Alternatively, refer to the developer instructions for how to check out
and work with the git repository. For further options, including PGP
-signatures, see https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html .
+signatures, see the youtube-dl Download Page.
expected filesize (experimental)
--hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of
ffmpeg (experimental)
+ --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)
--external-downloader COMMAND Use the specified external downloader.
Currently supports
aria2c,axel,curl,httpie,wget
--all-formats Download all available video formats
--prefer-free-formats Prefer free video formats unless a specific
one is requested
- -F, --list-formats List all available formats of specified
+ -F, --list-formats List all available formats of requested
videos
--youtube-skip-dash-manifest Do not download the DASH manifests and
related data on YouTube videos
preference, for example: "srt" or
"ass/srt/best"
--sub-lang LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download
- (optional) separated by commas, use IETF
- language tags like 'en,pt'
+ (optional) separated by commas, use --list-
+ subs for available language tags
Authentication Options:
downloading, similar to find's -exec
syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
- --convert-subtitles FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
+ --convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
(currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)
is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by a
lowercase S. Allowed names are:
-- id: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.
-- url: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.
-- uploader: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the
- person who uploaded the video.
-- upload_date: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date in
- YYYYMMDD format.
-- title: The sequence will be replaced by the video title.
-- ext: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension
- (like flv or mp4).
-- epoch: The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating
- the file.
-- autonumber: The sequence will be replaced by a five-digit number
- that will be increased with each download, starting at zero.
-- playlist: The sequence will be replaced by the name or the id of the
- playlist that contains the video.
-- playlist_index: The sequence will be replaced by the index of the
- video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according to the
- total length of the playlist.
-- format_id: The sequence will be replaced by the format code
- specified by --format.
-- duration: The sequence will be replaced by the length of the video
- in seconds.
+- id: Video identifier
+- title: Video title
+- url: Video URL
+- ext: Video filename extension
+- alt_title: A secondary title of the video
+- display_id: An alternative identifier for the video
+- uploader: Full name of the video uploader
+- creator: The main artist who created the video
+- release_date: The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
+- timestamp: UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
+- upload_date: Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
+- uploader_id: Nickname or id of the video uploader
+- location: Physical location where the video was filmed
+- duration: Length of the video in seconds
+- view_count: How many users have watched the video on the platform
+- like_count: Number of positive ratings of the video
+- dislike_count: Number of negative ratings of the video
+- repost_count: Number of reposts of the video
+- average_rating: Average rating give by users, the scale used depends
+ on the webpage
+- comment_count: Number of comments on the video
+- age_limit: Age restriction for the video (years)
+- format: A human-readable description of the format
+- format_id: Format code specified by --format
+- format_note: Additional info about the format
+- width: Width of the video
+- height: Height of the video
+- resolution: Textual description of width and height
+- tbr: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
+- abr: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
+- acodec: Name of the audio codec in use
+- asr: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
+- vbr: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
+- fps: Frame rate
+- vcodec: Name of the video codec in use
+- container: Name of the container format
+- filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
+- filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes
+- protocol: The protocol that will be used for the actual download
+- extractor: Name of the extractor
+- extractor_key: Key name of the extractor
+- epoch: Unix epoch when creating the file
+- autonumber: Five-digit number that will be increased with each
+ download, starting at zero
+- playlist: Name or id of the playlist that contains the video
+- playlist_index: Index of the video in the playlist padded with
+ leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
+
+Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
+- chapter: Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to -
+chapter_number: Number of the chapter the video belongs to - chapter_id:
+Id of the chapter the video belongs to
+
+Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
+- series: Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
+- season: Title of the season the video episode belongs to -
+season_number: Number of the season the video episode belongs to -
+season_id: Id of the season the video episode belongs to - episode:
+Title of the video episode - episode_number: Number of the video episode
+within a season - episode_id: Id of the video episode
+
+Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in 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 particular extractor, such sequences
+will be replaced with NA.
+
+For example for -o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s and mp4 video with title
+youtube-dl test video and id BaW_jenozKcj this will result in a
+youtube-dl test video-BaW_jenozKcj.mp4 file created in the current
+directory.
+
+Output template can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g.
+-o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' that will
+result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding to this
+path template. Any missing directory will be automatically created for
+you.
+
+To specify percent literal in output template use %%. To output to
+stdout use -o -.
The current default template is %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s.
or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the
--restrict-filenames flag to get a shorter title:
-``` {.bash}
-$ youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
-youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
-$ youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
-youtube-dl_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file name
-```
+Examples (note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of
+single):
+
+ $ youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc
+ youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
+
+ $ youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' 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 '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
+
+ # Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
+ $ youtube-dl -u user -p password -o '~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' 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" http://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617
+
+ # Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
+ $ youtube-dl -o - BaW_jenozKc
FORMAT SELECTION
-By default youtube-dl tries to download the best quality, but sometimes
-you may want to download in a different format. The simplest case is
-requesting a specific format, for example -f 22. You can get the list of
-available formats using --list-formats, you can also use a file
-extension (currently it supports aac, m4a, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, webm) or
-the special names best, bestvideo, bestaudio and worst.
