Not using cache results in redundant network I/O due to downloading the same pages while using --playlist-items n-m
encode_dict functionality has been improved and moved directly into compat_urllib_parse_urlencode All occurrences of compat_urllib_parse.urlencode throughout the codebase have been replaced by compat_urllib_parse_urlencode Closes #8974
Fixes #8589
Now all _extract_*_formats routines return a list
Allows for optional trailing / or /index.html
Remove the commented parts for extracting the upload date