-.TH YOUTUBE\-DL 1 ""
+.TH "YOUTUBE\-DL" "1" "" "" ""
.SH NAME
.PP
youtube\-dl \- download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
-\f[B]youtube\-dl\f[] OPTIONS (#options) URL [URL...]
+\f[B]youtube\-dl\f[] [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
-\f[B]youtube\-dl\f[] is a small 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 3.3+, and it is
+\f[B]youtube\-dl\f[] 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.
.SH OPTIONS
-.IP
-.nf
-\f[C]
-\-h,\ \-\-help\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ print\ this\ help\ text\ and\ exit
-\-\-version\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ print\ program\ version\ and\ exit
-\-U,\ \-\-update\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ update\ this\ program\ to\ latest\ version.\ Make\ sure
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ that\ you\ have\ sufficient\ permissions\ (run\ with
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ sudo\ if\ needed)
-\-i,\ \-\-ignore\-errors\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ continue\ on\ download\ errors,\ for\ example\ to\ to
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ skip\ unavailable\ videos\ in\ a\ playlist
-\-\-dump\-user\-agent\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ display\ the\ current\ browser\ identification
-\-\-user\-agent\ UA\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ specify\ a\ custom\ user\ agent
-\-\-referer\ REF\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ specify\ a\ custom\ referer,\ use\ if\ the\ video\ access
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ is\ restricted\ to\ one\ domain
-\-\-list\-extractors\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ List\ all\ supported\ extractors\ and\ the\ URLs\ they
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ would\ handle
-\-\-extractor\-descriptions\ \ \ Output\ descriptions\ of\ all\ supported\ extractors
-\-\-proxy\ URL\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Use\ the\ specified\ HTTP/HTTPS\ proxy
-\-\-no\-check\-certificate\ \ \ \ \ Suppress\ HTTPS\ certificate\ validation.
-\-\-cache\-dir\ None\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Location\ in\ the\ filesystem\ where\ youtube\-dl\ can
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ store\ downloaded\ information\ permanently.\ By
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ default\ $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube\-dl\ or\ ~/.cache
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ /youtube\-dl\ .
-\-\-no\-cache\-dir\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Disable\ filesystem\ caching
-\f[]
-.fi
+.TP
+.B \-h, \-\-help
+Print this help text and exit
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-version
+Print program version and exit
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-U, \-\-update
+Update this program to latest version.
+Make sure that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-i, \-\-ignore\-errors
+Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a
+playlist
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-abort\-on\-error
+Abort downloading of further videos (in the playlist or the command
+line) if an error occurs
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-dump\-user\-agent
+Display the current browser identification
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-list\-extractors
+List all supported extractors
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-extractor\-descriptions
+Output descriptions of all supported extractors
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-force\-generic\-extractor
+Force extraction to use the generic extractor
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-default\-search \f[I]PREFIX\f[]
+Use this prefix for unqualified URLs.
+For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for
+youtube\-dl "large apple".
+Use the value "auto" to let youtube\-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
+warning when guessing).
+"error" just throws an error.
+The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error
+if this is not possible instead of searching.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-ignore\-config
+Do not read configuration files.
+When given in the global configuration file /etc/youtube\-dl.conf: Do
+not read the user configuration in ~/.config/youtube\- dl/config
+(%APPDATA%/youtube\-dl/config.txt on Windows)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-config\-location \f[I]PATH\f[]
+Location of the configuration file; either the path to the config or its
+containing directory.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-flat\-playlist
+Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-mark\-watched
+Mark videos watched (YouTube only)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-mark\-watched
+Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-color
+Do not emit color codes in output
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Network Options:
+.TP
+.B \-\-proxy \f[I]URL\f[]
+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
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-socket\-timeout \f[I]SECONDS\f[]
+Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-source\-address \f[I]IP\f[]
+Client\-side IP address to bind to
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-4, \-\-force\-ipv4
+Make all connections via IPv4
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-6, \-\-force\-ipv6
+Make all connections via IPv6
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Geo Restriction:
+.TP
+.B \-\-geo\-verification\-proxy \f[I]URL\f[]
+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 actual downloading.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-geo\-bypass
+Bypass geographic restriction via faking X\-Forwarded\-For HTTP header
+(experimental)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-geo\-bypass
+Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X\-Forwarded\-For HTTP
+header (experimental)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-geo\-bypass\-country \f[I]CODE\f[]
+Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two\-letter
+ISO 3166\-2 country code (experimental)
+.RS
+.RE
.SS Video Selection:
-.IP
-.nf
-\f[C]
-\-\-playlist\-start\ NUMBER\ \ \ \ playlist\ video\ to\ start\ at\ (default\ is\ 1)
-\-\-playlist\-end\ NUMBER\ \ \ \ \ \ playlist\ video\ to\ end\ at\ (default\ is\ last)
-\-\-match\-title\ REGEX\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ download\ only\ matching\ titles\ (regex\ or\ caseless
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ sub\-string)
-\-\-reject\-title\ REGEX\ \ \ \ \ \ \ skip\ download\ for\ matching\ titles\ (regex\ or
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ caseless\ sub\-string)
-\-\-max\-downloads\ NUMBER\ \ \ \ \ Abort\ after\ downloading\ NUMBER\ files
-\-\-min\-filesize\ SIZE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Do\ not\ download\ any\ videos\ smaller\ than\ SIZE
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (e.g.\ 50k\ or\ 44.6m)
-\-\-max\-filesize\ SIZE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Do\ not\ download\ any\ videos\ larger\ than\ SIZE\ (e.g.
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 50k\ or\ 44.6m)
-\-\-date\ DATE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ download\ only\ videos\ uploaded\ in\ this\ date
-\-\-datebefore\ DATE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ download\ only\ videos\ uploaded\ before\ this\ date
-\-\-dateafter\ DATE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ download\ only\ videos\ uploaded\ after\ this\ date
-\-\-no\-playlist\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ download\ only\ the\ currently\ playing\ video
-\f[]
-.fi
+.TP
+.B \-\-playlist\-start \f[I]NUMBER\f[]
+Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-playlist\-end \f[I]NUMBER\f[]
+Playlist video to end at (default is last)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-playlist\-items \f[I]ITEM_SPEC\f[]
+Playlist video items to download.
+Specify indices of the videos in the playlist separated by commas like:
+"\-\-playlist\-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1,
+2, 5, 8 in the playlist.
+You can specify range: "\-\-playlist\-items 1\-3,7,10\-13", it will
+download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-match\-title \f[I]REGEX\f[]
+Download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub\-string)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-reject\-title \f[I]REGEX\f[]
+Skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub\-string)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-max\-downloads \f[I]NUMBER\f[]
+Abort after downloading NUMBER files
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-min\-filesize \f[I]SIZE\f[]
+Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE (e.g.
+50k or 44.6m)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-max\-filesize \f[I]SIZE\f[]
+Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g.
+50k or 44.6m)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-date \f[I]DATE\f[]
+Download only videos uploaded in this date
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-datebefore \f[I]DATE\f[]
+Download only videos uploaded on or before this date (i.e.
+inclusive)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-dateafter \f[I]DATE\f[]
+Download only videos uploaded on or after this date (i.e.
+inclusive)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-min\-views \f[I]COUNT\f[]
+Do not download any videos with less than COUNT views
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-max\-views \f[I]COUNT\f[]
+Do not download any videos with more than COUNT views
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-match\-filter \f[I]FILTER\f[]
+Generic video filter.
+Specify any key (see the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a list of available keys)
+to match if the key is present, !key to check if the key is not present,
+key > NUMBER (like "comment_count > 12", also works with >=, <, <=, !=,
+=) to compare against a number, key = \[aq]LITERAL\[aq] (like "uploader
+= \[aq]Mike Smith\[aq]", also works with !=) to match against a string
+literal and & to require multiple matches.
+Values which are not known are excluded unless you put a question mark
+(?) after the operator.
+For example, to only match videos that have been liked more than 100
+times and disliked less than 50 times (or the dislike functionality is
+not available at the given service), but who also have a description,
+use \-\-match\-filter "like_count > 100 & dislike_count <?
+50 & description" .
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-playlist
+Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-yes\-playlist
+Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-age\-limit \f[I]YEARS\f[]
+Download only videos suitable for the given age
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-download\-archive \f[I]FILE\f[]
+Download only videos not listed in the archive file.
+Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-include\-ads
+Download advertisements as well (experimental)
+.RS
+.RE
.SS Download Options:
-.IP
-.nf
-\f[C]
-\-r,\ \-\-rate\-limit\ LIMIT\ \ \ \ \ maximum\ download\ rate\ (e.g.\ 50k\ or\ 44.6m)
-\-R,\ \-\-retries\ RETRIES\ \ \ \ \ \ number\ of\ retries\ (default\ is\ 10)
-\-\-buffer\-size\ SIZE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ size\ of\ download\ buffer\ (e.g.\ 1024\ or\ 16k)
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (default\ is\ 1024)
-\-\-no\-resize\-buffer\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ automatically\ adjust\ the\ buffer\ size.\ By
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ default,\ the\ buffer\ size\ is\ automatically\ resized
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ from\ an\ initial\ value\ of\ SIZE.
-\f[]
-.fi
+.TP
+.B \-r, \-\-limit\-rate \f[I]RATE\f[]
+Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g.
+50K or 4.2M)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-R, \-\-retries \f[I]RETRIES\f[]
+Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite".
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-fragment\-retries \f[I]RETRIES\f[]
+Number of retries for a fragment (default is 10), or "infinite" (DASH,
+hlsnative and ISM)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-skip\-unavailable\-fragments
+Skip unavailable fragments (DASH, hlsnative and ISM)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-abort\-on\-unavailable\-fragment
+Abort downloading when some fragment is not available
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-keep\-fragments
+Keep downloaded fragments on disk after downloading is finished;
+fragments are erased by default
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-buffer\-size \f[I]SIZE\f[]
+Size of download buffer (e.g.
+1024 or 16K) (default is 1024)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-resize\-buffer
+Do not automatically adjust the buffer size.
+By default, the buffer size is automatically resized from an initial
+value of SIZE.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-playlist\-reverse
+Download playlist videos in reverse order
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-playlist\-random
+Download playlist videos in random order
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-xattr\-set\-filesize
+Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size (experimental)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-hls\-prefer\-native
+Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-hls\-prefer\-ffmpeg
+Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS downloader
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-hls\-use\-mpegts
+Use the mpegts container for HLS videos, allowing to play the video
+while downloading (some players may not be able to play it)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-external\-downloader \f[I]COMMAND\f[]
+Use the specified external downloader.
