# Collaborators This is a list of the collaborators of the project and their major contributions. See the [Changelog](Changelog.md) for more details. You can also find lists of all [contributors of yt-dlp](CONTRIBUTORS) and [authors of youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/AUTHORS) ## [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan) [](https://ko-fi.com/pukkandan) * Owner of the fork ## [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev) [](https://ko-fi.com/shirt) * Multithreading (`-N`) and aria2c support for fragment downloads * Support for media initialization and discontinuity in HLS * The self-updater (`-U`) ## [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz) [](https://github.com/sponsors/coletdjnz) * YouTube improvements including: age-gate bypass, private playlists, multiple-clients (to avoid throttling) and a lot of under-the-hood improvements * Added support for downloading YoutubeWebArchive videos ## [Ashish0804](https://github.com/Ashish0804) [](https://ko-fi.com/ashish0804) * Added support for new websites Zee5, MXPlayer, DiscoveryPlusIndia, ShemarooMe, Utreon etc * Added playlist/series downloads for TubiTv, SonyLIV, Voot, HotStar etc