3 Rewrite of 2.1 and code clean up. There have been many changes.
4 For a complete list of changes, please see:
5 http://code.google.com/p/clive/wiki/WhatsNew_2_2_0
12 * Add: support for youtube-nocookie.com (closes issue #12)
13 * Add: fmt35 format ID for Youtube [closes issue #10 (and #13)]
14 * Fix: liveleak id parsing
15 * Rename: --format IDs for Youtube
19 * Rename: --output-video -> --output-file
20 * Rename: output:file -> output:filename_format (config file)
21 * Remove: --overwrite option (use --output-file instead)
23 Developer-visible changes:
24 * Add: tests/ytube-nocookies.url
28 * 2.2.0 is under development, read more here:
29 http://code.google.com/p/clive/wiki/WhatsNew_2_2_0
35 Developer-visible changes:
36 * Change: use perltidy defaults for style
37 * Change: BerkeleyDB and File::Path modules are now optional
38 ** Cache features depend on these modules
39 * Moved opted_mods initilization to init_opted_mods (-> loop)
46 * Change: --connect-timeout, --connect-timeout-socks default -> 30s
47 * Fix: timeout after file transfer starts
48 * Fix: title parsing with custom character class (closes issue #8)
49 * Add: redtube support; thanks to anonprn2@gmail.com (closes issue #11)
50 * Fix: typo in --emit-xml --help string
57 * Change: --youtube-pass: prompt for password if left undefined
58 * Change: --filename-format: default -> "%t.%s"
59 * Fix: "Use of uninitialized value $opts{"ytpass"} ..."
62 ** --connect-timeout-socks
63 * Cleanup: manual page
65 Developer-visible changes:
66 * Rename: auth_youtube subroutine -> loginto_youtube
69 * Youtube login does not work (throw an error, patches welcome!)
75 NOTE: This release changes the clive status messages. This will likely
76 break compatibility with utilities that depend on these messages.
77 The changes were made to enable using abby (0.2.0+) as a front-end
81 * Add abby (front-end) compatibility
82 - Change output similar to cclive
83 - http://code.google.com/p/abby/
84 * Add Youtube HD support (--format=mp4_hd)
85 - Thanks to bf for the patch (via FreeBSD ports)
86 * Add tv.cctv.com support [issue #6]
87 - Thanks to suntong001 for data mining
89 - --limit-rate (config: [http]:limit_rate)
90 - --hosts (print supported hosts to stdout)
91 - --stderr (redirect all output to stderr instead of stdout)
92 * Improve file suffix parsing from content-type
93 - Rewrite the content-type handling block in query_video_length
94 - Use whatever is found after slash in the content-type string
95 - Use "flv" for exceptions (e.g. octet-*, x-flv, etc.)
96 * Replace dashes in video IDs with underscores before using them in fnames
97 * Change --version output
98 * Fix reading from stdin (closes Debian #522422)
99 - Assume reading from stdin only if queue and argv arrays are empty
100 * Fix exit with status code
101 - Exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs
103 Developer-visible changes:
104 * Update examples/config with limit_rate
105 * Rename: configrc -> examples/config
106 * Replace the monstrous if-elsif-$host code block with a loop
112 User-visible changes:
113 * Fix GoogleVideo "id not found" handling
114 - Symptom: exit after "process page..." message
115 - Cause: no check for undefined id value
116 * Fix GoogleVideo support
117 - Symptom: see above fix
118 - Cause: HTML changes to the video pages
119 * Fix URI::Escape import for GoogleVideo redirects
120 - Symptom: crash with "Undefined subroutine &URI::Escape::uri_unescape"
121 - Cause: recent script start optimizations; a missing 'require'
123 - Symptom: "expected different content-type"
124 - Cause: website content-type changes
126 Developer-visible changes:
127 * Cleanup code (style-wise)
128 - perltidy -gnu -l=72
134 User-visible changes:
135 * Keep URL queue order
136 - Remove duplicate URL checking
137 * Remove --modver, change --version output
138 * Update manual page (clive.1, clive.pod)
139 - Rewrite EXAMPLES section
140 - Cleanup other sections
141 * Config file: add support for [output]:format (--format)
142 * Port dailymotion support from cclive
144 Developer-visible changes:
146 - Replace Perl module checking with for-loops (incl. optional)
147 * Optimize script start time
148 - Replace "use $module" with "require $module" where possible
149 * Update LICENSE, configrc
151 - Add [output]:format to configrc
152 * Add tests/dmotion.url
158 User-visible changes:
159 * Add --output-video option
160 * Add option groups to --help output
161 * Add --stream-exec and --stream options
163 * Config file: add support for
164 - [commands]:exec (--exec)
165 - [commands]:stream (--stream-exec)
166 - See configrc for an example
167 * Fix --exec; should no longer spew out "not found" shell errors
168 * Change default filename format to "%t_%d_%i.%s"
169 * Change to use "file is already fully retrieved" error message
