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1 youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
2
3 SYNOPSIS
4 ========
5
6 youtube-dl OPTIONS URL [URL...]
7
8 INSTALLATION
9 ============
10
11 To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type:
12
13 sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
14 sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
15
16 If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
17
18 sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2014.05.13/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
19 sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
20
21 Windows users can download a .exe file and place it in their home
22 directory or any other location on their PATH.
23
24 Alternatively, refer to the developer instructions below for how to
25 check out and work with the git repository. For further options,
26 including PGP signatures, see
27 https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html .
28
29 DESCRIPTION
30 ===========
31
32 youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from
33 YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter,
34 version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+, and it is not platform specific. It should
35 work on your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the
36 public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it
37 however you like.
38
39 OPTIONS
40 =======
41
42 -h, --help print this help text and exit
43 --version print program version and exit
44 -U, --update update this program to latest version. Make
45 sure that you have sufficient permissions
46 (run with sudo if needed)
47 -i, --ignore-errors continue on download errors, for example to
48 skip unavailable videos in a playlist
49 --abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos (in the
50 playlist or the command line) if an error
51 occurs
52 --dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
53 --user-agent UA specify a custom user agent
54 --referer REF specify a custom referer, use if the video
55 access is restricted to one domain
56 --add-header FIELD:VALUE specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
57 separated by a colon ':'. You can use this
58 option multiple times
59 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs
60 they would handle
61 --extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
62 extractors
63 --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in
64 an empty string (--proxy "") for direct
65 connection
66 --no-check-certificate Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.
67 --prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
68 information about the video. (Currently
69 supported only for YouTube)
70 --cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
71 can store some downloaded information
72 permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME
73 /youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the
74 moment, only YouTube player files (for
75 videos with obfuscated signatures) are
76 cached, but that may change.
77 --no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
78 --socket-timeout None Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
79 --bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack
80 bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
81 or fribidi executable in PATH
82 --default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
83 example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
84 from google videos for youtube-dl "large
85 apple". Use the value "auto" to let
86 youtube-dl guess. The default value "error"
87 just throws an error.
88 --ignore-config Do not read configuration files. When given
89 in the global configuration file /etc
90 /youtube-dl.conf: do not read the user
91 configuration in ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf
92 (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt on
93 Windows)
94 --encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
95
96 Video Selection:
97 ----------------
98
99 --playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
100 --playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last)
101 --match-title REGEX download only matching titles (regex or
102 caseless sub-string)
103 --reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or
104 caseless sub-string)
105 --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
106 --min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
107 SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
108 --max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
109 (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
110 --date DATE download only videos uploaded in this date
111 --datebefore DATE download only videos uploaded on or before
112 this date (i.e. inclusive)
113 --dateafter DATE download only videos uploaded on or after
114 this date (i.e. inclusive)
115 --min-views COUNT Do not download any videos with less than
116 COUNT views
117 --max-views COUNT Do not download any videos with more than
118 COUNT views
119 --no-playlist download only the currently playing video
120 --age-limit YEARS download only videos suitable for the given
121 age
122 --download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
123 archive file. Record the IDs of all
124 downloaded videos in it.
125 --include-ads Download advertisements as well
126 (experimental)
127 --youtube-include-dash-manifest Try to download the DASH manifest on
128 YouTube videos (experimental)
129
130 Download Options:
131 -----------------
132
133 -r, --rate-limit LIMIT maximum download rate in bytes per second
134 (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
135 -R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10)
136 --buffer-size SIZE size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
137 (default is 1024)
138 --no-resize-buffer do not automatically adjust the buffer
139 size. By default, the buffer size is
140 automatically resized from an initial value
141 of SIZE.