+Currently supports aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-external\-downloader\-args \f[I]ARGS\f[]
+Give these arguments to the external downloader
+.RS
+.RE
.SS Filesystem Options:
-.IP
-.nf
-\f[C]
-\-t,\ \-\-title\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ use\ title\ in\ file\ name\ (default)
-\-\-id\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ use\ only\ video\ ID\ in\ file\ name
-\-l,\ \-\-literal\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ [deprecated]\ alias\ of\ \-\-title
-\-A,\ \-\-auto\-number\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ number\ downloaded\ files\ starting\ from\ 00000
-\-o,\ \-\-output\ TEMPLATE\ \ \ \ \ \ output\ filename\ template.\ Use\ %(title)s\ to\ get
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ the\ title,\ %(uploader)s\ for\ the\ uploader\ name,
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ %(uploader_id)s\ for\ the\ uploader\ nickname\ if
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ different,\ %(autonumber)s\ to\ get\ an\ automatically
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ incremented\ number,\ %(ext)s\ for\ the\ filename
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ extension,\ %(upload_date)s\ for\ the\ upload\ date
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (YYYYMMDD),\ %(extractor)s\ for\ the\ provider
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (youtube,\ metacafe,\ etc),\ %(id)s\ for\ the\ video\ id
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ,\ %(playlist)s\ for\ the\ playlist\ the\ video\ is\ in,
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ %(playlist_index)s\ for\ the\ position\ in\ the
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ playlist\ and\ %%\ for\ a\ literal\ percent.\ Use\ \-\ to
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ output\ to\ stdout.\ Can\ also\ be\ used\ to\ download\ to
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ a\ different\ directory,\ for\ example\ with\ \-o\ \[aq]/my/d
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ownloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ .
-\-\-autonumber\-size\ NUMBER\ \ \ Specifies\ the\ number\ of\ digits\ in\ %(autonumber)s
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ when\ it\ is\ present\ in\ output\ filename\ template\ or
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \-\-autonumber\ option\ is\ given
-\-\-restrict\-filenames\ \ \ \ \ \ \ Restrict\ filenames\ to\ only\ ASCII\ characters,\ and
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ avoid\ "&"\ and\ spaces\ in\ filenames
-\-a,\ \-\-batch\-file\ FILE\ \ \ \ \ \ file\ containing\ URLs\ to\ download\ (\[aq]\-\[aq]\ for\ stdin)
-\-w,\ \-\-no\-overwrites\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ overwrite\ files
-\-c,\ \-\-continue\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ resume\ partially\ downloaded\ files
-\-\-no\-continue\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ resume\ partially\ downloaded\ files\ (restart
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ from\ beginning)
-\-\-cookies\ FILE\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ file\ to\ read\ cookies\ from\ and\ dump\ cookie\ jar\ in
-\-\-no\-part\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ use\ .part\ files
-\-\-no\-mtime\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ use\ the\ Last\-modified\ header\ to\ set\ the
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ file\ modification\ time
-\-\-write\-description\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ write\ video\ description\ to\ a\ .description\ file
-\-\-write\-info\-json\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ write\ video\ metadata\ to\ a\ .info.json\ file
-\-\-write\-thumbnail\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ write\ thumbnail\ image\ to\ disk
-\f[]
-.fi
+.TP
+.B \-a, \-\-batch\-file \f[I]FILE\f[]
+File containing URLs to download (\[aq]\-\[aq] for stdin)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-id
+Use only video ID in file name
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-o, \-\-output \f[I]TEMPLATE\f[]
+Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for all the info
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-autonumber\-start \f[I]NUMBER\f[]
+Specify the start value for %(autonumber)s (default is 1)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-restrict\-filenames
+Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
+filenames
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-w, \-\-no\-overwrites
+Do not overwrite files
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-c, \-\-continue
+Force resume of partially downloaded files.
+By default, youtube\-dl will resume downloads if possible.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-continue
+Do not resume partially downloaded files (restart from beginning)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-part
+Do not use .part files \- write directly into output file
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-mtime
+Do not use the Last\-modified header to set the file modification time
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-description
+Write video description to a .description file
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-info\-json
+Write video metadata to a .info.json file
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-annotations
+Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-load\-info\-json \f[I]FILE\f[]
+JSON file containing the video information (created with the
+"\-\-write\-info\-json" option)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-cookies \f[I]FILE\f[]
+File to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-cache\-dir \f[I]DIR\f[]
+Location in the filesystem where youtube\-dl can store some downloaded
+information permanently.
+By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube\-dl or ~/.cache/youtube\-dl .
+At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated
+signatures) are cached, but that may change.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-cache\-dir
+Disable filesystem caching
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-rm\-cache\-dir
+Delete all filesystem cache files
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Thumbnail images:
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-thumbnail
+Write thumbnail image to disk
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-all\-thumbnails
+Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-list\-thumbnails
+Simulate and list all available thumbnail formats
+.RS
+.RE
.SS Verbosity / Simulation Options:
+.TP
+.B \-q, \-\-quiet
+Activate quiet mode
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-warnings
+Ignore warnings
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-s, \-\-simulate
+Do not download the video and do not write anything to disk
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-skip\-download
+Do not download the video
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-g, \-\-get\-url
+Simulate, quiet but print URL
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-e, \-\-get\-title
+Simulate, quiet but print title
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-get\-id
+Simulate, quiet but print id
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-get\-thumbnail
+Simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-get\-description
+Simulate, quiet but print video description
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-get\-duration
+Simulate, quiet but print video length
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-get\-filename
+Simulate, quiet but print output filename
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-get\-format
+Simulate, quiet but print output format
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-j, \-\-dump\-json
+Simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
+See the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description of available keys.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-J, \-\-dump\-single\-json
+Simulate, quiet but print JSON information for each command\-line
+argument.
+If the URL refers to a playlist, dump the whole playlist information in
+a single line.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-print\-json
+Be quiet and print the video information as JSON (video is still being
+downloaded).
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-newline
+Output progress bar as new lines
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-progress
+Do not print progress bar
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-console\-title
+Display progress in console titlebar
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-v, \-\-verbose
+Print various debugging information
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-dump\-pages
+Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very
+verbose)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-pages
+Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to
+debug problems
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-print\-traffic
+Display sent and read HTTP traffic
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-C, \-\-call\-home
+Contact the youtube\-dl server for debugging
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-call\-home
+Do NOT contact the youtube\-dl server for debugging
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Workarounds:
+.TP
+.B \-\-encoding \f[I]ENCODING\f[]
+Force the specified encoding (experimental)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-check\-certificate
+Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-prefer\-insecure
+Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video.
+(Currently supported only for YouTube)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-user\-agent \f[I]UA\f[]
+Specify a custom user agent
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-referer \f[I]URL\f[]
+Specify a custom referer, use if the video access is restricted to one
+domain
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-add\-header \f[I]FIELD:VALUE\f[]
+Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon
+\[aq]:\[aq].
+You can use this option multiple times
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-bidi\-workaround
+Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support.
+Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-sleep\-interval \f[I]SECONDS\f[]
+Number of seconds to sleep before each download when used alone or a
+lower bound of a range for randomized sleep before each download
+(minimum possible number of seconds to sleep) when used along with
+\-\-max\-sleep\-interval.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-max\-sleep\-interval \f[I]SECONDS\f[]
+Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep before each download
+(maximum possible number of seconds to sleep).
+Must only be used along with \-\-min\-sleep\-interval.
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Video Format Options:
+.TP
+.B \-f, \-\-format \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+Video format code, see the "FORMAT SELECTION" for all the info
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-all\-formats
+Download all available video formats
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-prefer\-free\-formats
+Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-F, \-\-list\-formats
+List all available formats of requested videos
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-youtube\-skip\-dash\-manifest
+Do not download the DASH manifests and related data on YouTube videos
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-merge\-output\-format \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+If a merge is required (e.g.
+bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format.
+One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv.
+Ignored if no merge is required
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Subtitle Options:
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-sub
+Write subtitle file
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-write\-auto\-sub
+Write automatically generated subtitle file (YouTube only)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-all\-subs
+Download all the available subtitles of the video
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-list\-subs
+List all available subtitles for the video
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-sub\-format \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or
+"ass/srt/best"
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-sub\-lang \f[I]LANGS\f[]
+Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas,
+use \-\-list\- subs for available language tags
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Authentication Options:
+.TP
+.B \-u, \-\-username \f[I]USERNAME\f[]
+Login with this account ID
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-p, \-\-password \f[I]PASSWORD\f[]
+Account password.
+If this option is left out, youtube\-dl will ask interactively.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-2, \-\-twofactor \f[I]TWOFACTOR\f[]
+Two\-factor authentication code
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-n, \-\-netrc
+Use .netrc authentication data
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-video\-password \f[I]PASSWORD\f[]
+Video password (vimeo, smotri, youku)
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Adobe Pass Options:
+.TP
+.B \-\-ap\-mso \f[I]MSO\f[]
+Adobe Pass multiple\-system operator (TV provider) identifier, use
+\-\-ap\-list\-mso for a list of available MSOs
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-ap\-username \f[I]USERNAME\f[]
+Multiple\-system operator account login
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-ap\-password \f[I]PASSWORD\f[]
+Multiple\-system operator account password.
+If this option is left out, youtube\-dl will ask interactively.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-ap\-list\-mso
+List all supported multiple\-system operators
+.RS
+.RE
+.SS Post\-processing Options:
+.TP
+.B \-x, \-\-extract\-audio
+Convert video files to audio\-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and
+ffprobe or avprobe)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-audio\-format \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus",
+"vorbis", or "wav"; "best" by default; No effect without \-x
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-audio\-quality \f[I]QUALITY\f[]
+Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert a value between 0 (better)
+and 9 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-recode\-video \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported:
+mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv|avi)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-postprocessor\-args \f[I]ARGS\f[]
+Give these arguments to the postprocessor
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-k, \-\-keep\-video
+Keep the video file on disk after the post\- processing; the video is
+erased by default
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-no\-post\-overwrites
+Do not overwrite post\-processed files; the post\-processed files are
+overwritten by default
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-embed\-subs
+Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-embed\-thumbnail
+Embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-add\-metadata
+Write metadata to the video file
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-metadata\-from\-title \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+Parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title.
+The format syntax is the same as \-\-output.
+Regular expression with named capture groups may also be used.
+The parsed parameters replace existing values.
+Example: \-\-metadata\-from\- title "%(artist)s \- %(title)s" matches a
+title like "Coldplay \- Paradise".
+Example (regex): \-\-metadata\-from\-title "(?P.+?) \- (?P
+.RS
+\&.+)"
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-xattrs
+Write metadata to the video file\[aq]s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg
+standards)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-fixup \f[I]POLICY\f[]
+Automatically correct known faults of the file.
+One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), detect_or_warn
+(the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-prefer\-avconv
+Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the postprocessors (default)
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-prefer\-ffmpeg
+Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the postprocessors
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-ffmpeg\-location \f[I]PATH\f[]
+Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary; either the path to the binary or
+its containing directory.
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-exec \f[I]CMD\f[]
+Execute a command on the file after downloading, similar to find\[aq]s
+\-exec syntax.
+Example: \-\-exec \[aq]adb push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}\[aq]
+.RS
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-\-convert\-subs \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported:
+srt|ass|vtt|lrc)
+.RS
+.RE
+.SH CONFIGURATION
+.PP
+You can configure youtube\-dl by placing any supported command line
+option to a configuration file.
+On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at
+\f[C]/etc/youtube\-dl.conf\f[] and the user wide configuration file at
+\f[C]~/.config/youtube\-dl/config\f[].
+On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are
+\f[C]%APPDATA%\\youtube\-dl\\config.txt\f[] or
+\f[C]C:\\Users\\<user\ name>\\youtube\-dl.conf\f[].
+Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to
+create it yourself.
