During January 2025, Knackku enhanced the XHamster extractor within the yt-dlp/yt-dlp repository, focusing on expanding domain support and improving data extraction accuracy. Using Python, they broadened the extractor’s compatibility to cover additional domains, which streamlines future maintenance and increases data coverage. Their work included refining the logic for extracting comment counts, addressing previous inaccuracies in video metadata. Knackku also strengthened the project’s testing framework by introducing richer scenarios and new test URLs, leveraging skills in API integration and web scraping. These targeted improvements contributed to a more robust and maintainable codebase, reflecting thoughtful engineering within a short timeframe.