZW9KVldlYnFlOWh5Vno5UWtpUGJ5empYZFBpYkFwV0FFTnB5VWV4ZEh3aHZnRUNEL0VySnBzTmFraDdNbS9nMXhWanhIcw==',
            'USER_AGENT': 'Vimeo/1.6.3 (com.vimeo.mac; build:251121.142637.0; macOS 13.7.8) Alamofire/5.9.0 VimeoNetworking/5.0.0',
@@ -104,7 +85,6 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        },
        'web': {
            'CACHE_ONLY': False,
-            'VIEWER_JWT': True,
            'REQUIRES_AUTH': True,
            'USER_AGENT': None,
            'VIDEOS_FIELDS': (
@@ -182,7 +162,8 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        if self._LOGIN_REQUIRED:
            self.raise_login_required()

-        if self._DEFAULT_CLIENT != 'web':
+        # Don't auto-load token from cache if the user has specified a client
+        if self._configuration_arg('client', [None], ie_key=VimeoIE)[0]:
            return

        for client_name, client_config in self._CLIENT_CONFIGS.items():
@@ -367,11 +348,14 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        }

    def _fetch_oauth_token(self, client):
-        client_config = self._CLIENT_CONFIGS[client]
-
-        if client_config['VIEWER_JWT']:
+        base_client, _, variant = client.partition('_')
+        if base_client == 'web':
            return f'jwt {self._fetch_viewer_info()["jwt"]}'

+        client_config = self._CLIENT_CONFIGS[client]
+        if variant == 'basic':
+            return f'Basic {client_config["AUTH"]}'
+
        cache_key = client_config['CACHE_KEY']

        if not self._oauth_tokens.get(cache_key):
@@ -1213,6 +1197,9 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
                        'If your IP address is located in Europe you could try using a VPN/proxy,',
                        f'or else u{self._login_hint()[1:]}',
                        delim=' '), method=None)
+                # XXX: Temporary while macos_basic is the default client
+                elif e.cause.status == 401 and self._get_requested_client() == 'macos_basic':
+                    self.raise_login_required('The Vimeo extractor only works when logged-in')
                else:
                    raise

@@ -1221,6 +1208,10 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
        else:
            info = self._parse_api_response(video, video_id, unlisted_hash)

+        # XXX: Temporary while macos_basic is the default client
+        if not info.get('formats') and self._get_requested_client() == 'macos_basic':
+            self.raise_login_required('The Vimeo extractor only works when logged-in')
+
        source_format = self._extract_original_format(
            f'https://vimeo.com/{video_id}', video_id, unlisted_hash)
        if source_format:
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from ..utils import (


 class WallaIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://vod\.walla\.co\.il/[^/]+/(?P<id>\d+)/(?P<display_id>.+)'
    _TEST = {
        'url': 'http://vod.walla.co.il/movie/2642630/one-direction-all-for-one',
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from ..utils import (


 class WhoWatchIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _WORKING = False
    IE_NAME = 'whowatch'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://whowatch\.tv/viewer/(?P<id>\d+)'

