Wild Fuzz

This major release focuses on

adding advanced full-text search capabilities

using LIFTI including wild card and fuzzy matching, field-specific queries and many more

but adds other new features like

• an option for ordering playlist search results
• option -k | --keywords to search commands for listing keywords of videos in scope with number of occurrences
• support for channel slugs and handles
• support for videos with IDs starting with a dash by quoting them
• a release command for listing, opening notes of and installing other releases from github
• options for more control over cache management on the clear-cache command

with breaking changes

• the search-user command was removed; search-channel works using the same arguments
• the OR separator switches from , comma to | pipe, requiring you to quote the --for argument when using it
• the cachehours option has been renamed to cache-hours

while updating

• target framework from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 7,
• AngleSharp from 0.17.1 to 1.0.1

Other improvements

performance

• refactored parallelism using channels
• searching already indexed videos while downloading new ones in parallel
• parallelized searching individual videos

input validation and error handling

• validating video, playlist and channel IDs locally and channel aliases locally and remotely
• handling unparseble inputs and validation errors gracefully by displaying rather than logging them
• colored error output
• writing output file even if exception occurs

help texts

• are using full window width now
• have been updated and reworded where necessary