142
143 Filesystem Options:
144 -------------------
145
146 -t, --title use title in file name (default)
147 --id use only video ID in file name
148 -l, --literal [deprecated] alias of --title
149 -A, --auto-number number downloaded files starting from 00000
150 -o, --output TEMPLATE output filename template. Use %(title)s to
151 get the title, %(uploader)s for the
152 uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the
153 uploader nickname if different,
154 %(autonumber)s to get an automatically
155 incremented number, %(ext)s for the
156 filename extension, %(format)s for the
157 format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or
158 "HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of
159 the format (like Youtube's itags: "137"),
160 %(upload_date)s for the upload date
161 (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
162 (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the
163 video id, %(playlist)s for the playlist the
164 video is in, %(playlist_index)s for the
165 position in the playlist and %% for a
166 literal percent. %(height)s and %(width)s
167 for the width and height of the video
168 format. %(resolution)s for a textual
169 description of the resolution of the video
170 format. Use - to output to stdout. Can also
171 be used to download to a different
172 directory, for example with -o '/my/downloa
173 ds/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
174 --autonumber-size NUMBER Specifies the number of digits in
175 %(autonumber)s when it is present in output
176 filename template or --auto-number option
177 is given
178 --restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
179 characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
180 filenames
181 -a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for
182 stdin)
183 --load-info FILE json file containing the video information
184 (created with the "--write-json" option)
185 -w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files
186 -c, --continue force resume of partially downloaded files.
187 By default, youtube-dl will resume
188 downloads if possible.
189 --no-continue do not resume partially downloaded files
190 (restart from beginning)
191 --cookies FILE file to read cookies from and dump cookie
192 jar in
193 --no-part do not use .part files
194 --no-mtime do not use the Last-modified header to set
195 the file modification time
196 --write-description write video description to a .description
197 file
198 --write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file
199 --write-annotations write video annotations to a .annotation
200 file
201 --write-thumbnail write thumbnail image to disk
202
203 Verbosity / Simulation Options:
204 -------------------------------
205
206 -q, --quiet activates quiet mode
207 --no-warnings Ignore warnings
208 -s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write
209 anything to disk
210 --skip-download do not download the video
211 -g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL
212 -e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title
213 --get-id simulate, quiet but print id
214 --get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
215 --get-description simulate, quiet but print video description
216 --get-duration simulate, quiet but print video length
217 --get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename
218 --get-format simulate, quiet but print output format
219 -j, --dump-json simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
220 See --output for a description of available
221 keys.
222 --newline output progress bar as new lines
223 --no-progress do not print progress bar
224 --console-title display progress in console titlebar
225 -v, --verbose print various debugging information
226 --dump-intermediate-pages print downloaded pages to debug problems
227 (very verbose)
228 --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to
229 files in the current directory to debug
230 problems
231 --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
232
233 Video Format Options:
234 ---------------------
235
236 -f, --format FORMAT video format code, specify the order of
237 preference using slashes: "-f 22/17/18".
238 "-f mp4" and "-f flv" are also supported.
239 You can also use the special names "best",
240 "bestvideo", "bestaudio", "worst",
241 "worstvideo" and "worstaudio". By default,
242 youtube-dl will pick the best quality.
