v1.18

• With minor adjustments, this release now supports the relaunch of Nico services on August 5th, 2024
• All features were verified or have had issues opened for investigation. If you experience any problems, please check for an existing issue or open one
• Support for URLs using the new Nico Manga host (manga.nicovideo.jp)
• Support for downloading mylists for the logged in user (https://www.nicovideo.jp/my/mylist, https://www.nicovideo.jp/my/mylist/...)
• Support for downloading a user series (https://www.nicovideo.jp/user/.../series/...)
• Improved comments extraction

v1.17

• Added a native HLS downloader that replaces the ffmpeg subprocess introduced for DMS video downloads. This allows for better progress tracking and also returns support for multithreading (-r) and proxies (-y).
• Support for downloading Seiga thumbnails
• Small bugfixes

v1.16.3

• The build and WIndows-specific issues introduced by v1.16 (introduction of DMS downloading) have been fixed in this version. Thanks for your patience!
• pip install -e now works as expected for the package

Windows binaries are now being built on each commit with a GitHub action and will be provided here on version releases. If you notice any issues, please be sure to file a bug issue.

v1.16.1

• Fixes download progress support on Windows

v1.16

• Add support for DMS (Dwango Media Services) video delivery
  • Some 1080p videos that were only available with DMS beginning 2023-11-01 can now be downloaded as expected
  • Videos longer than 30 minutes can also now be posted and retrieved in HD (720p) quality
  • Multithreading (-r/--threads) and resuming partial downloads are currently not supported when DMS is being used; muiltithreading may be deprecated or removed in a future release
• Partial video downloads are now written to .part.mp4 files, then updated to .mp4 when complete
  • If you have any remaining partial downloads with a .mp4 extension, they may be incorrectly reported as complete
• Updated requirements
• Other small changes

v1.15

• Fixed video comments extraction
• Amended the region lock check for certain video types
• Added stubbed support for the new DMS delivery on certain videos; follow development in #139

From v.14:

• Added --break-on-existing
• Added --list-qualities for videos
• Added --chinese
• Fixed Seiga image extraction

Windows binaries will no longer be provided. nndownload will now receive updates through pip exclusively: pip install nndownload
Binaries can be built as needed with pyinstaller: pyinstaller --onefile nndownload.py

v1.13.1

• Write tags in metadata as UTF-8 without casting
• Read session cookie from file (--session-cookie will check for a TXT filepath at the provided argument before using it as the string cookie value)
• Modified comments extension to .comments.json
• Small bug and maintenance fixes

v1.12.2

• Update comments API for videos
• Improve handling of exceptions

v1.12

• Add support for downloading video series
• Use LF endings on PyPi upload

v1.11.3

• Nico's login auth flow has changed, requiring the use of OTP codes in what seems to be most cases. Session cookies (--session-cookie) continue to work without requiring this step. A future release will provide a more stable way of storing your session cookie