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'WEB',
-                'clientVersion': '2.20260114.08.00',
+                'clientVersion': '2.20260708.00.00',
            },
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 1,
@@ -107,11 +107,12 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        **WEB_PO_TOKEN_POLICIES,
    },
    # Safari UA returns pre-merged video+audio 144p/240p/360p/720p/1080p HLS formats
+    # Since 2026.07, HLS formats are only returned with some logged-in or "trusted" sessions
    'web_safari': {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'WEB',
-                'clientVersion': '2.20260114.08.00',
+                'clientVersion': '2.20260708.00.00',
                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.5 Safari/605.1.15,gzip(gfe)',
            },
        },
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER',
-                'clientVersion': '1.20260115.01.00',
+                'clientVersion': '2.20260708.00.00',
            },
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 56,
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'WEB_REMIX',
-                'clientVersion': '1.20260114.03.00',
+                'clientVersion': '1.20260707.12.00',
            },
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 67,
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'WEB_CREATOR',
-                'clientVersion': '1.20260114.05.00',
+                'clientVersion': '1.20260708.06.00',
            },
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 62,
@@ -193,9 +194,9 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'ANDROID',
-                'clientVersion': '21.02.35',
+                'clientVersion': '21.26.364',
                'androidSdkVersion': 30,
-                'userAgent': 'com.google.android.youtube/21.02.35 (Linux; U; Android 11) gzip',
+                'userAgent': 'com.google.android.youtube/21.26.364 (Linux; U; Android 11) gzip',
                'osName': 'Android',
                'osVersion': '11',
            },
@@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
    },
    # "Made for kids" videos aren't available with this client
    # Using a clientVersion>1.65 may return SABR streams only
+    # Since 2026.07, intermittent/selective POT enforcement has been observed for non-HLS formats
    'android_vr': {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
@@ -238,6 +240,24 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 28,
        'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False,
+        'GVS_PO_TOKEN_POLICY': {
+            StreamingProtocol.HTTPS: GvsPoTokenPolicy(
+                required=True,
+                recommended=True,
+                not_required_with_player_token=True,
+            ),
+            StreamingProtocol.DASH: GvsPoTokenPolicy(
+                required=True,
+                recommended=True,
+                not_required_with_player_token=True,
+            ),
+            StreamingProtocol.HLS: GvsPoTokenPolicy(
+                required=False,
+                recommended=True,
+                not_required_with_player_token=True,
+            ),
+        },
+        'PLAYER_PO_TOKEN_POLICY': PlayerPoTokenPolicy(required=False, recommended=True),
    },
    # iOS clients have HLS live streams. Setting device model to get 60fps formats.
    # See: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/680#issuecomment-1002724558
@@ -245,10 +265,10 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'IOS',
-                'clientVersion': '21.02.3',
+                'clientVersion': '21.26.4',
                'deviceMake': 'Apple',
                'deviceModel': 'iPhone16,2',
-                'userAgent': 'com.google.ios.youtube/21.02.3 (iPhone16,2; U; CPU iOS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X;)',
+                'userAgent': 'com.google.ios.youtube/21.26.4 (iPhone16,2; U; CPU iOS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X;)',
                'osName': 'iPhone',
                'osVersion': '18.3.2.22D82',
            },
@@ -270,13 +290,29 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'PLAYER_PO_TOKEN_POLICY': PlayerPoTokenPolicy(required=False, recommended=True),
        'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False,
    },
+    # "Made for kids" videos aren't available with this client
+    'visionos': {
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
+            'client': {
+                'clientName': 'VISIONOS',
+                'clientVersion': '1.02',
+                'deviceMake': 'Apple',
+                'deviceModel': 'RealityDevice17,1',
+                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 15_7_3) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.0 Safari/605.1.15',
+                'osName': 'visionOS',
+                'osVersion': '26.5.23O471',
+            },
+        },
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 101,
+        'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False,
+    },
    # mweb has 'ultralow' formats
    # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/557
    'mweb': {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'MWEB',
-                'clientVersion': '2.20260115.01.00',
+                'clientVersion': '2.20260708.05.00',
                # mweb previously did not require PO Token with this UA
                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 16_7_10 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1,gzip(gfe)',
            },
@@ -307,7 +343,7 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'TVHTML5',
-                'clientVersion': '7.20260114.12.00',
+                'clientVersion': '7.20260707.07.00',
                # See: https://github.com/youtube/cobalt/blob/main/cobalt/browser/user_agent/user_agent_platform_info.cc#L506
                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/25.lts.30.1034943-gold (unlike Gecko), Unknown_TV_Unknown_0/Unknown (Unknown, Unknown)',
            },
@@ -319,12 +355,11 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'TVHTML5',
-                'clientVersion': '5.20260114',
+                'clientVersion': '5.20260707',
                'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/Version',
            },
        },
        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 7,
-        'REQUIRE_AUTH': True,
        'SUPPORTS_COOKIES': True,
    },
    'tv_simply': {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from .jsc._director import initialize_jsc_director
 from .jsc.provider import JsChallengeRequest, JsChallengeType, NChallengeInput, SigChallengeInput
 from .pot._director import initialize_pot_director
 from .pot.provider import PoTokenContext, PoTokenRequest
-from ...networking.exceptions import HTTPError
+from ...networking import HEADRequest
 from ...utils import (
    NO_DEFAULT,
    ExtractorError,
@@ -140,13 +140,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
    _RETURN_TYPE = 'video'  # XXX: How to handle multifeed?

    _SUBTITLE_FORMATS = ('json3', 'srv1', 'srv2', 'srv3', 'ttml', 'srt', 'vtt')
-    _DEFAULT_CLIENTS = ('android_vr', 'web_safari')
-    _DEFAULT_JSLESS_CLIENTS = ('android_vr',)
-    _DEFAULT_AUTHED_CLIENTS = ('tv_downgraded', 'web_safari')
+    _DEFAULT_CLIENTS = ('visionos', 'android_vr', 'web')
+    _DEFAULT_JSLESS_CLIENTS = ('visionos', 'android_vr')
+    _DEFAULT_AUTHED_CLIENTS = ('tv_downgraded', 'web')
    # Premium does not require POT (except for subtitles)
-    _DEFAULT_PREMIUM_CLIENTS = ('tv_downgraded', 'web_creator')
+    _DEFAULT_PREMIUM_CLIENTS = ('tv_downgraded', 'web_creator', 'web')
    _WEBPAGE_CLIENTS = ('web', 'web_safari')
-    _DEFAULT_WEBPAGE_CLIENT = 'web_safari'
+    _DEFAULT_WEBPAGE_CLIENT = 'web'