243 --all-formats download all available video formats
244 --prefer-free-formats prefer free video formats unless a specific
245 one is requested
246 --max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download
247 -F, --list-formats list all available formats
248
249 Subtitle Options:
250 -----------------
251
252 --write-sub write subtitle file
253 --write-auto-sub write automatic subtitle file (youtube
254 only)
255 --all-subs downloads all the available subtitles of
256 the video
257 --list-subs lists all available subtitles for the video
258 --sub-format FORMAT subtitle format (default=srt) ([sbv/vtt]
259 youtube only)
260 --sub-lang LANGS languages of the subtitles to download
261 (optional) separated by commas, use IETF
262 language tags like 'en,pt'
263
264 Authentication Options:
265 -----------------------
266
267 -u, --username USERNAME account username
268 -p, --password PASSWORD account password
269 -n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
270 --video-password PASSWORD video password (vimeo, smotri)
271
272 Post-processing Options:
273 ------------------------
274
275 -x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files
276 (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
277 avprobe)
278 --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a",
279 "opus", or "wav"; best by default
280 --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification,
281 insert a value between 0 (better) and 9
282 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like
283 128K (default 5)
284 --recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if
285 necessary (currently supported:
286 mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv)
287 -k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the
288 post-processing; the video is erased by
289 default
290 --no-post-overwrites do not overwrite post-processed files; the
291 post-processed files are overwritten by
292 default
293 --embed-subs embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4
294 videos)
295 --embed-thumbnail embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
296 --add-metadata write metadata to the video file
297 --xattrs write metadata to the video file's xattrs
298 (using dublin core and xdg standards)
299 --prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
300 postprocessors (default)
301 --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
302 postprocessors
303
304 CONFIGURATION
305 =============
306
307 You can configure youtube-dl by placing default arguments (such as
308 --extract-audio --no-mtime to always extract the audio and not copy the
309 mtime) into /etc/youtube-dl.conf and/or ~/.config/youtube-dl/config. On
310 Windows, the configuration file locations are
311 %APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt and C:\Users\<Yourname>\youtube-dl.conf.
312
313 OUTPUT TEMPLATE
314 ===============
315
316 The -o option allows users to indicate a template for the output file
317 names. The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when
318 downloading a single file, like in
319 youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv "http://some/video". However, it may
320 contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each
321 video. The special sequences have the format %(NAME)s. To clarify, that
322 is a percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, followed by a
323 lowercase S. Allowed names are:
324
325 - id: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.
326 - url: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.
327 - uploader: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the
328 person who uploaded the video.
329 - upload_date: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date in
330 YYYYMMDD format.
331 - title: The sequence will be replaced by the video title.
332 - ext: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension
333 (like flv or mp4).
334 - epoch: The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating
335 the file.
336 - autonumber: The sequence will be replaced by a five-digit number
337 that will be increased with each download, starting at zero.
338 - playlist: The name or the id of the playlist that contains the
339 video.
340 - playlist_index: The index of the video in the playlist, a five-digit
341 number.
342
343 The current default template is %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s.
344
345 In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or
346 &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system
347 or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the
348 --restrict-filenames flag to get a shorter title:
349
350 $ youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
351 youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
352 $ youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
353 youtube-dl_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file name
354
355 VIDEO SELECTION
356 ===============
357
358 Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options --date,
359 --datebefore or --dateafter, they accept dates in two formats:
360
361 - Absolute dates: Dates in the format YYYYMMDD.
362 - Relative dates: Dates in the format
363 (now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?
364
365 Examples:
366
367 # Download only the videos uploaded in the last 6 months
368 $ youtube-dl --dateafter now-6months
369
370 # Download only the videos uploaded on January 1, 1970
371 $ youtube-dl --date 19700101
372
373 $ # will only download the videos uploaded in the 200x decade
374 $ youtube-dl --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231
375
376 FAQ
377 ===
378
379 Can you please put the -b option back?
380
381 Most people asking this question are not aware that youtube-dl now
382 defaults to downloading the highest available quality as reported by
383 YouTube, which will be 1080p or 720p in some cases, so you no longer
384 need the -b option. For some specific videos, maybe YouTube does not
385 report them to be available in a specific high quality format you're
386 interested in. In that case, simply request it with the -f option and
387 youtube-dl will try to download it.
388
389 I get HTTP error 402 when trying to download a video. What's this?
390
391 Apparently YouTube requires you to pass a CAPTCHA test if you download
392 too much. We're considering to provide a way to let you solve the
393 CAPTCHA, but at the moment, your best course of action is pointing a
394 webbrowser to the youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart
395 youtube-dl.
396
397 I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?
398
399 Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as vlc or
400 mplayer.
401
402 The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
403
404 The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct
405 cookies. Use the --cookies option to write the required cookies into a
406 file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some
407 sites also require a common user agent to be used, use --dump-user-agent
408 to see the one in use by youtube-dl.
