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@shibaFoss shibaFoss released this 27 Jan 19:47

🚑 Hotfix Release: YouTube Format & File Size Visibility Restored

This is an urgent patch update addressing a critical regression in the YouTube extractor that caused video/audio formats and file sizes to not appear before download.

🔥 What was broken

Recent upstream changes on YouTube’s side caused the parser to fail during stream extraction.
As a result:

  1. Video and audio format lists appeared empty or incomplete
  2. File sizes were missing or shown as unknown
  3. Users could not make informed choices before downloading
  4. Downloads themselves were not always broken—but the preview and selection stage was effectively unusable.

🛠 What’s fixed in this release

  1. Updated YouTube parsing logic to handle the new response structure
  2. Restored reliable extraction of:
  3. Available video/audio formats
  4. Accurate file size metadata
  5. Improved resilience against partial or delayed page reload requirements
  6. Reduced false ContentNotAvailable / reload-related extraction failures

🧠 Technical notes

  1. This patch focuses strictly on parser stability and metadata recovery
  2. No UI changes were made
  3. No API or behavior changes for downstream consumers
  4. The fix is forward-compatible and does not rely on brittle hardcoded assumptions

⚠️ Why this update matters

Being unable to see formats or file sizes breaks a core promise of the app:
users should know exactly what they are downloading before they download it.

This release restores that guarantee.

✅ Recommended action

All users are strongly advised to update immediately, especially if:

  • You see empty format lists
  • File size is missing or always “unknown”
  • YouTube downloads feel unreliable at the selection stage