    _GEO_BYPASS = False

@@ -1600,13 +1600,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'brhfDfLdDZ8',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'This is the WORST Movie Science We\'ve Ever Seen',
+            'title': 'Scientists React to Terrible Movie Science | Moonfall (2021)',
            'description': 'md5:8afd0a3cd69ec63438fc573580436f92',
            'media_type': 'video',
-            'uploader': 'Open Sauce',
-            'uploader_id': '@opensaucelive',
-            'uploader_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/@opensaucelive',
-            'channel': 'Open Sauce',
+            'uploader': 'Sauce +',
+            'uploader_id': '@sauceplusofficial',
+            'uploader_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/@sauceplusofficial',
+            'channel': 'Sauce +',
            'channel_id': 'UC2EiGVmCeD79l_vZ204DUSw',
            'channel_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2EiGVmCeD79l_vZ204DUSw',
            'comment_count': int,
@@ -1614,15 +1614,17 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            'like_count': int,
            'age_limit': 0,
            'duration': 1664,
-            'thumbnail': 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/brhfDfLdDZ8/hqdefault.jpg',
+            'thumbnail': 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/brhfDfLdDZ8/sddefault.jpg',
            'categories': ['Entertainment'],
            'tags': ['Moonfall', 'Bad Science', 'Open Sauce', 'Sauce+', 'The Backyard Scientist', 'William Osman', 'Allen Pan'],
-            'creators': ['Open Sauce', 'William Osman 2'],
+            'creators': ['Sauce +', 'William Osman 2'],
            'timestamp': 1759452918,
            'upload_date': '20251003',
            'playable_in_embed': True,
            'availability': 'public',
            'live_status': 'not_live',
+            'channel_follower_count': int,
+            'heatmap': 'count:100',
        },
        'params': {'skip_download': True},
    }, {
@@ -1656,6 +1658,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            'playable_in_embed': True,
            'availability': 'public',
            'live_status': 'not_live',
+            'channel_follower_count': int,
        },
        'params': {'skip_download': True},
    }, {
@@ -1940,6 +1943,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        lock = threading.Lock()
        start_time = time.time()
        formats = [f for f in formats if f.get('is_from_start')]
+        adaptive_last_seq_cache = {}

        def refetch_manifest(itag, client_name, delay):
            nonlocal formats, start_time, is_live
@@ -1956,9 +1960,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            is_live = live_status == 'is_live'
            start_time = time.time()

-        def mpd_feed(itag, client_name, delay):
+        def url_feed(itag, client_name, delay):
            """
-            @returns (manifest_url, manifest_stream_number, is_live) or None
+            @returns (base_url, is_live) or None
            """
            for retry in self.RetryManager(fatal=False):
                with lock:
@@ -1969,33 +1973,39 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                    if not is_live:
                        retry.error = f'{video_id}: Video is no longer live'
                    else:
-                        retry.error = f'Cannot find refreshed manifest for format {itag}{bug_reports_message()}'
+                        retry.error = f'Cannot find refreshed url for format {itag}{bug_reports_message()}'
                    continue

-                # Formats from ended premieres will be missing a manifest_url
-                # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/8543
-                if not f.get('manifest_url'):
+                if not f.get('url'):
                    break

-                return f['manifest_url'], f['manifest_stream_number'], is_live
+                return f['url'], is_live
            return None

        for f in formats:
            f['is_live'] = is_live
-            gen = functools.partial(self._live_dash_fragments, video_id, f['_itag'], f['_client'],
-                                    live_start_time, mpd_feed, not is_live and f.copy())
+            gen = functools.partial(
+                self._live_adaptive_fragments,
+                video_id,
+                f['_itag'],
+                f['_client'],
+                live_start_time,
+                url_feed if is_live else None,
+                f.get('url') if not is_live else None,
+                f.get('target_duration'),
+                adaptive_last_seq_cache,
+            )
            if is_live:
                f['fragments'] = gen
                f['protocol'] = 'http_dash_segments_generator'
            else:
                f['fragments'] = LazyList(gen({}))
+                f['protocol'] = 'http_dash_segments'
                del f['is_from_start']

-    def _live_dash_fragments(self, video_id, itag, client_name, live_start_time, mpd_feed, manifestless_orig_fmt, ctx):
+    def _live_adaptive_fragments(self, video_id, itag, client_name, live_start_time, url_feed, base_url, fragment_duration, last_seq_cache, ctx):
        FETCH_SPAN, MAX_DURATION = 5, 432000