409
410 ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
411
412 youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is
413 not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl
414 with sudo youtube-dl --update.
415
416 ERROR: unable to download video
417
418 youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is
419 not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl
420 with sudo youtube-dl --update.
421
422 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character
423
424 The error
425
426 File "youtube-dl", line 2
427 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
428
429 means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to
430 Python 2.6 or 2.7.
431
432 What is this binary file? Where has the code gone?
433
434 Since June 2012 (#342) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile,
435 simply unzip it (might need renaming to youtube-dl.zip first on some
436 systems) or clone the git repository, as laid out above. If you modify
437 the code, you can run it by executing the __main__.py file. To recompile
438 the executable, run make youtube-dl.
439
440 The exe throws a Runtime error from Visual C++
441
442 To run the exe you need to install first the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
443 Redistributable Package.
444
445 DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS
446 ======================
447
448 Most users do not need to build youtube-dl and can download the builds
449 or get them from their distribution.
450
451 To run youtube-dl as a developer, you don't need to build anything
452 either. Simply execute
453
454 python -m youtube_dl
455
456 To run the test, simply invoke your favorite test runner, or execute a
457 test file directly; any of the following work:
458
459 python -m unittest discover
460 python test/test_download.py
461 nosetests
462
463 If you want to create a build of youtube-dl yourself, you'll need
464
465 - python
466 - make
467 - pandoc
468 - zip
469 - nosetests
470
471 Adding support for a new site
472
473 If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick
474 list (assuming your service is called yourextractor):
475
476 1. Fork this repository
477 2. Check out the source code with
478 git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git
479 3. Start a new git branch with
480 cd youtube-dl; git checkout -b yourextractor
481 4. Start with this simple template and save it to
482 youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py:
483
484 # coding: utf-8
485 from __future__ import unicode_literals
486
487 import re
488
489 from .common import InfoExtractor
490
491
492 class YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor):
493 _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?yourextractor\.com/watch/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
494 _TEST = {
495 'url': 'http://yourextractor.com/watch/42',
496 'md5': 'TODO: md5 sum of the first 10KiB of the video file',
497 'info_dict': {
498 'id': '42',
499 'ext': 'mp4',
500 'title': 'Video title goes here',
501 # TODO more properties, either as:
502 # * A value
503 # * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
504 # * A regular expression; start the string with re:
505 # * Any Python type (for example int or float)
506 }
507 }
508
509 def _real_extract(self, url):
510 mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
511 video_id = mobj.group('id')
512
513 # TODO more code goes here, for example ...
514 webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
515 title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1>(.*?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
516
517 return {
518 'id': video_id,
519 'title': title,
520 # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
521 }
522
523 5. Add an import in youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py.
524 6. Run python test/test_download.py TestDownload.test_YourExtractor.
525 This should fail at first, but you can continually re-run it until
526 you're done.
527 7. Have a look at youtube_dl/common/extractor/common.py for possible
528 helper methods and a detailed description of what your extractor
529 should return. Add tests and code for as many as you want.
530 8. If you can, check the code with pyflakes (a good idea) and pep8
531 (optional, ignore E501).
532 9. When the tests pass, add the new files and commit them and push the
533 result, like this:
534
535 $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
536 $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
537 $ git commit -m '[yourextractor] Add new extractor'
538 $ git push origin yourextractor
539
540 10. Finally, create a pull request. We'll then review and merge it.
541
542 In any case, thank you very much for your contributions!
543
544 BUGS
545 ====
546
547 Bugs and suggestions should be reported at:
548 https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues . Unless you were prompted so
549 or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the
550 bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email.
551
552 Please include the full output of the command when run with --verbose.
553 The output (including the first lines) contain important debugging
554 information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible
555 and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.
556
557 For discussions, join us in the irc channel #youtube-dl on freenode.
558
559 When you submit a request, please re-read it once to avoid a couple of
560 mistakes (you can and should use this as a checklist):
561
562 Is the description of the issue itself sufficient?
563
564 We often get issue reports that we cannot really decipher. While in most
565 cases we eventually get the required information after asking back
566 multiple times, this poses an unnecessary drain on our resources. Many
567 contributors, including myself, are also not native speakers, so we may
568 misread some parts.