+.PP
+For example, with the following configuration file youtube\-dl will
+always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all
+videos under \f[C]Movies\f[] directory in your home directory:
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-\-q,\ \-\-quiet\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ activates\ quiet\ mode
-\-s,\ \-\-simulate\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ download\ the\ video\ and\ do\ not\ write
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ anything\ to\ disk
-\-\-skip\-download\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ download\ the\ video
-\-g,\ \-\-get\-url\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ URL
-\-e,\ \-\-get\-title\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ title
-\-\-get\-id\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ id
-\-\-get\-thumbnail\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ thumbnail\ URL
-\-\-get\-description\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ video\ description
-\-\-get\-filename\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ output\ filename
-\-\-get\-format\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ simulate,\ quiet\ but\ print\ output\ format
-\-\-newline\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ output\ progress\ bar\ as\ new\ lines
-\-\-no\-progress\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ print\ progress\ bar
-\-\-console\-title\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ display\ progress\ in\ console\ titlebar
-\-v,\ \-\-verbose\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ print\ various\ debugging\ information
-\-\-dump\-intermediate\-pages\ \ print\ downloaded\ pages\ to\ debug\ problems(very
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ verbose)
+#\ Lines\ starting\ with\ #\ are\ comments
+
+#\ Always\ extract\ audio
+\-x
+
+#\ Do\ not\ copy\ the\ mtime
+\-\-no\-mtime
+
+#\ Use\ this\ proxy
+\-\-proxy\ 127.0.0.1:3128
+
+#\ Save\ all\ videos\ under\ Movies\ directory\ in\ your\ home\ directory
+\-o\ ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s
\f[]
.fi
-.SS Video Format Options:
+.PP
+Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka
+switches used in regular command line calls thus there \f[B]must be no
+whitespace\f[] after \f[C]\-\f[] or \f[C]\-\-\f[], e.g.
+\f[C]\-o\f[] or \f[C]\-\-proxy\f[] but not \f[C]\-\ o\f[] or
+\f[C]\-\-\ proxy\f[].
+.PP
+You can use \f[C]\-\-ignore\-config\f[] if you want to disable the
+configuration file for a particular youtube\-dl run.
+.PP
+You can also use \f[C]\-\-config\-location\f[] if you want to use custom
+configuration file for a particular youtube\-dl run.
+.SS Authentication with \f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file
+.PP
+You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for
+extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password
+with \f[C]\-\-username\f[] and \f[C]\-\-password\f[]) in order not to
+pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube\-dl
+execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command
+history.
+You can achieve this using a \f[C]\&.netrc\f[]
+file (https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor
+basis.
+For that you will need to create a \f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file in your
+\f[C]$HOME\f[] and restrict permissions to read/write by only you:
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-\-f,\ \-\-format\ FORMAT\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ video\ format\ code,\ specifiy\ the\ order\ of
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ preference\ using\ slashes:\ "\-f\ 22/17/18".\ "\-f\ mp4"
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ and\ "\-f\ flv"\ are\ also\ supported
-\-\-all\-formats\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ download\ all\ available\ video\ formats
-\-\-prefer\-free\-formats\ \ \ \ \ \ prefer\ free\ video\ formats\ unless\ a\ specific\ one
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ is\ requested
-\-\-max\-quality\ FORMAT\ \ \ \ \ \ \ highest\ quality\ format\ to\ download
-\-F,\ \-\-list\-formats\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ list\ all\ available\ formats\ (currently\ youtube
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ only)
+touch\ $HOME/.netrc
+chmod\ a\-rwx,u+rw\ $HOME/.netrc
\f[]
.fi
-.SS Subtitle Options:
+.PP
+After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following
+format, where \f[I]extractor\f[] is the name of the extractor in
+lowercase:
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-\-\-write\-sub\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ write\ subtitle\ file
-\-\-write\-auto\-sub\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ write\ automatic\ subtitle\ file\ (youtube\ only)
-\-\-all\-subs\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ downloads\ all\ the\ available\ subtitles\ of\ the
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ video
-\-\-list\-subs\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ lists\ all\ available\ subtitles\ for\ the\ video
-\-\-sub\-format\ FORMAT\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ subtitle\ format\ (default=srt)\ ([sbv/vtt]\ youtube
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ only)
-\-\-sub\-lang\ LANGS\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ languages\ of\ the\ subtitles\ to\ download\ (optional)
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ separated\ by\ commas,\ use\ IETF\ language\ tags\ like
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]en,pt\[aq]
+machine\ <extractor>\ login\ <login>\ password\ <password>
\f[]
.fi
-.SS Authentication Options:
+.PP
+For example:
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-\-u,\ \-\-username\ USERNAME\ \ \ \ account\ username
-\-p,\ \-\-password\ PASSWORD\ \ \ \ account\ password
-\-n,\ \-\-netrc\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ use\ .netrc\ authentication\ data
-\-\-video\-password\ PASSWORD\ \ video\ password\ (vimeo\ only)
+machine\ youtube\ login\ myaccount\@gmail.com\ password\ my_youtube_password
+machine\ twitch\ login\ my_twitch_account_name\ password\ my_twitch_password
\f[]
.fi
-.SS Post\-processing Options:
+.PP
+To activate authentication with the \f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file you should
+pass \f[C]\-\-netrc\f[] to youtube\-dl or place it in the configuration
+file (#configuration).
+.PP
+On Windows you may also need to setup the \f[C]%HOME%\f[] environment
+variable manually.
+For example:
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-\-x,\ \-\-extract\-audio\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ convert\ video\ files\ to\ audio\-only\ files\ (requires
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ffmpeg\ or\ avconv\ and\ ffprobe\ or\ avprobe)
-\-\-audio\-format\ FORMAT\ \ \ \ \ \ "best",\ "aac",\ "vorbis",\ "mp3",\ "m4a",\ "opus",\ or
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ "wav";\ best\ by\ default
-\-\-audio\-quality\ QUALITY\ \ \ \ ffmpeg/avconv\ audio\ quality\ specification,\ insert
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ a\ value\ between\ 0\ (better)\ and\ 9\ (worse)\ for\ VBR
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ or\ a\ specific\ bitrate\ like\ 128K\ (default\ 5)
-\-\-recode\-video\ FORMAT\ \ \ \ \ \ Encode\ the\ video\ to\ another\ format\ if\ necessary
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (currently\ supported:\ mp4|flv|ogg|webm)
-\-k,\ \-\-keep\-video\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ keeps\ the\ video\ file\ on\ disk\ after\ the\ post\-
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ processing;\ the\ video\ is\ erased\ by\ default
-\-\-no\-post\-overwrites\ \ \ \ \ \ \ do\ not\ overwrite\ post\-processed\ files;\ the\ post\-
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ processed\ files\ are\ overwritten\ by\ default
-\-\-embed\-subs\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ embed\ subtitles\ in\ the\ video\ (only\ for\ mp4
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ videos)
+set\ HOME=%USERPROFILE%
\f[]
.fi
-.SH CONFIGURATION
-.PP
-You can configure youtube\-dl by placing default arguments (such as
-\f[C]\-\-extract\-audio\ \-\-no\-mtime\f[] to always extract the audio
-and not copy the mtime) into \f[C]/etc/youtube\-dl.conf\f[] and/or
-\f[C]~/.config/youtube\-dl.conf\f[].
.SH OUTPUT TEMPLATE
.PP
The \f[C]\-o\f[] option allows users to indicate a template for the
output file names.
+.PP
+\f[B]tl;dr:\f[] navigate me to examples (#output-template-examples).
+.PP
The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a
single file, like in
-\f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-o\ funny_video.flv\ "http://some/video"\f[].
+\f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-o\ funny_video.flv\ "https://some/video"\f[].
However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when
downloading each video.
-The special sequences have the format \f[C]%(NAME)s\f[].
-To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis,
-followed by a lowercase S.
-Allowed names are:
+The special sequences may be formatted according to python string
+formatting
+operations (https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting).
+For example, \f[C]%(NAME)s\f[] or \f[C]%(NAME)05d\f[].
+To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses,
+followed by a formatting operations.
+Allowed names along with sequence type are:
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]id\f[] (string): Video identifier
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]title\f[] (string): Video title
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]url\f[] (string): Video URL
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]ext\f[] (string): Video filename extension
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]alt_title\f[] (string): A secondary title of the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]display_id\f[] (string): An alternative identifier for the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]uploader\f[] (string): Full name of the video uploader
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]license\f[] (string): License name the video is licensed under
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]creator\f[] (string): The creator of the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]release_date\f[] (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was
+released
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]timestamp\f[] (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video
+became available
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]upload_date\f[] (string): Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]uploader_id\f[] (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]location\f[] (string): Physical location where the video was filmed
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]duration\f[] (numeric): Length of the video in seconds
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]view_count\f[] (numeric): How many users have watched the video on
+the platform
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]like_count\f[] (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]dislike_count\f[] (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the
+video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]repost_count\f[] (numeric): Number of reposts of the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]average_rating\f[] (numeric): Average rating give by users, the
+scale used depends on the webpage
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]comment_count\f[] (numeric): Number of comments on the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]age_limit\f[] (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]is_live\f[] (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a
+fixed\-length video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]start_time\f[] (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction
+should start, as specified in the URL
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]end_time\f[] (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction
+should end, as specified in the URL
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]format\f[] (string): A human\-readable description of the format
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]format_id\f[] (string): Format code specified by
+\f[C]\-\-format\f[]
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]format_note\f[] (string): Additional info about the format
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]width\f[] (numeric): Width of the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]height\f[] (numeric): Height of the video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]resolution\f[] (string): Textual description of width and height
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]tbr\f[] (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]abr\f[] (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]acodec\f[] (string): Name of the audio codec in use
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]asr\f[] (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]vbr\f[] (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]fps\f[] (numeric): Frame rate
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]vcodec\f[] (string): Name of the video codec in use
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]container\f[] (string): Name of the container format
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]filesize\f[] (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]filesize_approx\f[] (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]protocol\f[] (string): The protocol that will be used for the
+actual download
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]extractor\f[] (string): Name of the extractor
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]extractor_key\f[] (string): Key name of the extractor
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]epoch\f[] (numeric): Unix epoch when creating the file
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]autonumber\f[] (numeric): Five\-digit number that will be increased
+with each download, starting at zero
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]playlist\f[] (string): Name or id of the playlist that contains the
+video
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]playlist_index\f[] (numeric): Index of the video in the playlist
+padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]playlist_id\f[] (string): Playlist identifier
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]playlist_title\f[] (string): Playlist title
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]playlist_uploader\f[] (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]playlist_uploader_id\f[] (string): Nickname or id of the playlist
+uploader
+.PP
+Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]chapter\f[] (string): Name or title of the chapter the video
+belongs to
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]chapter_number\f[] (numeric): Number of the chapter the video
+belongs to
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]chapter_id\f[] (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
+.PP
+Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]id\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.
+\f[C]series\f[] (string): Title of the series or programme the video
+episode belongs to
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]url\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.
+\f[C]season\f[] (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs
+to
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]uploader\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the
-person who uploaded the video.
+\f[C]season_number\f[] (numeric): Number of the season the video episode
+belongs to
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]upload_date\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date
-in YYYYMMDD format.