-        mpd_url, stream_number, is_live = None, None, True
-
        begin_index = 0
        download_start_time = ctx.get('start') or time.time()

@@ -2006,98 +2016,77 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                'YouTube does not have data before that. If you think this is wrong,'), only_once=True)
            lack_early_segments = True

-        known_idx, no_fragment_score, last_segment_url = begin_index, 0, None
-        fragments, fragment_base_url = None, None
-
-        def _extract_sequence_from_mpd(refresh_sequence, immediate):
-            nonlocal mpd_url, stream_number, is_live, no_fragment_score, fragments, fragment_base_url
-            # Obtain from MPD's maximum seq value
-            old_mpd_url = mpd_url
-            last_error = ctx.pop('last_error', None)
-            expire_fast = immediate or (last_error and isinstance(last_error, HTTPError) and last_error.status == 403)
-            mpd_url, stream_number, is_live = (mpd_feed(itag, client_name, 5 if expire_fast else 18000)
-                                               or (mpd_url, stream_number, False))
-            if not refresh_sequence:
-                if expire_fast and not is_live:
-                    return False, last_seq
-                elif old_mpd_url == mpd_url:
-                    return True, last_seq
-            if manifestless_orig_fmt:
-                fmt_info = manifestless_orig_fmt
-            else:
-                try:
-                    fmts, _ = self._extract_mpd_formats_and_subtitles(
-                        mpd_url, None, note=False, errnote=False, fatal=False)
-                except ExtractorError:
-                    fmts = None
-                if not fmts:
-                    no_fragment_score += 2
-                    return False, last_seq
-                fmt_info = next(x for x in fmts if x['manifest_stream_number'] == stream_number)
-            fragments = fmt_info['fragments']
-            fragment_base_url = fmt_info['fragment_base_url']
-            assert fragment_base_url
-
-            _last_seq = int(re.search(r'(?:/|^)sq/(\d+)', fragments[-1]['path']).group(1))
-            return True, _last_seq
+        known_idx, no_fragment_score = begin_index, 0

        self.write_debug(f'[{video_id}] Generating fragments for format {itag}')
-        while is_live:
+        should_iterate = True
+        while should_iterate:
            fetch_time = time.time()
            if no_fragment_score > 30:
                return
-            if last_segment_url:
-                # Obtain from "X-Head-Seqnum" header value from each segment
+
+            if url_feed and (feed_results := url_feed(itag, client_name, 5 if no_fragment_score > 15 else 18000)):
+                base_url, should_iterate = feed_results
+            else:
+                should_iterate = False
+            if not base_url:
+                no_fragment_score += 2
+                continue
+
+            # Obtain from "X-Head-Seqnum" header value. The bare base URL
+            # may return an empty response body, but the headers are still usable.
+            cache_key = should_iterate, int(time.time() // FETCH_SPAN)
+            if cache_key in last_seq_cache:
+                last_seq = last_seq_cache[cache_key]
+            else:
                try:
                    urlh = self._request_webpage(
-                        last_segment_url, None, note=False, errnote=False, fatal=False)
-                except ExtractorError:
+                        HEADRequest(base_url), None,
+                        note=False, errnote='Fragment request failed')
+                except ExtractorError as e:
+                    self.write_debug(e.msg)
                    urlh = None
                last_seq = try_get(urlh, lambda x: int_or_none(x.headers['X-Head-Seqnum']))
+                if urlh:
+                    urlh.close()
+                if last_seq is not None:
+                    last_seq_cache.clear()
+                    last_seq_cache[cache_key] = last_seq
            if last_seq is None:
                no_fragment_score += 2
-                    last_segment_url = None
-                    continue
-            else:
-                should_continue, last_seq = _extract_sequence_from_mpd(True, no_fragment_score > 15)
-                no_fragment_score += 2
-                if not should_continue:
                continue

            if known_idx > last_seq:
-                last_segment_url = None
+                no_fragment_score += 5
+                if should_iterate:
+                    time.sleep(max(0, FETCH_SPAN + fetch_time - time.time()))
                continue

            last_seq += 1

+            if not url_feed:
+                last_seq -= 2
+
            if begin_index < 0 and known_idx < 0:
                # skip from the start when it's negative value
                known_idx = last_seq + begin_index
            if lack_early_segments:
-                known_idx = max(known_idx, last_seq - int(MAX_DURATION // fragments[-1]['duration']))
-            try:
+                known_idx = max(known_idx, last_seq - int(MAX_DURATION // fragment_duration))
+
            for idx in range(known_idx, last_seq):
-                    # do not update sequence here or you'll get skipped some part of it
-                    should_continue, _ = _extract_sequence_from_mpd(False, False)
-                    if not should_continue:
-                        known_idx = idx - 1
-                        raise ExtractorError('breaking out of outer loop')
-                    last_segment_url = urljoin(fragment_base_url, f'sq/{idx}')
                yield {
-                        'url': last_segment_url,
+                    'url': update_url_query(base_url, {'sq': str(idx)}),
                    'fragment_count': last_seq,
                }
+
            if known_idx == last_seq:
                no_fragment_score += 5
            else:
                no_fragment_score = 0
            known_idx = last_seq
-            except ExtractorError:
-                continue