170 * Port resizing progressbar from cclive
172 Developer-visible changes:
173 * Add tests/lastfm.url and tests/multi.lst
174 * Remove XML::Simple dependency
176 * Implement SIGWINCH handling
177 - Resize progressbar to match terminal width
178 - Progressbar width defaults to 80 (chars)
179 - OS must support SIGWINCH
180 - Requires Term::ReadKey module
181 - clive works without the module but will ignore any SIGWINCH events
182 * Touch cclive.1, cclive.pod, INSTALL and Makefile files
186 * Buried clive-list, grew weary of fighting spam with bare fists
187 - email the author directly or use the issue tracker, thanks
193 User-visible changes:
194 * Renamed the following options
195 - --noproxy => --no-proxy
196 - --noextract => --no-extract
197 - --nologin => --no-login
198 * Butchered --help output
199 - much less verbose now
200 - relocated manual page data to clive.pod
201 * Removed --manual option
202 * Obsoleted "play" and "rencode" config keys in "commands" section
203 * Added --exec option which resembles cclive's --exec command
204 * Removed --play, --noplay, --rencode and --norencode options
206 * Changed --paste short option from '-x' to '-p'
207 * Removed wmv format (breakcom)
208 - persistant HTTP/404 (not found) error
210 Developer-visible changes:
212 - additional INSTALL variables
214 - can be used to disable module checks
215 - removed "man" from "all"
216 - removed "clean" (useless)
222 User-visible changes:
223 * Fixed sevenload support
229 User-visible changes:
230 * Fixed Youtube login which sometimes reported failed attempts as OK
231 - Youtube defaults web interface language based on users ip
232 - clive looks for English words in the post-login page to confirm login
233 * Tweaked --version output
235 Developer-visible changes:
236 * Removed metacafe remnants
237 * Fixed bug in time2str subroutine which caused incorrect calculations
239 * removed genman script (obsoleted by "make man")
240 * Added a rudimentary (GNU) Makefile
241 * Cleaned up translate_embed subroutine
244 * Removed the clive-announce and clive-users mailing lists
245 - New release announcements will be posted via Freshmeat alone from now on
246 - Subscribe to the project at http://freshmeat.net/projects/clive
247 * Created the clive-list@googlegroups.com mailing-list
248 - For support questions, patches and bug reports
249 - Issue tracker will remain for tracking bugs
250 - Send an email to clive-list-subscribe@googlegroups.com to subscribe
256 User-visible changes:
257 * Documented missing "%t" (--filename-format) in manual page
258 * Tweaked "localfile_length == remotefile_length" message
259 * Renamed CLIVE_CONFIGDIR environment variable to CLIVE_HOME
261 Developer-visible changes:
262 * Cleaned up manual page
264 * Cleaned up FreeBSD details (INSTALL)
270 User-visible changes:
271 * Removed "See --manual" from --version output
272 * Added support for evisortv
273 - http://code.google.com/p/clive/issues/detail?id=4
274 * Fixed: reused incorrectly last http error code for remaining urls in queue
275 * Fixed: progressbar reported 100% even if error had occurred (e.g. http/403)
277 Developer-visible changes:
278 * Cleaned up subroutines
284 User-visible changes:
285 * Fixed "Requested range was not delivered by the server (http/33)" w/ -c
286 - this would occur with a batch of URLs while using the --continue option,
287 e.g. if the first file was continued, the following page fetches exited
289 * Added --savebatch option
290 * Added --overwrite option
291 * Replaced the buggy progressbar with a "lazy man's progressbar"
292 * Fixed "print() on closed filehandle STDOUT" with --grep+delete
293 * Fixed progressbar display with --continue
295 Developer-visible changes:
297 * Started to bundle src tarball with clive.1 manual page
298 * Added genman script which wraps pod2man with common options
299 * Fixed a potential div by zero bug in calc_progress
305 NOTE: Changed license GPL3 => ISC/OpenBSD.
307 User-visible changes:
308 * Added --modversion option
309 * Replaced Term::Progressbar with a built-in thermometer progressbar
310 * Removed --progress=bar:nominor support due to above changes
311 * Added liveleakcom support
312 - http://code.google.com/p/clive/issues/detail?id=3
314 Developer-visible changes:
315 * Made IO::Pager module optional
317 * Cleaned up --progress option description
318 * Changed to require WWW::Curl 4.05+
319 * Removed Term::Progress module dependency
320 * Fixed a potential bug in calc_progress (improper $rate init)
322 * Made Expect module optional
328 User-visible changes:
329 * Fixed gvideo/mp4 support (http/404 even if the extraction link existed)
330 * Changed "found redirect" message
331 * Changed --play, --rencode status messages to use file basename
333 Developer-visible changes:
334 * decode_utf8($page): removes extra steps, works better with HTML::TokeParser