+\f[C]season_id\f[] (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs
+to
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]title\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the video title.
+\f[C]episode\f[] (string): Title of the video episode
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]ext\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension
-(like flv or mp4).
+\f[C]episode_number\f[] (numeric): Number of the video episode within a
+season
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]epoch\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when
-creating the file.
+\f[C]episode_id\f[] (string): Id of the video episode
+.PP
+Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]track\f[] (string): Title of the track
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]track_number\f[] (numeric): Number of the track within an album or
+a disc
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]track_id\f[] (string): Id of the track
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]artist\f[] (string): Artist(s) of the track
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]genre\f[] (string): Genre(s) of the track
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]album\f[] (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]autonumber\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by a five\-digit
-number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero.
+\f[C]album_type\f[] (string): Type of the album
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]playlist\f[]: The name or the id of the playlist that contains the
-video.
+\f[C]album_artist\f[] (string): List of all artists appeared on the
+album
.IP \[bu] 2
-\f[C]playlist_index\f[]: The index of the video in the playlist, a
-five\-digit number.
+\f[C]disc_number\f[] (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical
+medium the track belongs to
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]release_year\f[] (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
+.PP
+Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will
+be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name.
+Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since
+they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor.
+Such sequences will be replaced with \f[C]NA\f[].
+.PP
+For example for \f[C]\-o\ %(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s\f[] and an mp4 video
+with title \f[C]youtube\-dl\ test\ video\f[] and id
+\f[C]BaW_jenozKcj\f[], this will result in a
+\f[C]youtube\-dl\ test\ video\-BaW_jenozKcj.mp4\f[] file created in the
+current directory.
+.PP
+For numeric sequences you can use numeric related formatting, for
+example, \f[C]%(view_count)05d\f[] will result in a string with view
+count padded with zeros up to 5 characters, like in \f[C]00042\f[].
+.PP
+Output templates can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g.
+\f[C]\-o\ \[aq]%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s\ \-\ %(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\f[]
+which will result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding
+to this path template.
+Any missing directory will be automatically created for you.
+.PP
+To use percent literals in an output template use \f[C]%%\f[].
+To output to stdout use \f[C]\-o\ \-\f[].
.PP
The current default template is \f[C]%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s\f[].
.PP
system or the filename through an 8bit\-unsafe channel.
In these cases, add the \f[C]\-\-restrict\-filenames\f[] flag to get a
shorter title:
+.SS Output template and Windows batch files
+.PP
+If you are using an output template inside a Windows batch file then you
+must escape plain percent characters (\f[C]%\f[]) by doubling, so that
+\f[C]\-o\ "%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s"\f[] should become
+\f[C]\-o\ "%%(title)s\-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s"\f[].
+However you should not touch \f[C]%\f[]\[aq]s that are not plain
+characters, e.g.
+environment variables for expansion should stay intact:
+\f[C]\-o\ "C:\\%HOMEPATH%\\Desktop\\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s"\f[].
+.SS Output template examples
+.PP
+Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of
+single.
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ "%(title)s.%(ext)s"\ BaW_jenozKc
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ \[aq]%(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ BaW_jenozKc
youtube\-dl\ test\ video\ \[aq]\[aq]_Ƥāš.mp4\ \ \ \ #\ All\ kinds\ of\ weird\ characters
-$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ "%(title)s.%(ext)s"\ BaW_jenozKc\ \-\-restrict\-filenames
+
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ \[aq]%(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ BaW_jenozKc\ \-\-restrict\-filenames
youtube\-dl_test_video_.mp4\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ A\ simple\ file\ name
+
+#\ Download\ YouTube\ playlist\ videos\ in\ separate\ directory\ indexed\ by\ video\ order\ in\ a\ playlist
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \[aq]%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s\ \-\ %(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
+
+#\ Download\ all\ playlists\ of\ YouTube\ channel/user\ keeping\ each\ playlist\ in\ separate\ directory:
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \[aq]%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s\ \-\ %(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists
+
+#\ Download\ Udemy\ course\ keeping\ each\ chapter\ in\ separate\ directory\ under\ MyVideos\ directory\ in\ your\ home
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-u\ user\ \-p\ password\ \-o\ \[aq]~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s\ \-\ %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ https://www.udemy.com/java\-tutorial/
+
+#\ Download\ entire\ series\ season\ keeping\ each\ series\ and\ each\ season\ in\ separate\ directory\ under\ C:/MyVideos
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ "C:/MyVideos/%(series)s/%(season_number)s\ \-\ %(season)s/%(episode_number)s\ \-\ %(episode)s.%(ext)s"\ https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617
+
+#\ Stream\ the\ video\ being\ downloaded\ to\ stdout
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \-\ BaW_jenozKc
+\f[]
+.fi
+.SH FORMAT SELECTION
+.PP
+By default youtube\-dl tries to download the best available quality,
+i.e.
+if you want the best quality you \f[B]don\[aq]t need\f[] to pass any
+special options, youtube\-dl will guess it for you by \f[B]default\f[].
+.PP
+But sometimes you may want to download in a different format, for
+example when you are on a slow or intermittent connection.
+The key mechanism for achieving this is so\-called \f[I]format
+selection\f[] based on which you can explicitly specify desired format,
+select formats based on some criterion or criteria, setup precedence and
+much more.
+.PP
+The general syntax for format selection is \f[C]\-\-format\ FORMAT\f[]
+or shorter \f[C]\-f\ FORMAT\f[] where \f[C]FORMAT\f[] is a \f[I]selector
+expression\f[], i.e.
+an expression that describes format or formats you would like to
+download.
+.PP
+\f[B]tl;dr:\f[] navigate me to examples (#format-selection-examples).
+.PP
+The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with
+\f[C]\-f\ 22\f[] you can download the format with format code equal to
+22.
+You can get the list of available format codes for particular video
+using \f[C]\-\-list\-formats\f[] or \f[C]\-F\f[].
+Note that these format codes are extractor specific.
+.PP
+You can also use a file extension (currently \f[C]3gp\f[], \f[C]aac\f[],
+\f[C]flv\f[], \f[C]m4a\f[], \f[C]mp3\f[], \f[C]mp4\f[], \f[C]ogg\f[],
+\f[C]wav\f[], \f[C]webm\f[] are supported) to download the best quality
+format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g.
+\f[C]\-f\ webm\f[] will download the best quality format with the
+\f[C]webm\f[] extension served as a single file.
+.PP
+You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:
+\- \f[C]best\f[]: Select the best quality format represented by a single
+file with video and audio.
+\- \f[C]worst\f[]: Select the worst quality format represented by a
+single file with video and audio.
+\- \f[C]bestvideo\f[]: Select the best quality video\-only format (e.g.
+DASH video).
+May not be available.
+\- \f[C]worstvideo\f[]: Select the worst quality video\-only format.
+May not be available.
+\- \f[C]bestaudio\f[]: Select the best quality audio only\-format.
+May not be available.
+\- \f[C]worstaudio\f[]: Select the worst quality audio only\-format.
+May not be available.
+.PP
+For example, to download the worst quality video\-only format you can
+use \f[C]\-f\ worstvideo\f[].
+.PP
+If you want to download multiple videos and they don\[aq]t have the same
+formats available, you can specify the order of preference using
+slashes.
+Note that slash is left\-associative, i.e.
+formats on the left hand side are preferred, for example
+\f[C]\-f\ 22/17/18\f[] will download format 22 if it\[aq]s available,
+otherwise it will download format 17 if it\[aq]s available, otherwise it
+will download format 18 if it\[aq]s available, otherwise it will
+complain that no suitable formats are available for download.
+.PP
+If you want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as
+a separator, e.g.
+\f[C]\-f\ 22,17,18\f[] will download all these three formats, of course
+if they are available.
+Or a more sophisticated example combined with the precedence feature:
+\f[C]\-f\ 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio\f[].
+.PP
+You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in
+brackets, as in \f[C]\-f\ "best[height=720]"\f[] (or
+\f[C]\-f\ "[filesize>10M]"\f[]).
+.PP
+The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons
+\f[C]<\f[], \f[C]<=\f[], \f[C]>\f[], \f[C]>=\f[], \f[C]=\f[] (equals),
+\f[C]!=\f[] (not equals): \- \f[C]filesize\f[]: The number of bytes, if
+known in advance \- \f[C]width\f[]: Width of the video, if known \-
+\f[C]height\f[]: Height of the video, if known \- \f[C]tbr\f[]: Average
+bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s \- \f[C]abr\f[]: Average audio
+bitrate in KBit/s \- \f[C]vbr\f[]: Average video bitrate in KBit/s \-
+\f[C]asr\f[]: Audio sampling rate in Hertz \- \f[C]fps\f[]: Frame rate
+.PP
+Also filtering work for comparisons \f[C]=\f[] (equals), \f[C]!=\f[]
+(not equals), \f[C]^=\f[] (begins with), \f[C]$=\f[] (ends with),
+\f[C]*=\f[] (contains) and following string meta fields: \-
+\f[C]ext\f[]: File extension \- \f[C]acodec\f[]: Name of the audio codec
+in use \- \f[C]vcodec\f[]: Name of the video codec in use \-
+\f[C]container\f[]: Name of the container format \- \f[C]protocol\f[]:
+The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower\-case
+(\f[C]http\f[], \f[C]https\f[], \f[C]rtsp\f[], \f[C]rtmp\f[],
+\f[C]rtmpe\f[], \f[C]mms\f[], \f[C]f4m\f[], \f[C]ism\f[],
+\f[C]http_dash_segments\f[], \f[C]m3u8\f[], or \f[C]m3u8_native\f[]) \-
+\f[C]format_id\f[]: A short description of the format
+.PP
+Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be
+present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular
+extractor, i.e.
+the metadata offered by the video hoster.
+.PP
+Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a
+question mark (\f[C]?\f[]) after the operator.
+You can combine format filters, so
+\f[C]\-f\ "[height\ <=?\ 720][tbr>500]"\f[] selects up to 720p videos
+(or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500
+KBit/s.
+.PP
+You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file
+using \f[C]\-f\ <video\-format>+<audio\-format>\f[] (requires ffmpeg or
+avconv installed), for example \f[C]\-f\ bestvideo+bestaudio\f[] will
+download the best video\-only format, the best audio\-only format and
+mux them together with ffmpeg/avconv.
+.PP
+Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if
+you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower
+than 480 you can use \f[C]\-f\ \[aq](mp4,webm)[height<480]\[aq]\f[].
+.PP
+Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26, youtube\-dl uses
+\f[C]\-f\ bestvideo+bestaudio/best\f[] as the default format selection
+(see #5447 (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5447),
+#5456 (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5456)).
+If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading
+\f[C]bestvideo\f[] and \f[C]bestaudio\f[] separately and muxing them
+together into a single file giving the best overall quality available.
+Otherwise it falls back to \f[C]best\f[] and results in downloading the
+best available quality served as a single file.
+\f[C]best\f[] is also needed for videos that don\[aq]t come from YouTube
+because they don\[aq]t provide the audio and video in two different
+files.
+If you want to only download some DASH formats (for example if you are
+not interested in getting videos with a resolution higher than 1080p),
+you can add \f[C]\-f\ bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best\f[] to
+your configuration file.