-            if manifestless_orig_fmt:
-                # Stop at the first iteration if running for post-live manifestless;
-                # fragment count no longer increase since it starts
+            if not url_feed:
+                # Post-live: stop after first iteration
                break

            time.sleep(max(0, FETCH_SPAN + fetch_time - time.time()))
@@ -2918,6 +2907,10 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
    def _is_unplayable(player_response):
        return traverse_obj(player_response, ('playabilityStatus', 'status')) == 'UNPLAYABLE'

+    @staticmethod
+    def _is_error_response(player_response):
+        return traverse_obj(player_response, ('playabilityStatus', 'status')) == 'ERROR'
+
    def _extract_player_response(self, client, video_id, webpage_ytcfg, player_ytcfg, player_url, initial_pr, visitor_data, data_sync_id, po_token):
        headers = self.generate_api_headers(
            ytcfg=player_ytcfg,
@@ -3150,13 +3143,14 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                    prs.append(pr)

            if (
-                # Is this a "made for kids" video that can't be downloaded with android_vr?
-                client == 'android_vr' and self._is_unplayable(pr)
+                # Is this a "made for kids" video that can't be downloaded with android_vr/visionos?
+                client in {'android_vr', 'visionos'}
+                and (self._is_unplayable(pr) or self._is_error_response(pr))
                and webpage and 'made for kids' in webpage
                # ...and is a JS runtime is available?
                and any(p.is_available() for p in self._jsc_director.providers.values())
            ):
-                append_client('web_embedded')
+                append_client('tv_downgraded')

            # web_embedded can work around age-gate and age-verification for some embeddable videos
            if self._is_agegated(pr) and variant != 'web_embedded':
@@ -3194,10 +3188,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            raise ExtractorError('Failed to extract any player response')
        return prs, player_url

-    def _needs_live_processing(self, live_status, duration):
-        if ((live_status == 'is_live' and self.get_param('live_from_start'))
-                or (live_status == 'post_live' and (duration or 0) > 2 * 3600)):
-            return live_status
+    def _needs_live_processing(self, live_status):
+        return live_status == 'post_live' or (
+            live_status == 'is_live' and self.get_param('live_from_start'))

    def _report_pot_format_skipped(self, video_id, client_name, proto):
        msg = (
@@ -3497,8 +3490,14 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                https_fmts = []

                for fmt_stream in streaming_formats:
-                    # Live adaptive https formats are not supported: skip unless extractor-arg given
-                    if fmt_stream.get('targetDurationSec') and skip_bad_formats:
+                    if (
+                        # It's a live adaptive format
+                        fmt_stream.get('targetDurationSec')
+                        # The user didn't pass the formats=incomplete extractor-arg
+                        and skip_bad_formats
+                        # This is not a --live-from-start or post-live stream
+                        and not self._needs_live_processing(live_status)
+                    ):
                        continue

                    # FORMAT_STREAM_TYPE_OTF(otf=1) requires downloading the init fragment
@@ -3593,6 +3592,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                    if live_status not in ('is_live', 'post_live'):
                        fmt['available_at'] = available_at

+                    if fmt_stream.get('targetDurationSec') and self._needs_live_processing(live_status):
+                        fmt['is_from_start'] = True
+                        fmt['target_duration'] = fmt_stream['targetDurationSec']
+                        fmt['_itag'] = stream_id[0]
+                        fmt['_client'] = client_name
+
                    https_fmts.append(fmt)

                for fmt in https_fmts:
@@ -3609,14 +3614,16 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):

            yield from process_https_formats()

-            needs_live_processing = self._needs_live_processing(live_status, duration)
+            needs_live_processing = self._needs_live_processing(live_status)

            skip_manifests = set(self._configuration_arg('skip'))
-            if (needs_live_processing == 'is_live'  # These will be filtered out by YoutubeDL anyway
-                    or (needs_live_processing and skip_bad_formats)):
+            if needs_live_processing and skip_bad_formats:
                skip_manifests.add('hls')

