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   1 # -*- pod -*-
   2 =head1 NAME
   3
   4 youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com
   5
   6 =head1 SYNOPSIS
   7
   8   youtube-dl [options] url ...
   9
  10 =head1 DESCRIPTION
  11
  12 youtube-dl is a script to download videos from youtube.com.
  13
  14 Once it is installed in your system, you should be able to call it from
  15 the command line. Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl followed
  16 by a video URL or identifier. As an example, consider:
  17
  18   youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"
  19
  20 The video will be saved to the file C<foobar.flv> in that example. Many
  21 YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format and their extension would
  22 be C<flv>. Other videos are encoded in H.264 and these usually have the
  23 extension C<mp4>.  In Linux and other unices, video players using a
  24 recent version of ffmpeg can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC,
  25 xine, among others.
  26
  27 =head1 OPTIONS
  28
  29 B<youtube-dl> accepts options in the following categories
  30
  31 =over
  32
  33 =item -h, --help
  34
  35 Print help text and exit.
  36
  37 =item -v, --version
  38
  39 Print program version and exit.
  40
  41 =item -U, --update
  42
  43 Update this program to the latest stable version.
  44
  45 =item -i, --ignore-errors
  46
  47 Ignore errors during download and continue processing.
  48
  49 =item -r B<L>, --rate-limit=B<L>
  50
  51 Limit the download speed to the specified maximum B<L> (e.g., 50k or 44.6m).
  52
  53 =item -R B<R>, --retries=B<R>
  54
  55 Number B<R> of retries for a given download (default is 10).
  56
  57 =item --playlist-start=B<N>
  58
  59 The number B<N> of the video in a playlist where we should start downlading
  60 (default is 1).
  61
  62 =item --playlist-end=B<N>
  63
  64 The number B<N> of the video in a playlist where we should stop downloading
  65 (default is -1, which stands for the last video in the playlist).
  66
  67 =item --dump-user-agent
  68
  69 Display how youtube-dl will identify itself (the User-Agent string) to the
  70 remote server.
  71
  72 =item -u B<UN>, --username=B<UN>
  73
  74 Specify the youtube account username B<UN>. Some videos require an
  75 account to be downloaded, mostly because they're flagged as mature
  76 content.
  77
  78 =item -p B<PW>, --password=B<PW>
  79
  80 Like the username, specifies the account password to be B<PW>.
  81
  82 =item -n, --netrc
  83
  84 Get authentication data from the standard unix .netrc file on the user's
  85 home directory. The machine name is youtube regarding this usage.
  86
  87 =item -f B<FMT>, --format=B<FMT>
  88
  89 Specify the video format (quality) in which to download the video.
  90
  91 For youtube.com, in particular, the meaning of the format codes is given as:
  92
  93 =over
  94
  95 =item WebM video at 480p: 43
  96
  97 =item WebM video at 720p: 45
  98
  99 =item H264 video in MP4 container at 480p: 18
 100
 101 =item H264 video in MP4 container at 720p: 22
 102
 103 =item H264 video in MP4 container at 1080p: 37
 104
 105 =item H264 video in FLV container at 360p: 34
 106
 107 =item H264 video in FLV container at 480p: 35
 108
 109 =item H263 video at 240p: 5
 110
 111 =item 3GP video: 17
 112
 113 =back
 114
 115 Note that not all videos are available in all formats and that other
 116 sites supported by B<youtube-dl> may have different conventions for
 117 their video formats.
 118
 119 =item --all-formats
 120
 121 Downloads all formats for which a video may be available.
 122
 123 =item --max-quality=B<FMT>
 124
 125 Limit the maximum quality of the videos to downloads to B<FMT>.
 126
 127 =item -q, --quiet
 128
 129 Activates quiet mode, avoiding many messages being written to the
 130 terminal.
 131
 132 =item -s, --simulate
 133
 134 Simulate the operation, but do not download the video. Useful for
 135 testing.
 136
 137 =item -g, --get-url
 138
 139 Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but show the URL that would be
 140 used to download the video. Can be used with other download tools like
 141 wget or aria2c.
 142
 143 =item -e, --get-title
 144
 145 Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but show the title of the video
 146 that would be downloaded.
 147
 148 =item --get-thumbnail
 149
 150 Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the URL of of the video's
 151 thumbnail.
 152
 153 =item --get-description
 154
 155 Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the description of the
 156 video.
 157
 158 =item --get-filename
 159
 160 Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the output filename.
 161
 162 =item --no-progress
 163
 164 Do not print the progress bar during downloads.
 165
 166 =item --console-title
 167
 168 If possible, set the title of the console window with the progress of the
 169 download.
 170
 171 =item -t, --title
 172
 173 Use the title of the video in the file name used to download the video.
 174
 175 =item -l, --literal
 176
 177 Use the literal title of the video in file name used to download the
 178 video. Can contain "weird" characters that are not filtered like with
 179 the -t option.
 180
 181 =item -A, --auto-number
 182
 183 When downloading multiple videos from a playlist, automatically number them,
 184 in sequence, starting from 00000.
 185
 186 =item -o B<TPL>, --output=B<TPL>
 187
 188 Specify a template B<TPL> for the names of the files to be created when
 189 they are downloaded. The default filename is video_id.flv. But you can
 190 also use the video title in the filename with the C<-t> or C<--title>
 191 option, or preserve the literal title in the filename with the C<-l> or
 192 C<--literal> option.
 193
 194 =item -a B<F>, --batch-file=B<F>
 195
 196 Specify the name of a file containing URLs of videos to download from
 197 youtube in batch mode. The file must contain one URL per line.
 198
 199 =item -w, --no-overwrites
 200
 201 Do no overwrite already existing files.
 202
 203 =item -c, --continue
 204
 205 Resume partially downloaded files.
 206
 207 =item --cookies=B<F>
 208
 209 Store the received cookies to file B<F> (the "cookie jar").
 210
 211 =item --no-part
 212
 213 Do not append the I<.part> suffix do files that have not yet been completed.
 214
 215 =item --no-mtime
 216
 217 Do not use the I<Last-modified> header to set the file modification time.
 218
 219 =back
 220
 221 =head1 OUTPUT TEMPLATE
 222
 223 The -o option allows users to indicate a template for the output file
 224 names. The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when
 225 downloading a single file, like in youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv
 226 "http://some/video". However, it may contain special sequences that will
 227 be replaced when downloading each video.
 228
 229 The special sequences have the format C<%(NAME)s>. To clarify, that's a
 230 percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, followed by a
 231 lowercase S. Allowed names are:
 232
 233 =over
 234
 235 =item id
 236
 237 The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.
 238
 239 =item url
 240
 241 The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.
 242
 243 =item uploader
 244
 245 The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the person who uploaded
 246 the video.
 247
 248 =item title
 249
 250 The sequence will be replaced by the literal video title.
 251
 252 =item stitle
 253
 254 The sequence will be replaced by a simplified video title, restricted to
 255 alphanumeric characters and dashes.
 256
 257 =item ext
 258
 259 The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension (like C<flv>
 260 or C<mp4>).
 261
 262 =item epoch
 263
 264 The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating the file.
 265
 266 =back
 267
 268 As you may have guessed, the default template is C<%(id)s.%(ext)s>. When
 269 some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates
 270 like C<%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s>. You can specify your own.
 271
 272 =head1 AUTHOR
 273
 274 youtube-dl was written by Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez and many contributors
 275 from all around the internet.  This manpage was written by Rogerio Brito
 276 <rbrito@users.sf.net>.
 277
 278 =cut