+Note that if you use youtube\-dl to stream to \f[C]stdout\f[] (and most
+likely to pipe it to your media player then), i.e.
+you explicitly specify output template as \f[C]\-o\ \-\f[], youtube\-dl
+still uses \f[C]\-f\ best\f[] format selection in order to start content
+delivery immediately to your player and not to wait until
+\f[C]bestvideo\f[] and \f[C]bestaudio\f[] are downloaded and muxed.
+.PP
+If you want to preserve the old format selection behavior (prior to
+youtube\-dl 2015.04.26), i.e.
+you want to download the best available quality media served as a single
+file, you should explicitly specify your choice with \f[C]\-f\ best\f[].
+You may want to add it to the configuration file (#configuration) in
+order not to type it every time you run youtube\-dl.
+.SS Format selection examples
+.PP
+Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of
+single.
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+#\ Download\ best\ mp4\ format\ available\ or\ any\ other\ best\ if\ no\ mp4\ available
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best\[aq]
+
+#\ Download\ best\ format\ available\ but\ not\ better\ that\ 480p
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]\[aq]
+
+#\ Download\ best\ video\ only\ format\ but\ no\ bigger\ than\ 50\ MB
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]best[filesize<50M]\[aq]
+
+#\ Download\ best\ format\ available\ via\ direct\ link\ over\ HTTP/HTTPS\ protocol
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq](bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol^=http]\[aq]
+
+#\ Download\ the\ best\ video\ format\ and\ the\ best\ audio\ format\ without\ merging\ them
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]bestvideo,bestaudio\[aq]\ \-o\ \[aq]%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s\[aq]
\f[]
.fi
+.PP
+Note that in the last example, an output template is recommended as
+bestvideo and bestaudio may have the same file name.
.SH VIDEO SELECTION
.PP
Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options
-\f[C]\-\-date\f[], \f[C]\-\-datebefore\f[] or \f[C]\-\-dateafter\f[],
-they accept dates in two formats:
+\f[C]\-\-date\f[], \f[C]\-\-datebefore\f[] or \f[C]\-\-dateafter\f[].
+They accept dates in two formats:
.IP \[bu] 2
Absolute dates: Dates in the format \f[C]YYYYMMDD\f[].
.IP \[bu] 2
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
-$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-dateafter\ now\-6months\ #will\ only\ download\ the\ videos\ uploaded\ in\ the\ last\ 6\ months
-$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-date\ 19700101\ #will\ only\ download\ the\ videos\ uploaded\ in\ January\ 1,\ 1970
-$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-dateafter\ 20000101\ \-\-datebefore\ 20100101\ #will\ only\ download\ the\ videos\ uploaded\ between\ 2000\ and\ 2010
+#\ Download\ only\ the\ videos\ uploaded\ in\ the\ last\ 6\ months
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-dateafter\ now\-6months
+
+#\ Download\ only\ the\ videos\ uploaded\ on\ January\ 1,\ 1970
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-date\ 19700101
+
+$\ #\ Download\ only\ the\ videos\ uploaded\ in\ the\ 200x\ decade
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-dateafter\ 20000101\ \-\-datebefore\ 20091231
\f[]
.fi
.SH FAQ
-.SS Can you please put the \-b option back?
+.SS How do I update youtube\-dl?
+.PP
+If you\[aq]ve followed our manual installation
+instructions (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html), you can
+simply run \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-U\f[] (or, on Linux,
+\f[C]sudo\ youtube\-dl\ \-U\f[]).
+.PP
+If you have used pip, a simple
+\f[C]sudo\ pip\ install\ \-U\ youtube\-dl\f[] is sufficient to update.
+.PP
+If you have installed youtube\-dl using a package manager like
+\f[I]apt\-get\f[] or \f[I]yum\f[], use the standard system update
+mechanism to update.
+Note that distribution packages are often outdated.
+As a rule of thumb, youtube\-dl releases at least once a month, and
+often weekly or even daily.
+Simply go to https://yt\-dl.org to find out the current version.
+Unfortunately, there is nothing we youtube\-dl developers can do if your
+distribution serves a really outdated version.
+You can (and should) complain to your distribution in their bugtracker
+or support forum.
+.PP
+As a last resort, you can also uninstall the version installed by your
+package manager and follow our manual installation instructions.
+For that, remove the distribution\[aq]s package, with a line like
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+sudo\ apt\-get\ remove\ \-y\ youtube\-dl
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Afterwards, simply follow our manual installation
+instructions (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html):
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+sudo\ wget\ https://yt\-dl.org/latest/youtube\-dl\ \-O\ /usr/local/bin/youtube\-dl
+sudo\ chmod\ a+x\ /usr/local/bin/youtube\-dl
+hash\ \-r
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Again, from then on you\[aq]ll be able to update with
+\f[C]sudo\ youtube\-dl\ \-U\f[].
+.SS youtube\-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows
+.PP
+Add a file exclusion for \f[C]youtube\-dl.exe\f[] in Windows Defender
+settings.
+.SS I\[aq]m getting an error
+\f[C]Unable\ to\ extract\ OpenGraph\ title\f[] on YouTube playlists
+.PP
+YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so
+you\[aq]ll need at least youtube\-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube
+videos.
+.PP
+If you have installed youtube\-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py
+or a tarball, please use that to update.
+Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore.
+Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do.
+Feel free to report
+bugs (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+filebug) to
+the Ubuntu packaging
+people (mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20youtube-dl)
+\- all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent
+version.
+See above for a way to update.
+.SS I\[aq]m getting an error when trying to use output template:
+\f[C]error:\ using\ output\ template\ conflicts\ with\ using\ title,\ video\ ID\ or\ auto\ number\f[]
+.PP
+Make sure you are not using \f[C]\-o\f[] with any of these options
+\f[C]\-t\f[], \f[C]\-\-title\f[], \f[C]\-\-id\f[], \f[C]\-A\f[] or
+\f[C]\-\-auto\-number\f[] set in command line or in a configuration
+file.
+Remove the latter if any.
+.SS Do I always have to pass \f[C]\-citw\f[]?
+.PP
+By default, youtube\-dl intends to have the best options (incidentally,
+if you have a convincing case that these should be different, please
+file an issue where you explain that (https://yt-dl.org/bug)).
+Therefore, it is unnecessary and sometimes harmful to copy long option
+strings from webpages.
+In particular, the only option out of \f[C]\-citw\f[] that is regularly
+useful is \f[C]\-i\f[].
+.SS Can you please put the \f[C]\-b\f[] option back?
.PP
Most people asking this question are not aware that youtube\-dl now
defaults to downloading the highest available quality as reported by
too much.
We\[aq]re considering to provide a way to let you solve the
CAPTCHA (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/154), but at the
-moment, your best course of action is pointing a webbrowser to the
+moment, your best course of action is pointing a web browser to the
youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube\-dl.
+.SS Do I need any other programs?
+.PP
+youtube\-dl works fine on its own on most sites.
+However, if you want to convert video/audio, you\[aq]ll need
+avconv (https://libav.org/) or ffmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org/).
+On some sites \- most notably YouTube \- videos can be retrieved in a
+higher quality format without sound.
+youtube\-dl will detect whether avconv/ffmpeg is present and
+automatically pick the best option.
+.PP
+Videos or video formats streamed via RTMP protocol can only be
+downloaded when rtmpdump (https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) is installed.
+Downloading MMS and RTSP videos requires either
+mplayer (https://mplayerhq.hu/) or mpv (https://mpv.io/) to be
+installed.
.SS I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?
.PP
Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as
-vlc (http://www.videolan.org) or mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/).
-.SS The links provided by youtube\-dl \-g are not working anymore
+mpv (https://mpv.io/), vlc (https://www.videolan.org/) or
+mplayer (https://www.mplayerhq.hu/).
+.SS I extracted a video URL with \f[C]\-g\f[], but it does not play on
+another machine / in my web browser.
.PP
-The URLs youtube\-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct
-cookies.
+It depends a lot on the service.
+In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come
+from the same IP address and with the same cookies and/or HTTP headers.
Use the \f[C]\-\-cookies\f[] option to write the required cookies into a
file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file.
Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use
\f[C]\-\-dump\-user\-agent\f[] to see the one in use by youtube\-dl.
+You can also get necessary cookies and HTTP headers from JSON output
+obtained with \f[C]\-\-dump\-json\f[].
+.PP
+It may be beneficial to use IPv6; in some cases, the restrictions are
+only applied to IPv4.
+Some services (sometimes only for a subset of videos) do not restrict
+the video URL by IP address, cookie, or user\-agent, but these are the
+exception rather than the rule.
+.PP
+Please bear in mind that some URL protocols are \f[B]not\f[] supported
+by browsers out of the box, including RTMP.
+If you are using \f[C]\-g\f[], your own downloader must support these as
+well.
+.PP
+If you want to play the video on a machine that is not running
+youtube\-dl, you can relay the video content from the machine that runs
+youtube\-dl.
+You can use \f[C]\-o\ \-\f[] to let youtube\-dl stream a video to
+stdout, or simply allow the player to download the files written by
+youtube\-dl in turn.
.SS ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
.PP
-youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is
+YouTube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is
not supported by old versions of youtube\-dl.
-You can update youtube\-dl with \f[C]sudo\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-update\f[].
+See above (#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube\-dl.
.SS ERROR: unable to download video
.PP
-youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is
+YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is
not supported by old versions of youtube\-dl.
-You can update youtube\-dl with \f[C]sudo\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-update\f[].
+See above (#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube\-dl.
+.SS Video URL contains an ampersand and I\[aq]m getting some strange
+output \f[C][1]\ 2839\f[] or
+\f[C]\[aq]v\[aq]\ is\ not\ recognized\ as\ an\ internal\ or\ external\ command\f[]
+.PP
+That\[aq]s actually the output from your shell.
+Since ampersand is one of the special shell characters it\[aq]s
+interpreted by the shell preventing you from passing the whole URL to
+youtube\-dl.
+To disable your shell from interpreting the ampersands (or any other
+special characters) you have to either put the whole URL in quotes or
+escape them with a backslash (which approach will work depends on your
+shell).
+.PP
+For example if your URL is
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc you should end up with
+following command:
+.PP
+\f[C]youtube\-dl\ \[aq]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc\[aq]\f[]
+.PP
+or
+.PP
+\f[C]youtube\-dl\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4\\&v=BaW_jenozKc\f[]
+.PP
+For Windows you have to use the double quotes:
+.PP
+\f[C]youtube\-dl\ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc"\f[]
+.SS ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u\[aq]OF\[aq]
+.PP
+In February 2015, the new YouTube player contained a character sequence
+in a string that was misinterpreted by old versions of youtube\-dl.
+See above (#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube\-dl.
+.SS HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests or 402: Payment Required
+.PP
+These two error codes indicate that the service is blocking your IP
+address because of overuse.
+Contact the service and ask them to unblock your IP address, or \- if
+you have acquired a whitelisted IP address already \- use the
+\f[C]\-\-proxy\f[] or \f[C]\-\-source\-address\f[]
+options (#network-options) to select another IP address.
.SS SyntaxError: Non\-ASCII character
.PP
The error
Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.
.SS What is this binary file? Where has the code gone?