-            if skip_bad_formats and live_status == 'is_live' and needs_live_processing != 'is_live':
+            if skip_bad_formats and (
+                live_status == 'is_live'
+                or (live_status == 'post_live' and (duration or 0) > 2 * 3600)
+            ):
                skip_manifests.add('dash')

            def process_manifest_format(f, proto, client_name, itag, missing_pot):
@@ -3754,10 +3761,6 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                        if process_manifest_format(f, 'dash', client_name, format_id, require_po_token and not po_token):
                            f['filesize'] = int_or_none(self._search_regex(
                                r'/clen/(\d+)', f.get('fragment_base_url') or f['url'], 'file size', default=None))
-                            if needs_live_processing:
-                                f['is_from_start'] = True
-                                f['_itag'] = format_id
-                                f['_client'] = client_name
                            yield f
        yield subtitles

@@ -4129,7 +4132,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        if not duration and live_end_time and live_start_time:
            duration = live_end_time - live_start_time

-        needs_live_processing = self._needs_live_processing(live_status, duration)
+        needs_live_processing = self._needs_live_processing(live_status)

        def adjust_incomplete_format(fmt, note_suffix='(Last 2 hours)', pref_adjustment=-10):
            fmt['preference'] = (fmt.get('preference') or -1) + pref_adjustment
@@ -4138,26 +4141,19 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        # Adjust preference and format note for incomplete live/post-live formats
        if live_status in ('is_live', 'post_live'):
            for fmt in formats:
-                protocol = fmt.get('protocol')
-                # Currently, protocol isn't set for adaptive https formats, but this could change
-                is_adaptive = protocol in (None, 'http', 'https')
-                if live_status == 'post_live' and is_adaptive:
-                    # Post-live adaptive formats cause HttpFD to raise "Did not get any data blocks"
-                    # These formats are *only* useful to external applications, so we can hide them
-                    # Set their preference <= -1000 so that FormatSorter flags them as 'hidden'
-                    adjust_incomplete_format(fmt, note_suffix='(ended)', pref_adjustment=-5000)
-                # Is it live with --live-from-start? Or is it post-live and its duration is >2hrs?
-                elif needs_live_processing:
+                # Is it live with --live-from-start or post-live?
+                if needs_live_processing:
                    if not fmt.get('is_from_start'):
-                        # Post-live m3u8 formats for >2hr streams
+                        # Post-live DASH and m3u8 manifests only have the last ~2 hours
                        adjust_incomplete_format(fmt)
                elif live_status == 'is_live':
-                    if protocol == 'http_dash_segments':
-                        # Live DASH formats without --live-from-start
-                        adjust_incomplete_format(fmt)
-                    elif is_adaptive:
-                        # Incomplete live adaptive https formats
+                    protocol = fmt.get('protocol')
+                    # Currently, protocol isn't set for incomplete (non-generated) live adaptive formats
+                    if protocol in (None, 'http', 'https'):
                        adjust_incomplete_format(fmt, note_suffix='(incomplete)', pref_adjustment=-20)
+                    # Live DASH formats (no longer properly supported)
+                    elif protocol == 'http_dash_segments':
+                        adjust_incomplete_format(fmt)

        if needs_live_processing:
            self._prepare_live_from_start_formats(
@@ -4475,13 +4471,16 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        vsir = get_first(contents, 'videoSecondaryInfoRenderer')
        if vsir:
            vor = traverse_obj(vsir, ('owner', 'videoOwnerRenderer'))
-            collaborators = traverse_obj(vor, (
+            collab_view_models = traverse_obj(vor, (
                'attributedTitle', 'commandRuns', ..., 'onTap', 'innertubeCommand', 'showDialogCommand',
                'panelLoadingStrategy', 'inlineContent', 'dialogViewModel', 'customContent', 'listViewModel',
-                'listItems', ..., 'listItemViewModel', 'title', 'content', {str}))
+                'listItems', ..., 'listItemViewModel', {dict}))
+            collaborators = traverse_obj(collab_view_models, (..., 'title', 'content', {str}))
            info.update({
                'channel': self._get_text(vor, 'title') or (collaborators[0] if collaborators else None),
-                'channel_follower_count': self._get_count(vor, 'subscriberCountText'),
+                'channel_follower_count': (
+                    self._get_count(vor, 'subscriberCountText')
+                    or traverse_obj(collab_view_models, (0, 'rendererContext', 'accessibilityContext', 'label', {parse_count}))),
                'creators': collaborators if collaborators else None,
            })

