if option.takes_value():
opts.append(' %s' % option.metavar)
- return "".join(opts)
+ return ''.join(opts)
def _comma_separated_values_options_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser):
setattr(parser.values, option.dest, value.split(','))
action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist',
default=False,
help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--mark-watched',
+ action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
+ help='Mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-mark-watched',
+ action='store_false', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
+ help='Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
general.add_option(
'--no-color', '--no-colors',
action='store_true', dest='no_color',
network.add_option(
'--proxy', dest='proxy',
default=None, metavar='URL',
- help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection')
+ help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable experimental '
+ 'SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. For example '
+ 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") '
+ 'for direct connection')
network.add_option(
'--socket-timeout',
dest='socket_timeout', type=float, default=None, metavar='SECONDS',
video_format.add_option(
'-F', '--list-formats',
action='store_true', dest='listformats',
- help='List all available formats')
+ help='List all available formats of requested videos')
video_format.add_option(
'--youtube-include-dash-manifest',
action='store_true', dest='youtube_include_dash_manifest', default=True,
subtitles.add_option(
'--write-auto-sub', '--write-automatic-sub',
action='store_true', dest='writeautomaticsub', default=False,
- help='Write automatic subtitle file (YouTube only)')
+ help='Write automatically generated subtitle file (YouTube only)')
subtitles.add_option(
'--all-subs',
action='store_true', dest='allsubtitles', default=False,
'--sub-lang', '--sub-langs', '--srt-lang',
action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
default=[], callback=_comma_separated_values_options_callback,
- help='Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, use IETF language tags like \'en,pt\'')
+ help='Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, use --list-subs for available language tags')
downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
downloader.add_option(
- '-r', '--rate-limit',
- dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT',
+ '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
+ dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)')
downloader.add_option(
'-R', '--retries',
dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--fragment-retries',
+ dest='fragment_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
+ help='Number of retries for a fragment (default is %default), or "infinite" (DASH only)')
downloader.add_option(
'--buffer-size',
dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',
help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental)')
downloader.add_option(
'--hls-prefer-native',
- dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true',
- help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental)')
+ dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true', default=None,
+ help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--hls-prefer-ffmpeg',
+ dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_false', default=None,
+ help='Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS downloader')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--hls-use-mpegts',
+ dest='hls_use_mpegts', action='store_true',
+ help='Use the mpegts container for HLS videos, allowing to play the '
+ 'video while downloading (some players may not be able to play it)')
downloader.add_option(
'--external-downloader',
dest='external_downloader', metavar='COMMAND',
action='store_true', dest='writeannotations', default=False,
help='Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file')
filesystem.add_option(
- '--load-info',
+ '--load-info-json', '--load-info',
dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
filesystem.add_option(
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-subs',
action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
- help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos)')
+ help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)')
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-thumbnail',
action='store_true', dest='embedthumbnail', default=False,
metavar='CMD', dest='exec_cmd',
help='Execute a command on the file after downloading, similar to find\'s -exec syntax. Example: --exec \'adb push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}\'')
postproc.add_option(
- '--convert-subtitles', '--convert-subs',
+ '--convert-subs', '--convert-subtitles',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertsubtitles', default=None,
help='Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)')