INSTALLATION
-To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type:
+To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, macOS, etc.), type:
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it.
See the pypi page for more information.
-OS X users can install youtube-dl with Homebrew:
+macOS users can install youtube-dl with Homebrew:
brew install youtube-dl
YOUTUBE-DL is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com
and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6,
2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your
-Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public
-domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however
-you like.
+Unix box, on Windows or on macOS. It is released to the public domain,
+which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you
+like.
youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
Network Options:
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
- To enable experimental SOCKS proxy, specify
- a proper scheme. For example
+ To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper
+ scheme. For example
socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty
string (--proxy "") for direct connection
--socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
some geo-restricted sites. The default
proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
- options is not present) is used for the
+ option is not present) is used for the
actual downloading.
--geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking
- X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (experimental)
+ X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
--no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via
faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
- (experimental)
--geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with
explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2
- country code (experimental)
+ country code
+ --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with
+ explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
+ notation
Video Selection:
size. By default, the buffer size is
automatically resized from an initial value
of SIZE.
+ --http-chunk-size SIZE Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
+ downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default
+ is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
+ bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
+ (experimental)
--playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
--playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
--xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
- expected file size (experimental)
+ expected file size
--hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of
ffmpeg
--hls-prefer-ffmpeg Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS
Filesystem Options:
-a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for
- stdin)
+ stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting
+ with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as
+ comments and ignored.
--id Use only video ID in file name
-o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT
TEMPLATE" for all the info
default; fix file if we can, warn
otherwise)
--prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
- postprocessors (default)
- --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
postprocessors
+ --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
+ postprocessors (default)
--ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary;
either the path to the binary or its
containing directory.
You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line
-option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide
+option to a configuration file. On Linux and macOS, the system wide
configuration file is located at /etc/youtube-dl.conf and the user wide
configuration file at ~/.config/youtube-dl/config. On Windows, the user
wide configuration file locations are %APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt or
used depends on the webpage
- comment_count (numeric): Number of comments on the video
- age_limit (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
+- is_live (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a
+ fixed-length video
+- start_time (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should
+ start, as specified in the URL
+- end_time (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should
+ end, as specified in the URL
- format (string): A human-readable description of the format
- format_id (string): Format code specified by --format
- format_note (string): Additional info about the format
with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
- playlist_id (string): Playlist identifier
- playlist_title (string): Playlist title
+- playlist_uploader (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
+- playlist_uploader_id (string): Nickname or id of the playlist
+ uploader
Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser
extension for exporting cookies. For example, cookies.txt (for Chrome)
-or Export Cookies (for Firefox).
+or cookies.txt (for Firefox).
Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the
first line of the cookies file must be either # HTTP Cookie File or
# Netscape HTTP Cookie File. Make sure you have correct newline format
in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with
your OS, namely CRLF (\r\n) for Windows and LF (\n) for Unix and
-Unix-like systems (Linux, Mac OS, etc.). HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
-when using --cookies is a good sign of invalid newline format.
+Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc.). HTTP Error 400: Bad Request when
+using --cookies is a good sign of invalid newline format.
Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a
particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case
1. Fork this repository
2. Check out the source code with:
- git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git
+ git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git
3. Start a new git branch with
- cd youtube-dl
- git checkout -b yourextractor
+ cd youtube-dl
+ git checkout -b yourextractor
4. Start with this simple template and save it to
youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py:
9. When the tests pass, add the new files and commit them and push the
result, like this:
- $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
- $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
- $ git commit -m '[yourextractor] Add new extractor'
- $ git push origin yourextractor
+ $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+ $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
+ $ git commit -m '[yourextractor] Add new extractor'
+ $ git push origin yourextractor
10. Finally, create a pull request. We'll then review and merge it.
Rapsys Git / youtubedl / blobdiff