@@ -1139,12 +1139,12 @@ def create_parser():
        dest='external_downloader', metavar='[PROTO:]NAME', default={}, type='str',
        action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
        callback_kwargs={
-            'allowed_keys': 'http|ftp|m3u8|dash|rtsp|rtmp|mms',
+            'allowed_keys': 'http|ftp|m3u8|dash|rtmp',
            'default_key': 'default',
            'process': str.strip,
        }, help=(
            'Name or path of the external downloader to use (optionally) prefixed by '
-            'the protocols (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to use it for. '
+            'the protocols (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rtmp) to use it for. '
            f'Currently supports native, {", ".join(sorted(list_external_downloaders()))}. '
            'You can use this option multiple times to set different downloaders for different protocols. '
            'E.g. --downloader aria2c --downloader "dash,m3u8:native" will use '
@@ -181,8 +181,7 @@ def _get_system_deprecation():
        # Do not inappropriately warn for unofficial/third-party binaries
        if not ORIGIN.startswith('yt-dlp/'):
            return None
-        platform_name = platform.platform()
-        if any(platform_name.startswith(f'Windows-{name}') for name in ('8', '2012Server')):
+        if platform.platform().startswith(('Windows-8', 'Windows-2012Server')):
            return (
                'Support for Windows 8.x and Windows Server 2012 has been deprecated. '
                'See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16917  for details.\n'
@@ -2076,7 +2076,7 @@ def url_or_none(url):
    if not url or not isinstance(url, str):
        return None
    url = url.strip()
-    return url if re.match(r'(?:(?:https?|rt(?:m(?:pt?[es]?|fp)|sp[su]?)|mms|ftps?|wss?):)?//', url) else None
+    return url if re.match(r'(?:(?:https?|rtm(?:pt?[es]?|fp)|ftps?|wss?):)?//', url) else None


 def strftime_or_none(timestamp, date_format='%Y%m%d', default=None):
@@ -3195,10 +3195,6 @@ def determine_protocol(info_dict):
    url = sanitize_url(info_dict['url'])
    if url.startswith('rtmp'):
        return 'rtmp'
-    elif url.startswith('mms'):
-        return 'mms'
-    elif url.startswith('rtsp'):
-        return 'rtsp'

    ext = determine_ext(url)
    if ext == 'm3u8':
@@ -4635,8 +4631,21 @@ LINK_TEMPLATES = {
    'webloc': DOT_WEBLOC_LINK_TEMPLATE,
 }

+# Ref: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry/latest/value-types.html
+_DESKTOP_ENTRY_TRANS = str.maketrans({
+    ' ': R'\s',
+    '\n': R'\n',
+    '\t': R'\t',
+    '\r': R'\r',
+    '\\': R'\\',
+})

-def iri_to_uri(iri):
+
+def _desktop_entry_localestring(s):
+    return s.translate(_DESKTOP_ENTRY_TRANS)
+
+
+def iri_to_uri(iri, *, allowed_schemes=('http', 'https')):
    """
    Converts an IRI (Internationalized Resource Identifier, allowing Unicode characters) to a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier, ASCII-only).

@@ -4645,6 +4654,9 @@ def iri_to_uri(iri):

    iri_parts = urllib.parse.urlparse(iri)

+    if iri_parts.scheme not in allowed_schemes:
+        raise ValueError(f'"{iri_parts.scheme}" is not in allowed_schemes: {", ".join(allowed_schemes)}')
+
    if '[' in iri_parts.netloc:
        raise ValueError('IPv6 URIs are not, yet, supported.')
        # Querying `.netloc`, when there's only one bracket, also raises a ValueError.
@@ -5373,7 +5385,7 @@ class FormatSorter:
        'hdr': {'type': 'ordered', 'regex': True, 'field': 'dynamic_range',
                'order': ['dv', '(hdr)?12', r'(hdr)?10\+', '(hdr)?10', 'hlg', '', 'sdr', None]},
        'proto': {'type': 'ordered', 'regex': True, 'field': 'protocol',
-                  'order': ['(ht|f)tps', '(ht|f)tp$', 'm3u8.*', '.*dash', 'websocket_frag', 'rtmpe?', '', 'mms|rtsp', 'ws|websocket', 'f4']},
+                  'order': ['(ht|f)tps', '(ht|f)tp$', 'm3u8.*', '.*dash', 'websocket_frag', 'rtmpe?', '', 'ws|websocket', 'f4']},
        'vext': {'type': 'ordered', 'field': 'video_ext',
                 'order': ('mp4', 'mov', 'webm', 'flv', '', 'none'),
                 'order_free': ('webm', 'mp4', 'mov', 'flv', '', 'none')},
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from .traversal import traverse_obj
 def random_user_agent():
    USER_AGENT_TMPL = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/{}.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
    # Target versions released within the last ~6 months
-    CHROME_MAJOR_VERSION_RANGE = (144, 150)
+    CHROME_MAJOR_VERSION_RANGE = (145, 151)
    return USER_AGENT_TMPL.format(random.randint(*CHROME_MAJOR_VERSION_RANGE))


@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Autogenerated by devscripts/update-version.py

-__version__ = '2026.06.09'
+__version__ = '2026.07.04'