.PP
-Since June 2012 (#342) youtube\-dl is packed as an executable zipfile,
-simply unzip it (might need renaming to \f[C]youtube\-dl.zip\f[] first
-on some systems) or clone the git repository, as laid out above.
+Since June 2012 (#342 (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/342))
+youtube\-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might
+need renaming to \f[C]youtube\-dl.zip\f[] first on some systems) or
+clone the git repository, as laid out above.
If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the
\f[C]__main__.py\f[] file.
To recompile the executable, run \f[C]make\ youtube\-dl\f[].
-.SS The exe throws a \f[I]Runtime error from Visual C++\f[]
+.SS The exe throws an error due to missing \f[C]MSVCR100.dll\f[]
.PP
-To run the exe you need to install first the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
-Redistributable
-Package (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29).
-.SH COPYRIGHT
+To run the exe you need to install first the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
+Redistributable Package
+(x86) (https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555).
+.SS On Windows, how should I set up ffmpeg and youtube\-dl? Where should
+I put the exe files?
.PP
-youtube\-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
+If you put youtube\-dl and ffmpeg in the same directory that you\[aq]re
+running the command from, it will work, but that\[aq]s rather
+cumbersome.
.PP
-This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton
-(<https://github.com/dbbolton>) and is likewise released into the public
-domain.
-.SH BUGS
+To make a different directory work \- either for ffmpeg, or for
+youtube\-dl, or for both \- simply create the directory (say,
+\f[C]C:\\bin\f[], or \f[C]C:\\Users\\<User\ name>\\bin\f[]), put all the
+executables directly in there, and then set your PATH environment
+variable (https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml) to include
+that directory.
.PP
-Bugs and suggestions should be reported at:
-<https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues>
+From then on, after restarting your shell, you will be able to access
+both youtube\-dl and ffmpeg (and youtube\-dl will be able to find
+ffmpeg) by simply typing \f[C]youtube\-dl\f[] or \f[C]ffmpeg\f[], no
+matter what directory you\[aq]re in.
+.SS How do I put downloads into a specific folder?
+.PP
+Use the \f[C]\-o\f[] to specify an output template (#output-template),
+for example \f[C]\-o\ "/home/user/videos/%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s"\f[].
+If you want this for all of your downloads, put the option into your
+configuration file (#configuration).
+.SS How do I download a video starting with a \f[C]\-\f[]?
+.PP
+Either prepend \f[C]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\f[] or separate the
+ID from the options with \f[C]\-\-\f[]:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+youtube\-dl\ \-\-\ \-wNyEUrxzFU
+youtube\-dl\ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\-wNyEUrxzFU"
+\f[]
+.fi
+.SS How do I pass cookies to youtube\-dl?
+.PP
+Use the \f[C]\-\-cookies\f[] option, for example
+\f[C]\-\-cookies\ /path/to/cookies/file.txt\f[].
+.PP
+In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser
+extension for exporting cookies.
+For example,
+cookies.txt (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg)
+(for Chrome) or Export
+Cookies (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/)
+(for Firefox).
+.PP
+Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the
+first line of the cookies file must be either
+\f[C]#\ HTTP\ Cookie\ File\f[] or
+\f[C]#\ Netscape\ HTTP\ Cookie\ File\f[].
+Make sure you have correct newline
+format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and
+convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely
+\f[C]CRLF\f[] (\f[C]\\r\\n\f[]) for Windows and \f[C]LF\f[]
+(\f[C]\\n\f[]) for Unix and Unix\-like systems (Linux, Mac OS, etc.).
+\f[C]HTTP\ Error\ 400:\ Bad\ Request\f[] when using \f[C]\-\-cookies\f[]
+is a good sign of invalid newline format.
+.PP
+Passing cookies to youtube\-dl is a good way to workaround login when a
+particular extractor does not implement it explicitly.
+Another use case is working around
+CAPTCHA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require
+you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g.
+YouTube, CloudFlare).
+.SS How do I stream directly to media player?
+.PP
+You will first need to tell youtube\-dl to stream media to stdout with
+\f[C]\-o\ \-\f[], and also tell your media player to read from stdin (it
+must be capable of this for streaming) and then pipe former to latter.
+For example, streaming to vlc (https://www.videolan.org/) can be
+achieved with:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \-\ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj"\ |\ vlc\ \-
+\f[]
+.fi
+.SS How do I download only new videos from a playlist?
+.PP
+Use download\-archive feature.
+With this feature you should initially download the complete playlist
+with \f[C]\-\-download\-archive\ /path/to/download/archive/file.txt\f[]
+that will record identifiers of all the videos in a special file.
+Each subsequent run with the same \f[C]\-\-download\-archive\f[] will
+download only new videos and skip all videos that have been downloaded
+before.
+Note that only successful downloads are recorded in the file.
+.PP
+For example, at first,
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+youtube\-dl\ \-\-download\-archive\ archive.txt\ "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+will download the complete \f[C]PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re\f[]
+playlist and create a file \f[C]archive.txt\f[].
+Each subsequent run will only download new videos if any:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+youtube\-dl\ \-\-download\-archive\ archive.txt\ "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
+\f[]
+.fi
+.SS Should I add \f[C]\-\-hls\-prefer\-native\f[] into my config?
+.PP
+When youtube\-dl detects an HLS video, it can download it either with
+the built\-in downloader or ffmpeg.
+Since many HLS streams are slightly invalid and ffmpeg/youtube\-dl each
+handle some invalid cases better than the other, there is an option to
+switch the downloader if needed.
+.PP
+When youtube\-dl knows that one particular downloader works better for a
+given website, that downloader will be picked.
+Otherwise, youtube\-dl will pick the best downloader for general
+compatibility, which at the moment happens to be ffmpeg.
+This choice may change in future versions of youtube\-dl, with
+improvements of the built\-in downloader and/or ffmpeg.
+.PP
+In particular, the generic extractor (used when your website is not in
+the list of supported sites by
+youtube\-dl (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html)
+cannot mandate one specific downloader.
+.PP
+If you put either \f[C]\-\-hls\-prefer\-native\f[] or
+\f[C]\-\-hls\-prefer\-ffmpeg\f[] into your configuration, a different
+subset of videos will fail to download correctly.
+Instead, it is much better to file an issue (https://yt-dl.org/bug) or a
+pull request which details why the native or the ffmpeg HLS downloader
+is a better choice for your use case.
+.SS Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows
+current movies for free?
+.PP
+As a matter of policy (as well as legality), youtube\-dl does not
+include support for services that specialize in infringing copyright.
+As a rule of thumb, if you cannot easily find a video that the service
+is quite obviously allowed to distribute (i.e.
+that has been uploaded by the creator, the creator\[aq]s distributor, or
+is published under a free license), the service is probably unfit for
+inclusion to youtube\-dl.
+.PP
+A note on the service that they don\[aq]t host the infringing content,
+but just link to those who do, is evidence that the service should
+\f[B]not\f[] be included into youtube\-dl.
+The same goes for any DMCA note when the whole front page of the service
+is filled with videos they are not allowed to distribute.
+A "fair use" note is equally unconvincing if the service shows
+copyright\-protected videos in full without authorization.
+.PP
+Support requests for services that \f[B]do\f[] purchase the rights to
+distribute their content are perfectly fine though.
+If in doubt, you can simply include a source that mentions the
+legitimate purchase of content.
+.SS How can I speed up work on my issue?
+.PP
+(Also known as: Help, my important issue not being solved!) The
+youtube\-dl core developer team is quite small.
+While we do our best to solve as many issues as possible, sometimes that
+can take quite a while.
+To speed up your issue, here\[aq]s what you can do:
+.PP
+First of all, please do report the issue at our issue
+tracker (https://yt-dl.org/bugs).
+That allows us to coordinate all efforts by users and developers, and
+serves as a unified point.
+Unfortunately, the youtube\-dl project has grown too large to use
+personal email as an effective communication channel.
+.PP
+Please read the bug reporting instructions (#bugs) below.
+A lot of bugs lack all the necessary information.
+If you can, offer proxy, VPN, or shell access to the youtube\-dl
+developers.
+If you are able to, test the issue from multiple computers in multiple
+countries to exclude local censorship or misconfiguration issues.
+.PP
+If nobody is interested in solving your issue, you are welcome to take
+matters into your own hands and submit a pull request (or coerce/pay
+somebody else to do so).
+.PP
+Feel free to bump the issue from time to time by writing a small comment
+("Issue is still present in youtube\-dl version ...from France, but
+fixed from Belgium"), but please not more than once a month.
+Please do not declare your issue as \f[C]important\f[] or
+\f[C]urgent\f[].
+.SS How can I detect whether a given URL is supported by youtube\-dl?
+.PP
+For one, have a look at the list of supported
+sites (docs/supportedsites.md).
+Note that it can sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme
+(say, from https://example.com/video/1234567 to
+https://example.com/v/1234567 ) and youtube\-dl reports an URL of a
+service in that list as unsupported.
+In that case, simply report a bug.
+.PP
+It is \f[I]not\f[] possible to detect whether a URL is supported or not.
+That\[aq]s because youtube\-dl contains a generic extractor which
+matches \f[B]all\f[] URLs.
+You may be tempted to disable, exclude, or remove the generic extractor,
+but the generic extractor not only allows users to extract videos from
+lots of websites that embed a video from another service, but may also
+be used to extract video from a service that it\[aq]s hosting itself.
+Therefore, we neither recommend nor support disabling, excluding, or
+removing the generic extractor.
+.PP
+If you want to find out whether a given URL is supported, simply call
+youtube\-dl with it.
+If you get no videos back, chances are the URL is either not referring
+to a video or unsupported.
+You can find out which by examining the output (if you run youtube\-dl
+on the console) or catching an \f[C]UnsupportedError\f[] exception if
+you run it from a Python program.
+.SH Why do I need to go through that much red tape when filing bugs?
+.PP
+Before we had the issue template, despite our extensive bug reporting
+instructions (#bugs), about 80% of the issue reports we got were
+useless, for instance because people used ancient versions hundreds of
+releases old, because of simple syntactic errors (not in youtube\-dl but
+in general shell usage), because the problem was already reported
+multiple times before, because people did not actually read an error
+message, even if it said "please install ffmpeg", because people did not
+mention the URL they were trying to download and many more simple,
+easy\-to\-avoid problems, many of whom were totally unrelated to
+youtube\-dl.
+.PP
+youtube\-dl is an open\-source project manned by too few volunteers, so
+we\[aq]d rather spend time fixing bugs where we are certain none of
+those simple problems apply, and where we can be reasonably confident to
+be able to reproduce the issue without asking the reporter repeatedly.
+As such, the output of \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-v\ YOUR_URL_HERE\f[] is
+really all that\[aq]s required to file an issue.
+The issue template also guides you through some basic steps you can do,
+such as checking that your version of youtube\-dl is current.
+.SH DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS
+.PP
+Most users do not need to build youtube\-dl and can download the
+builds (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html) or get them from
+their distribution.
+.PP
+To run youtube\-dl as a developer, you don\[aq]t need to build anything
+either.