335 * Added missing Expect module version to INSTALL
342 This aims to be the last beta before the release of 2.0 in December 2008.
343 Please report any remaining bugs to the issue tracker at:
344 http://code.google.com/p/clive/issues/list
346 User-visible changes:
347 * Removed metacafe support until fixed (see known issues)
348 * Changed Youtube login to report if there were "too many login failures"
349 * Fixed Youtube login support: reported failures incorrectly as OK
350 * Added support clivepass(1) utility (http://code.google.com/p/clive-utils)
351 * Added support for metacafe and sevenload embed URL translation
353 Developer-visible changes:
355 * New prerequisite module: Expect
356 * Updated FreeBSD + Ubuntu details (INSTALL)
357 * Cleaned up some code
358 * Rewrote embed URL translation
361 * Metacafe support broken (http/404)
367 User-visible changes:
368 * Fixed pasting from clipboard containing multiple URLs
369 * Fixed page fetch progress glitch that occured with 1+ batches
370 * Added --agent option
371 * Added --proxy option
372 * Added --savedir option
373 * Added --cclass option
374 * Added --filename-format option
375 * Added --show-format option
376 * Added --youtube-user and --youtube-pass options
377 * Added --emit-xml option
378 * Added --progress=[none|bar|dot]
379 * Replaced --noprogress with --progress=none
380 * Added avg. transfer rate notification
381 * Fixed filename printing for existing output files (e.g. output.flv.1)
382 * Added --play option
383 * Fixed metacafe support (error: failed to extract videoCDNURL)
384 * Added --rencode option
386 Developer-visible changes:
387 * Ported --emit-csv option from 1.x with minor changes
388 - Backwards compatible with 1.x
389 - Prints additional video details
390 - $length, $video_id, $time_stamp, $page_title, $cont_from, $remaining
391 * Changed to prefer 'dot' bar if the output is not a TTY
392 * Replaced progress bar with Term::ProgressBar (new module prerequisite)
393 * Cleaned up queue processing subroutine
399 User-visible changes:
400 * clive now ignores input lines that start with the '#' character
401 * Added support for CLIVE_CONFIGDIR environment variable
402 * Ported lastfm video support from 1.x
403 * --version now displays XML::Simple
404 * Changed "= Play:" to "=> Playing ..."
405 * Playing occurs now subsequently after going over the URL batch
407 Developer-visible changes:
408 * Removed a google video redirect (commented out, see code)
409 * Added the AUTHORS file
410 * XML::Simple was missing as a prerequisite in INSTALL
411 * Made minor syntactic tweaks to the source code
412 * Fixed missing --quiet check with the "=> Play" message
418 A complete overhaul and rewrite of 1.x.
420 User-visible changes:
421 * Users are expected to use the --continue/-c option to resume transfers
422 * Configuration file format (=> INI), path was changed (=> ~/.config/clive)
423 * All extractions now assume flv as the default download format
424 * Users are expected to understand when/how use the --format/-f option
425 * Reading input from multiple sources is possible (e.g. % clive -x URL URL)
426 * Added: --grep: used to grep and recall cached URL entries
427 * Added: --background and --output=logfile, --append=logfile options
428 * Many old cmdline and config options were removed due to new design
429 * Improved GoogleVideo support: handles redirects to other hosts
430 * Pager is used where needed (e.g. --show/-s)
431 * Changed default output file naming format to "%n-(%i)-[%d].%s"
432 * Removed: guba (deadweight), myvideo (borked), dmotion (bitches @ anon users)
434 Developer-visible changes:
436 - See the INSTALL file for prerequisites
437 * No installation: all-in-one script (excl. the 3rd party modules)
438 * Cache is now an integral part of clive, see CACHE in the manual page
439 * Embedded the --manual page (Pod)
440 * Improved Youtube login: removed is_adult HTTP get (done manually now)
441 * Grab the file suffix from the Content-Type header
442 * Improved GoogleVideo support: mp4 detection no more relies on English words
443 * Improved Metacafe support: removed unnecessary "familyfilter" HTTP get
447 - 2.x+ at http://googlecode.com/p/clive/
448 - 1.x remains at http://gna.org/projects/clive
450 - 2.x+ at http://googlecode.com/p/clive/
451 - 1.x remain at http://dl.gna.org/clive
453 - http://clive.sf.net/
454 - http://home.gna.org/clive redirects to the above
456 - 2.x+ at git://repo.or.cz/clive.git
457 - 1.x remains at svn://svn.gna.org/svn/clive
458 * Issue tracking: Moved
459 - 2.x+ at http://googlecode.com/p/clive/issues/
460 - 1.x bug tracker remains at http://gna.org/projects/clive
461 * Created http://googlegroups.com/group/clive-announce/
463 NOTE: See http://dl.gna.org/clive/CHANGES for 1.x.