-RELEASE_GIT_HEAD = '821bef0f00178916d60dbc86bc0bcb8cc3bae8d5'
+RELEASE_GIT_HEAD = '997fa140840a08df3938b40da470c78049fef1f6'

 VARIANT = None

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ CHANNEL = 'stable'

 ORIGIN = 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp'

-_pkg_version = '2026.06.09'
+_pkg_version = '2026.07.04'
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
bashonlyandGitHub	5d6b8c8cd1	[ie/youtube] Extract `channel_follower_count` for collaborators (#17363 ) To clarify the somewhat misleading subject line: this patch only extracts the 1st collaborator's channel_follower_count for videos with multiple collaborators. Closes #17360 Authored by: bashonly	2026-08-04 22:58:34 +00:00
dlp-botandGitHub	15941bd48f	[utils] `random_user_agent`: Bump version range 144-150 => 145-151 (#17344 ) Authored by: dlp-bot	2026-08-04 14:28:47 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	d798b9b8fb	[ci] Fix broken Windows PyPy tests (#17347 ) Workaround for https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/1348 Authored by: bashonly	2026-08-04 05:01:09 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	fdcc954df4	[ie/vimeo] Add `macos_basic` client (#17292 ) Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-23 16:54:48 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	07591f601e	[ie/vimeo] Remove `ios` and `macos` clients (#17290 ) Closes #17271, Closes #17286 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-23 10:59:57 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	aaf7405ba3	[ie/apple] Rework extractors (#17277 ) * Add API fallback for ApplePodcastsIE * Fix AppleConnectIE token extraction * Refactor and add AppleBaseIE Closes #17266 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-21 23:09:21 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	1f1101d0dc	[ie/instagram] Fix logged-in extraction (#17278 ) Closes #17275 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-21 23:02:13 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	a8be438aac	[ie/vimeo] Client maintenance (#17272 ) Closes #17271 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-20 23:41:12 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	69ea200067	[ie/youtube] Player client maintenance (#17261 ) * Add visionos to logged-out default clients * Add POT policy for android_vr * Use tv_downgraded for VR fallback client * Move back to web from web_safari in defaults Closes #14997 Closes #15583 Closes #15756 Closes #15798 Closes #16064 Closes #17143 Closes #17232 Closes #17252 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-20 23:36:39 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	93ceb95cdf	[ie/youtube] Fix live adaptive fragments generation (#17262 ) Fix bug in `8c1f07d813` Closes #17208 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-20 23:24:23 +00:00
doe1080andGitHub	aefce1eea4	[fd/hls] Fix crash on empty fragment lists in tests (#17218 ) Authored by: doe1080	2026-07-14 14:14:20 +00:00
Brian MarksandGitHub	d9813a3da6	[ie/americastestkitchen] Fix season/series extraction (#17151 ) Authored by: bm1549	2026-07-12 19:39:51 +00:00
doe1080andGitHub	6a188aed91	[ie/showroom] Rework extractors (#17142 ) Closes #2072, Closes #7297 Authored by: doe1080	2026-07-12 00:48:16 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	59d9ae606a	[ie/youtube] Update player client versions (#17185 ) Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-09 23:11:00 +00:00
bashonlyandGitHub	1328586f72	[ie/youtube] Add `visionos` player client (#17184 ) Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-09 21:42:39 +00:00
bashonly GitHub sepro	b3854cc41b	[misc] Fix third party license information (#17150 ) Authored by: bashonly, seproDev Co-authored-by: sepro <sepro@sepr0.com>	2026-07-06 21:46:30 +00:00
InvalidUsernameExceptionandGitHub	981190089f	[ie/ard] Remove dead extractor (#17158 ) Closes #2630 Authored by: InvalidUsernameException	2026-07-06 21:44:28 +00:00
github-actions[bot]	fdec00e0bf	Release 2026.07.04 Created by: bashonly :ci skip all	2026-07-04 22:23:07 +00:00
sepro GitHub bashonly	997fa14084	[cleanup] Misc (#17031 ) Closes #17104 Authored by: seproDev, bashonly Co-authored-by: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-07-04 22:14:51 +00:00
bashonly	b6590aaa1e	Validate and escape values in `--write-link` output See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-6v4j-43gg-vj32 Authored by: bashonly	2026-07-04 17:04:14 -05:00
seproandGitHub	bed3d58c5c	[cleanup] Remove RTSP and MMS support (#17030 ) Authored by: seproDev	2026-07-04 21:59:16 +00:00
dreammuandGitHub	8c1f07d813	[ie/youtube] Support live adaptive formats (#16771 ) * Add proper support for downloading live adaptive formats * Migrate --live-from-start support from DASH to adaptive * Migrate post-live stream support from DASH to adaptive Closes #15274, Closes #15367 Authored by: dreammu	2026-07-04 21:43:19 +00:00