+Simply execute
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+python\ \-m\ youtube_dl
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+To run the test, simply invoke your favorite test runner, or execute a
+test file directly; any of the following work:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+python\ \-m\ unittest\ discover
+python\ test/test_download.py
+nosetests
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+See item 6 of new extractor tutorial (#adding-support-for-a-new-site)
+for how to run extractor specific test cases.
+.PP
+If you want to create a build of youtube\-dl yourself, you\[aq]ll need
+.IP \[bu] 2
+python
+.IP \[bu] 2
+make (only GNU make is supported)
+.IP \[bu] 2
+pandoc
+.IP \[bu] 2
+zip
+.IP \[bu] 2
+nosetests
+.SS Adding support for a new site
+.PP
+If you want to add support for a new site, first of all \f[B]make
+sure\f[] this site is \f[B]not dedicated to copyright
+infringement (README.md#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)\f[].
+youtube\-dl does \f[B]not support\f[] such sites thus pull requests
+adding support for them \f[B]will be rejected\f[].
+.PP
+After you have ensured this site is distributing its content legally,
+you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called
+\f[C]yourextractor\f[]):
+.IP " 1." 4
+Fork this repository (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/fork)
+.IP " 2." 4
+Check out the source code with:
+.RS 4
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+git\ clone\ git\@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube\-dl.git
+\f[]
+.fi
+.RE
+.IP " 3." 4
+Start a new git branch with
+.RS 4
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+cd\ youtube\-dl
+git\ checkout\ \-b\ yourextractor
+\f[]
+.fi
+.RE
+.IP " 4." 4
+Start with this simple template and save it to
+\f[C]youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py\f[]:
+.RS 4
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+#\ coding:\ utf\-8
+from\ __future__\ import\ unicode_literals
+
+from\ .common\ import\ InfoExtractor
+
+
+class\ YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor):
+\ \ \ \ _VALID_URL\ =\ r\[aq]https?://(?:www\\.)?yourextractor\\.com/watch/(?P<id>[0\-9]+)\[aq]
+\ \ \ \ _TEST\ =\ {
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]url\[aq]:\ \[aq]https://yourextractor.com/watch/42\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]md5\[aq]:\ \[aq]TODO:\ md5\ sum\ of\ the\ first\ 10241\ bytes\ of\ the\ video\ file\ (use\ \-\-test)\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]info_dict\[aq]:\ {
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]id\[aq]:\ \[aq]42\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]ext\[aq]:\ \[aq]mp4\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]title\[aq]:\ \[aq]Video\ title\ goes\ here\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]thumbnail\[aq]:\ r\[aq]re:^https?://.*\\.jpg$\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ TODO\ more\ properties,\ either\ as:
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ *\ A\ value
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ *\ MD5\ checksum;\ start\ the\ string\ with\ md5:
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ *\ A\ regular\ expression;\ start\ the\ string\ with\ re:
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ *\ Any\ Python\ type\ (for\ example\ int\ or\ float)
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ }
+\ \ \ \ }
+
+\ \ \ \ def\ _real_extract(self,\ url):
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ video_id\ =\ self._match_id(url)
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ webpage\ =\ self._download_webpage(url,\ video_id)
+
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ TODO\ more\ code\ goes\ here,\ for\ example\ ...
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ title\ =\ self._html_search_regex(r\[aq]<h1>(.+?)</h1>\[aq],\ webpage,\ \[aq]title\[aq])
+
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ return\ {
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]id\[aq]:\ video_id,
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]title\[aq]:\ title,
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]description\[aq]:\ self._og_search_description(webpage),
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]uploader\[aq]:\ self._search_regex(r\[aq]<div[^>]+id="uploader"[^>]*>([^<]+)<\[aq],\ webpage,\ \[aq]uploader\[aq],\ fatal=False),
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ TODO\ more\ properties\ (see\ youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ }
+\f[]
+.fi
+.RE
+.IP " 5." 4
+Add an import in
+\f[C]youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py\f[] (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py).
+.IP " 6." 4
+Run
+\f[C]python\ test/test_download.py\ TestDownload.test_YourExtractor\f[].
+This \f[I]should fail\f[] at first, but you can continually re\-run it
+until you\[aq]re done.
+If you decide to add more than one test, then rename \f[C]_TEST\f[] to
+\f[C]_TESTS\f[] and make it into a list of dictionaries.
+The tests will then be named \f[C]TestDownload.test_YourExtractor\f[],
+\f[C]TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_1\f[],
+\f[C]TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_2\f[], etc.
+Note that tests with \f[C]only_matching\f[] key in test\[aq]s dict are
+not counted in.
+.IP " 7." 4
+Have a look at
+\f[C]youtube_dl/extractor/common.py\f[] (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
+for possible helper methods and a detailed description of what your
+extractor should and may
+return (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L74-L252).
+Add tests and code for as many as you want.
+.IP " 8." 4
+Make sure your code follows youtube\-dl coding
+conventions (#youtube-dl-coding-conventions) and check the code with
+flake8 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8).
+Also make sure your code works under all
+Python (https://www.python.org/) versions claimed supported by
+youtube\-dl, namely 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+.
+.IP " 9." 4
+When the tests pass, add (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add) the new
+files and commit (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit) them and
+push (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push) the result, like this:
+.RS 4
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+$\ git\ add\ youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+$\ git\ add\ youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
+$\ git\ commit\ \-m\ \[aq][yourextractor]\ Add\ new\ extractor\[aq]
+$\ git\ push\ origin\ yourextractor
+\f[]
+.fi
+.RE
+.IP "10." 4
+Finally, create a pull
+request (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request).
+We\[aq]ll then review and merge it.
.PP
-Please include:
+In any case, thank you very much for your contributions!
+.SS youtube\-dl coding conventions
+.PP
+This section introduces a guide lines for writing idiomatic, robust and
+future\-proof extractor code.
+.PP
+Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of
+the source data provided by 3rd party media hosters out of your control
+and this layout tends to change.
+As an extractor implementer your task is not only to write code that
+will extract media links and metadata correctly but also to minimize
+dependency on the source\[aq]s layout and even to make the code foresee
+potential future changes and be ready for that.
+This is important because it will allow the extractor not to break on
+minor layout changes thus keeping old youtube\-dl versions working.
+Even though this breakage issue is easily fixed by emitting a new
+version of youtube\-dl with a fix incorporated, all the previous
+versions become broken in all repositories and distros\[aq] packages
+that may not be so prompt in fetching the update from us.
+Needless to say, some non rolling release distros may never receive an
+update at all.
+.SS Mandatory and optional metafields
+.PP
+For extraction to work youtube\-dl relies on metadata your extractor
+extracts and provides to youtube\-dl expressed by an information
+dictionary (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L75-L257)
+or simply \f[I]info dict\f[].
+Only the following meta fields in the \f[I]info dict\f[] are considered
+mandatory for a successful extraction process by youtube\-dl:
.IP \[bu] 2
-Your exact command line, like
-\f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-t\ "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHlDtZ6Oc3s&feature=channel_video_title"\f[].
-A common mistake is not to escape the \f[C]&\f[].
-Putting URLs in quotes should solve this problem.
+\f[C]id\f[] (media identifier)
.IP \[bu] 2
-If possible re\-run the command with \f[C]\-\-verbose\f[], and include
-the full output, it is really helpful to us.
+\f[C]title\f[] (media title)
+.IP \[bu] 2
+\f[C]url\f[] (media download URL) or \f[C]formats\f[]
+.PP
+In fact only the last option is technically mandatory (i.e.
+if you can\[aq]t figure out the download location of the media the
+extraction does not make any sense).
+But by convention youtube\-dl also treats \f[C]id\f[] and \f[C]title\f[]
+as mandatory.
+Thus the aforementioned metafields are the critical data that the
+extraction does not make any sense without and if any of them fail to be
+extracted then the extractor is considered completely broken.
+.PP
+Any
+field (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L149-L257)
+apart from the aforementioned ones are considered \f[B]optional\f[].
+That means that extraction should be \f[B]tolerant\f[] to situations
+when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if
+they are always available at the moment) and \f[B]future\-proof\f[] in
+order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields.
+.SS Example
+.PP
+Say you have some source dictionary \f[C]meta\f[] that you\[aq]ve
+fetched as JSON with HTTP request and it has a key \f[C]summary\f[]:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+meta\ =\ self._download_json(url,\ video_id)
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Assume at this point \f[C]meta\f[]\[aq]s layout is:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+{
+\ \ \ \ ...
+\ \ \ \ "summary":\ "some\ fancy\ summary\ text",
+\ \ \ \ ...
+}
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Assume you want to extract \f[C]summary\f[] and put it into the
+resulting info dict as \f[C]description\f[].
+Since \f[C]description\f[] is an optional meta field you should be ready
+that this key may be missing from the \f[C]meta\f[] dict, so that you
+should extract it like:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+description\ =\ meta.get(\[aq]summary\[aq])\ \ #\ correct
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+and not like:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+description\ =\ meta[\[aq]summary\[aq]]\ \ #\ incorrect
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+The latter will break extraction process with \f[C]KeyError\f[] if
+\f[C]summary\f[] disappears from \f[C]meta\f[] at some later time but
+with the former approach extraction will just go ahead with
+\f[C]description\f[] set to \f[C]None\f[] which is perfectly fine
+(remember \f[C]None\f[] is equivalent to the absence of data).
+.PP
+Similarly, you should pass \f[C]fatal=False\f[] when extracting optional
+data from a webpage with \f[C]_search_regex\f[],
+\f[C]_html_search_regex\f[] or similar methods, for instance:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+description\ =\ self._search_regex(
+\ \ \ \ r\[aq]<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ webpage,\ \[aq]description\[aq],\ fatal=False)
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+With \f[C]fatal\f[] set to \f[C]False\f[] if \f[C]_search_regex\f[]
+fails to extract \f[C]description\f[] it will emit a warning and
+continue extraction.
+.PP
+You can also pass \f[C]default=<some\ fallback\ value>\f[], for example:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+description\ =\ self._search_regex(
+\ \ \ \ r\[aq]<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ webpage,\ \[aq]description\[aq],\ default=None)
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+On failure this code will silently continue the extraction with
+\f[C]description\f[] set to \f[C]None\f[].
+That is useful for metafields that may or may not be present.
+.SS Provide fallbacks
+.PP
+When extracting metadata try to do so from multiple sources.
+For example if \f[C]title\f[] is present in several places, try
+extracting from at least some of them.
+This makes it more future\-proof in case some of the sources become
+unavailable.
+.SS Example
+.PP
+Say \f[C]meta\f[] from the previous example has a \f[C]title\f[] and you
+are about to extract it.
+Since \f[C]title\f[] is a mandatory meta field you should end up with
+something like:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+title\ =\ meta[\[aq]title\[aq]]
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+If \f[C]title\f[] disappears from \f[C]meta\f[] in future due to some
+changes on the hoster\[aq]s side the extraction would fail since
+\f[C]title\f[] is mandatory.
+That\[aq]s expected.
+.PP
+Assume that you have some another source you can extract \f[C]title\f[]
+from, for example \f[C]og:title\f[] HTML meta of a \f[C]webpage\f[].
