Changelog¶

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased¶

Added¶

• extract
  • New --output flag.
• license
  • New sub-command to request content keys from a license server.
• save
  • Support for fake png header segments.

Changed¶

• save
  • --set-cookie and --user-agent flags removed.
  • Default retries changed from 15 to 10.
• capture
  • Feature re-worked.

0.4.3 - 2025-08-16¶

Added¶

• save
  • New --subs-codec flag.

Fixed¶

• save
  • Decryption bug fixes. (#54, #61).
  • Download size estimations.

0.4.2 - 2025-08-12¶

Changed¶

• save
  • Removed --all-streams, --audio-lang, --quality, --skip-audio, --skip-subs, --skip-video, --subs-lang flags and merged there functionality into --select-streams flag,

Fixed¶

• save
  • Subtitles codec detection. (#58).

0.4.1 - 2025-08-10¶

Fixed¶

• save
  • SegmentBase@indexRange addressing mode for DASH streams.

0.4.0 - 2025-06-13¶

Added¶

• capture
  • Support for downloading session cookies.
  • Support for proxy server.
• save
  • More robust subtitles codec detection.
  • New and improved automation support.
  • Support for HLS SAMPLE-AES stream decrytion.

Changed¶

• save
  • Now by default vsd proceeds with default stream selections. The old behaviour can still be used using -i, --interactive and --interactive-raw flags.
  • One unified progress bar tracking the entire download.
  • Removed --no-query-pass flag.
  • Removed support for custom hls key.
  • Renamed --retry-count to --retries flag.
  • Unknown codec subtitles can now ne downloaded.

Fixed¶

• save
  • Mux commands for solo streams.
• Query support.

0.3.3 - 2025-03-14¶

Added¶

• save
  • --no-query-pass flag.
  • --query flag.
• Optimized threads management.

Changed¶

• --key flag now has a different syntax.
• Query parameters are passed on by default now. This behaviour can be changed using --no-query-pass flag.

Fixed¶

• Ffmpeg can now be fetched from working directory. (#42)
• Passing query parameters for DASH playlists. (#36)

0.3.2 - 2024-06-23¶

Changed¶

• Removed self update checker.
• Website scraper now only parses qouted links.

Fixed¶

• --cookies flag and it's implementation.
• Amalgated links found through website scraper.
• Detect missing ffmpeg binary when it is required.

0.3.1 - 2024-06-22¶

Added¶

• save
  • --no-merge flag. (#17, #20)
  • --parse flag.

Fixed¶

• save
  • Handle --output flag correctly. (#21)

0.3.0 - 2023-08-18¶

Added¶

• --color flag to control when to output colored text.
• capture
  • --cookies, --directory, --save, --extensions and --resource-types flags.
• save
  • Support for HLS #EXT-X-MAP tag.
  • Support for multi period DASH manifests.
  • Support for downloading playlists with single segment.
  • Support for parsing pssh box from initialization and displaying all key ids.
  • Support for browser cookies i.e. with --cookies flag.
  • Support for socks proxy.
  • min / lowest quality option for --quality flag.
  • --skip-prompts, --all-keys, --no-decrypt and --no-certificate-checks flags.

Changed¶

• capture
  • collect sub-command is merged with capture sub-command.
  • --build flag is removed from collect sub-command.
• collect sub-command is removed.
• decrypt sub-command is removed.
• extract
  • input now only accepts single file.
  • --format flag is replaced with --codec flag.
• merge
  • --ffmpeg flag is replaced with --type flag.
• save
  • Video stream selection prompt is replaced with multi select prompt. Also, --alternative flag is removed and merged in this prompt.
  • Use more accurate units (KiB, MiB, ..) to show download progress. Also, spinner is removed from progress bar.
  • --cookies flag is renamed as --set-cookie.
  • --baseurl flag is renamed as --base-url.
  • --proxy-address flag is renamed as --proxy.
  • --quality flag now also matches height if that specific resolution is not found.

Fixed¶

• capture
  • Handle CTRL+C signal correctly.
• save
  • Some program panics when auto selecting streams using --quality flag.
  • --directory and --header flag implementation.
  • Unknown errors while extracting stpp and application/ttml+xml streams.
  • Use HLS #EXT-X-KEY tag more correctly.
  • DASH stream parsing logic.

0.2.5 - 2023-01-09¶

Changed¶

• Do not use space character when saving file, instead use vsd_* prefix.
• capture and collect sub-commands are kept under optional cargo feature (chrome) but this feature is enabled by default.

Fixed¶

• Relative url build using baseurl for local .mpd files.
• Segmentation fault when using threads more than 1.
• Subtitles saved as .txt but ffmpeg command uses .vtt.
• Match playlist kid(s) correctly with --key flag.

0.2.0 - 2022-10-08¶

Added¶

• DASH support with decryption and subtitles.
• Sub-commands instead of a single command where save is the main sub-command.
• New singular progress bar for complete download progress.
• Better variant stream selection and display order.
• Improved support for playlists using byte range.
• Improved capture and collect sub-commands.
  • Using response received url when using capture sub-command.
  • Using chrome response for fetching playlists when using collect sub-command.

Changed¶

• Default command is split into save, capture and collect sub-commands.
• Resume support is removed for now.

Fixed¶

• .vtt -> .srt conversion ffmpeg command correction.
• No website scraping when extension is .m3u.

0.1.2 - 2022-07-09¶

Added¶

• New --build flag.
• .srt subtitles collection with --collect flag.

Fixed¶

• Not intercepting requests before navigating to website when using --capture and --collect flags.

0.1.0 - 2022-06-22¶