Release 2021.12.01

yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py

@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     bidi_workaround:   Work around buggy terminals without bidirectional text
                        support, using fridibi
     debug_printtraffic:Print out sent and received HTTP traffic
-    include_ads:       Download ads as well
+    include_ads:       Download ads as well (deprecated)
     default_search:    Prepend this string if an input url is not valid.
                        'auto' for elaborate guessing
     encoding:          Use this encoding instead of the system-specified.

yt_dlp/__init__.py

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
     if opts.batchfile is not None:
         try:
             if opts.batchfile == '-':
+                write_string('Reading URLs from stdin:\n')
                 batchfd = sys.stdin
             else:
                 batchfd = io.open(

yt_dlp/update.py

@@ -109,14 +109,13 @@ def run_update(ydl):
 
     err = is_non_updateable()
     if err:
-        ydl.to_screen(f'Latest version: {version_id}, Current version: {__version__}')
         return report_error(err, True)
 
     # sys.executable is set to the full pathname of the exe-file for py2exe
     # though symlinks are not followed so that we need to do this manually
     # with help of realpath
     filename = compat_realpath(sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0])
-    ydl.to_screen(f'Current version {__version__}; Build Hash {calc_sha256sum(filename)}')
+    ydl.to_screen(f'Current Build Hash {calc_sha256sum(filename)}')
     ydl.to_screen(f'Updating to version {version_id} ...')
 
     version_labels = {