+In this case you can provide a fallback scenario:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+title\ =\ meta.get(\[aq]title\[aq])\ or\ self._og_search_title(webpage)
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+This code will try to extract from \f[C]meta\f[] first and if it fails
+it will try extracting \f[C]og:title\f[] from a \f[C]webpage\f[].
+.SS Make regular expressions flexible
+.PP
+When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy and flexible.
+.SS Example
+.PP
+Say you need to extract \f[C]title\f[] from the following HTML code:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+<span\ style="position:\ absolute;\ left:\ 910px;\ width:\ 90px;\ float:\ right;\ z\-index:\ 9999;"\ class="title">some\ fancy\ title</span>
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+The code for that task should look similar to:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+title\ =\ self._search_regex(
+\ \ \ \ r\[aq]<span[^>]+class="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)\[aq],\ webpage,\ \[aq]title\[aq])
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Or even better:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+title\ =\ self._search_regex(
+\ \ \ \ r\[aq]<span[^>]+class=(["\\\[aq]])title\\1[^>]*>(?P<title>[^<]+)\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ webpage,\ \[aq]title\[aq],\ group=\[aq]title\[aq])
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Note how you tolerate potential changes in the \f[C]style\f[]
+attribute\[aq]s value or switch from using double quotes to single for
+\f[C]class\f[] attribute:
+.PP
+The code definitely should not look like:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+title\ =\ self._search_regex(
+\ \ \ \ r\[aq]<span\ style="position:\ absolute;\ left:\ 910px;\ width:\ 90px;\ float:\ right;\ z\-index:\ 9999;"\ class="title">(.*?)</span>\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ webpage,\ \[aq]title\[aq],\ group=\[aq]title\[aq])
+\f[]
+.fi
+.SS Use safe conversion functions
+.PP
+Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from \f[C]utils\f[]:
+\f[C]int_or_none\f[], \f[C]float_or_none\f[].
+Use them for string to number conversions as well.
+.SH EMBEDDING YOUTUBE\-DL
+.PP
+youtube\-dl makes the best effort to be a good command\-line program,
+and thus should be callable from any programming language.
+If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to create a
+report (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/new).
+.PP
+From a Python program, you can embed youtube\-dl in a more powerful
+fashion, like this:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+from\ __future__\ import\ unicode_literals
+import\ youtube_dl
+
+ydl_opts\ =\ {}
+with\ youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)\ as\ ydl:
+\ \ \ \ ydl.download([\[aq]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc\[aq]])
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+Most likely, you\[aq]ll want to use various options.
+For a list of options available, have a look at
+\f[C]youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py\f[] (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/3e4cedf9e8cd3157df2457df7274d0c842421945/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L137-L312).
+For a start, if you want to intercept youtube\-dl\[aq]s output, set a
+\f[C]logger\f[] object.
+.PP
+Here\[aq]s a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors
+(and a short message after the download is finished), and
+downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+from\ __future__\ import\ unicode_literals
+import\ youtube_dl
+
+
+class\ MyLogger(object):
+\ \ \ \ def\ debug(self,\ msg):
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ pass
+
+\ \ \ \ def\ warning(self,\ msg):
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ pass
+
+\ \ \ \ def\ error(self,\ msg):
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ print(msg)
+
+
+def\ my_hook(d):
+\ \ \ \ if\ d[\[aq]status\[aq]]\ ==\ \[aq]finished\[aq]:
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ print(\[aq]Done\ downloading,\ now\ converting\ ...\[aq])
+
+
+ydl_opts\ =\ {
+\ \ \ \ \[aq]format\[aq]:\ \[aq]bestaudio/best\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \[aq]postprocessors\[aq]:\ [{
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]key\[aq]:\ \[aq]FFmpegExtractAudio\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]preferredcodec\[aq]:\ \[aq]mp3\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]preferredquality\[aq]:\ \[aq]192\[aq],
+\ \ \ \ }],
+\ \ \ \ \[aq]logger\[aq]:\ MyLogger(),
+\ \ \ \ \[aq]progress_hooks\[aq]:\ [my_hook],
+}
+with\ youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)\ as\ ydl:
+\ \ \ \ ydl.download([\[aq]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc\[aq]])
+\f[]
+.fi
+.SH BUGS
+.PP
+Bugs and suggestions should be reported at:
+<https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues>.
+Unless you were prompted to or there is another pertinent reason (e.g.
+GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports
+via personal email.
+For discussions, join us in the IRC channel
+#youtube\-dl (irc://chat.freenode.net/#youtube-dl) on freenode
+(webchat (https://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=youtube-dl)).
+.PP
+\f[B]Please include the full output of youtube\-dl when run with
+\f[C]\-v\f[]\f[], i.e.
+\f[B]add\f[] \f[C]\-v\f[] flag to \f[B]your command line\f[], copy the
+\f[B]whole\f[] output and post it in the issue body wrapped in ``` for
+better formatting.
+It should look similar to this:
+.IP
+.nf
+\f[C]
+$\ youtube\-dl\ \-v\ <your\ command\ line>
+[debug]\ System\ config:\ []
+[debug]\ User\ config:\ []
+[debug]\ Command\-line\ args:\ [u\[aq]\-v\[aq],\ u\[aq]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj\[aq]]
+[debug]\ Encodings:\ locale\ cp1251,\ fs\ mbcs,\ out\ cp866,\ pref\ cp1251
+[debug]\ youtube\-dl\ version\ 2015.12.06
+[debug]\ Git\ HEAD:\ 135392e
+[debug]\ Python\ version\ 2.6.6\ \-\ Windows\-2003Server\-5.2.3790\-SP2
+[debug]\ exe\ versions:\ ffmpeg\ N\-75573\-g1d0487f,\ ffprobe\ N\-75573\-g1d0487f,\ rtmpdump\ 2.4
+[debug]\ Proxy\ map:\ {}
+\&...
+\f[]
+.fi
+.PP
+\f[B]Do not post screenshots of verbose logs; only plain text is
+acceptable.\f[]
+.PP
+The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging
+information.
+Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore
+do not get solved in short order, if ever.
+.PP
+Please re\-read your issue once again to avoid a couple of common
+mistakes (you can and should use this as a checklist):
+.SS Is the description of the issue itself sufficient?
+.PP
+We often get issue reports that we cannot really decipher.
+While in most cases we eventually get the required information after
+asking back multiple times, this poses an unnecessary drain on our
+resources.
+Many contributors, including myself, are also not native speakers, so we
+may misread some parts.
+.PP
+So please elaborate on what feature you are requesting, or what bug you
+want to be fixed.
+Make sure that it\[aq]s obvious
.IP \[bu] 2
-The output of \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-\-version\f[]
+What the problem is
.IP \[bu] 2
-The output of \f[C]python\ \-\-version\f[]
+How it could be fixed
.IP \[bu] 2
-The name and version of your Operating System ("Ubuntu 11.04 x64" or
-"Windows 7 x64" is usually enough).
+How your proposed solution would look like
+.PP
+If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing
+some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it.
+We\[aq]re often too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing
+info makes misinterpretation likely.
+As a committer myself, I often get frustrated by these issues, since the
+only possible way for me to move forward on them is to ask for
+clarification over and over.
+.PP
+For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the
+\f[I]complete\f[] output of youtube\-dl when called with the
+\f[C]\-v\f[] flag.
+The error message you get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would
+not believe how many of our bug reports do not contain this information.
+.PP
+If your server has multiple IPs or you suspect censorship, adding
+\f[C]\-\-call\-home\f[] may be a good idea to get more diagnostics.
+If the error is \f[C]ERROR:\ Unable\ to\ extract\ ...\f[] and you cannot
+reproduce it from multiple countries, add \f[C]\-\-dump\-pages\f[]
+(warning: this will yield a rather large output, redirect it to the file
+\f[C]log.txt\f[] by adding \f[C]>log.txt\ 2>&1\f[] to your
+command\-line) or upload the \f[C]\&.dump\f[] files you get when you add
+\f[C]\-\-write\-pages\f[] somewhere (https://gist.github.com/).
+.PP
+\f[B]Site support requests must contain an example URL\f[].
+An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like
+\f[C]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc\f[].
+There should be an obvious video present.
+Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video
+service (e.g.
+\f[C]https://www.youtube.com/\f[]) is \f[I]not\f[] an example URL.
+.SS Are you using the latest version?
+.PP
+Before reporting any issue, type \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-U\f[].
+This should report that you\[aq]re up\-to\-date.
+About 20% of the reports we receive are already fixed, but people are
+using outdated versions.
+This goes for feature requests as well.
+.SS Is the issue already documented?
+.PP
+Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you\[aq]re
+trying to open.
+Search at the top of the window or browse the GitHub
+Issues (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) of this
+repository.
+If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of
+"This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01.
+Here is some more information on the issue: ...".
+While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid
+activity.
+.SS Why are existing options not enough?
+.PP
+Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at the list of
+supported
+options (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options).
+Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already!
+Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail
+how the existing similar options do \f[I]not\f[] solve your problem.
+.SS Is there enough context in your bug report?
+.PP
+People want to solve problems, and often think they do us a favor by
+breaking down their larger problems (e.g.
+wanting to skip already downloaded files) to a specific request (e.g.
+requesting us to look whether the file exists before downloading the
+info page).
+However, what often happens is that they break down the problem into two
+steps: One simple, and one impossible (or extremely complicated one).
+.PP
+We are then presented with a very complicated request when the original
+problem could be solved far easier, e.g.
+by recording the downloaded video IDs in a separate file.
+To avoid this, you must include the greater context where it is
+non\-obvious.
+In particular, every feature request that does not consist of adding
+support for a new site should contain a use case scenario that explains
+in what situation the missing feature would be useful.
+.SS Does the issue involve one problem, and one problem only?
+.PP
+Some of our users seem to think there is a limit of issues they can or
+should open.
+There is no limit of issues they can or should open.
+While it may seem appealing to be able to dump all your issues into one
+ticket, that means that someone who solves one of your issues cannot
+mark the issue as closed.
+Typically, reporting a bunch of issues leads to the ticket lingering
+since nobody wants to attack that behemoth, until someone mercifully
+splits the issue into multiple ones.
+.PP
+In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to
+services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using
+the same backend technology).
+Do not request support for vimeo user videos, White house podcasts, and
+Google Plus pages in the same issue.
+Also, make sure that you don\[aq]t post bug reports alongside feature
+requests.
+As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs of
+youtube\-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand.
+Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new
+video service.
+.SS Is anyone going to need the feature?
+.PP
+Only post features that you (or an incapacitated friend you can
+personally talk to) require.
+Do not post features because they seem like a good idea.
+If they are really useful, they will be requested by someone who
+requires them.
+.SS Is your question about youtube\-dl?
+.PP
+It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely
+unrelated to youtube\-dl and relate to a different, or even the
+reporter\[aq]s own, application.
+Please make sure that you are actually using youtube\-dl.
+If you are using a UI for youtube\-dl, report the bug to the maintainer
+of the actual application providing the UI.
+On the other hand, if your UI for youtube\-dl fails in some way you
+believe is related to youtube\-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the
+bug.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+.PP
+youtube\-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
.PP
-For discussions, join us in the irc channel #youtube\-dl on freenode.
+This README file was originally written by Daniel
+Bolton (https://github.com/dbbolton) and is likewise released into the
+public domain.
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