569
570 So please elaborate on what feature you are requesting, or what bug you
571 want to be fixed. Make sure that it's obvious
572
573 - What the problem is
574 - How it could be fixed
575 - How your proposed solution would look like
576
577 If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing
578 some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it. We're often
579 too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes
580 misinterpretation likely. As a commiter myself, I often get frustrated
581 by these issues, since the only possible way for me to move forward on
582 them is to ask for clarification over and over.
583
584 For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the complete
585 output of youtube-dl when called with the -v flag. The error message you
586 get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would not believe how many of
587 our bug reports do not contain this information.
588
589 Site support requests must contain an example URL. An example URL is a
590 URL you might want to download, like
591 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . There should be an obvious
592 video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of
593 a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/ ) is not an example URL.
594
595 Are you using the latest version?
596
597 Before reporting any issue, type youtube-dl -U. This should report that
598 you're up-to-date. About 20% of the reports we receive are already
599 fixed, but people are using outdated versions. This goes for feature
600 requests as well.
601
602 Is the issue already documented?
603
604 Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to
605 open. Search at the top of the window or at
606 https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues . If there is an
607 issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me
608 as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the
609 issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often
610 spurs rapid activity.
611
612 Why are existing options not enough?
613
614 Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at the list of
615 supported options. Many feature requests are for features that actually
616 exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue
617 report and detail how the existing similar options do not solve your
618 problem.
619
620 Is there enough context in your bug report?
621
622 People want to solve problems, and often think they do us a favor by
623 breaking down their larger problems (e.g. wanting to skip already
624 downloaded files) to a specific request (e.g. requesting us to look
625 whether the file exists before downloading the info page). However, what
626 often happens is that they break down the problem into two steps: One
627 simple, and one impossible (or extremely complicated one).
628
629 We are then presented with a very complicated request when the original
630 problem could be solved far easier, e.g. by recording the downloaded
631 video IDs in a separate file. To avoid this, you must include the
632 greater context where it is non-obvious. In particular, every feature
633 request that does not consist of adding support for a new site should
634 contain a use case scenario that explains in what situation the missing
635 feature would be useful.
636
637 Does the issue involve one problem, and one problem only?
638
639 Some of our users seem to think there is a limit of issues they can or
640 should open. There is no limit of issues they can or should open. While
641 it may seem appealing to be able to dump all your issues into one
642 ticket, that means that someone who solves one of your issues cannot
643 mark the issue as closed. Typically, reporting a bunch of issues leads
644 to the ticket lingering since nobody wants to attack that behemoth,
645 until someone mercifully splits the issue into multiple ones.
646
647 In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to
648 services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using
649 the same backend technology). Do not request support for vimeo user
650 videos, Whitehouse podcasts, and Google Plus pages in the same issue.
651 Also, make sure that you don't post bug reports alongside feature
652 requests. As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs
653 of youtube-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand.
654 Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new
655 video service.
656
657 Is anyone going to need the feature?
658
659 Only post features that you (or an incapicated friend you can personally
660 talk to) require. Do not post features because they seem like a good
661 idea. If they are really useful, they will be requested by someone who
662 requires them.
663
664 Is your question about youtube-dl?
665
666 It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely
667 unrelated to youtube-dl and relate to a different or even the reporter's
668 own application. Please make sure that you are actually using
669 youtube-dl. If you are using a UI for youtube-dl, report the bug to the
670 maintainer of the actual application providing the UI. On the other
671 hand, if your UI for youtube-dl fails in some way you believe is related
672 to youtube-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the bug.
673
674 COPYRIGHT
675 =========
676
677 youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
678
679 This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton
680 (https://github.com/dbbolton) and is likewise released into the public
681 domain.
682