+By default youtube-dl tries to download the best available quality, i.e.
+if you want the best quality you DON'T NEED to pass any special options,
+youtube-dl will guess it for you by DEFAULT.
+
+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 _format selection_ based on
+which you can explicitly specify desired format, select formats based on
+some criterion or criteria, setup precedence and much more.
+
+The general syntax for format selection is --format FORMAT or shorter
+-f FORMAT where FORMAT is a _selector expression_, i.e. an expression
+that describes format or formats you would like to download.
+
+The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with
+-f 22 you can download the format with format code equal to 22. You can
+get the list of available format codes for particular video using
+--list-formats or -F. Note that these format codes are extractor
+specific.
+
+You can also use a file extension (currently 3gp, aac, flv, m4a, mp3,
+mp4, ogg, wav, webm are supported) to download best quality format of
+particular file extension served as a single file, e.g. -f webm will
+download best quality format with webm extension served as a single
+file.
+
+You can also use special names to select particular edge case format: -
+best: Select best quality format represented by single file with video
+and audio - worst: Select worst quality format represented by single
+file with video and audio - bestvideo: Select best quality video only
+format (e.g. DASH video), may not be available - worstvideo: Select
+worst quality video only format, may not be available - bestaudio:
+Select best quality audio only format, may not be available -
+worstaudio: Select worst quality audio only format, may not be available
+
+For example, to download worst quality video only format you can use
+-f worstvideo.
If you want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same
formats available, you can specify the order of preference using
-slashes, as in -f 22/17/18. You can also filter the video results by
-putting a condition in brackets, as in -f "best[height=720]" (or
--f "[filesize>10M]"). This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr,
-vbr, asr, and fps and the comparisons <, <=, >, >=, =, != and for ext,
-acodec, vcodec, container, and protocol and the comparisons =, != .
+slashes. Note that slash is left-associative, i.e. formats on the left
+hand side are preferred, for example -f 22/17/18 will download format 22
+if it's available, otherwise it will download format 17 if it's
+available, otherwise it will download format 18 if it's available,
+otherwise it will complain that no suitable formats are available for
+download.
+
+If you want to download several formats of the same video use comma as a
+separator, e.g. -f 22,17,18 will download all these three formats, of
+course if they are available. Or more sophisticated example combined
+with precedence feature -f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio.
+
+You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in
+brackets, as in -f "best[height=720]" (or -f "[filesize>10M]").
+
+The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >,
+>=, = (equals), != (not equals): - filesize: The number of bytes, if
+known in advance - width: Width of the video, if known - height: Height
+of the video, if known - tbr: Average bitrate of audio and video in
+KBit/s - abr: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s - vbr: Average video
+bitrate in KBit/s - asr: Audio sampling rate in Hertz - fps: Frame rate
+
+Also filtering work for comparisons = (equals), != (not equals), ^=
+(begins with), $= (ends with), *= (contains) and following string meta
+fields: - ext: File extension - acodec: Name of the audio codec in use -
+vcodec: Name of the video codec in use - container: Name of the
+container format - protocol: The protocol that will be used for the
+actual download, lower-case. http, https, rtsp, rtmp, rtmpe, m3u8, or
+m3u8_native
+
+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 video hoster.
+
Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a
question mark (?) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so
-f "[height <=? 720][tbr>500]" selects up to 720p videos (or videos
where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s.
-Use commas to download multiple formats, such as
--f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio. You can merge the video and
-audio of two formats into a single file using
--f <video-format>+<audio-format> (requires ffmpeg or avconv), for
-example -f bestvideo+bestaudio. 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 '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'.
+
+You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file
+using -f <video-format>+<audio-format> (requires ffmpeg or avconv
+installed), for example -f bestvideo+bestaudio will download best video
+only format, best audio only format and mux them together with
+ffmpeg/avconv.
+
+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 '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'.
Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube-dl uses
-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best as default format selection (see #5447,
falls back to best and results in downloading the best available quality
served as a single file. best is also needed for videos that don't come
from YouTube because they don't provide the audio and video in two
-different files. If you want to only download some dash formats (for
+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 bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best to your configuration file.
your choice with -f best. You may want to add it to the configuration
file in order not to type it every time you run youtube-dl.
+Examples (note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of
+single):
+
+ # Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available
+ $ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'
+
+ # Download best format available but not better that 480p
+ $ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]'
+
+ # Download best video only format but no bigger that 50 MB
+ $ youtube-dl -f 'best[filesize<50M]'
+
+ # Download best format available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol
+ $ youtube-dl -f '(bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol^=http]'
+
VIDEO SELECTION
Examples:
-``` {.bash}
-# Download only the videos uploaded in the last 6 months
-$ youtube-dl --dateafter now-6months
+ # 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 on January 1, 1970
+ $ youtube-dl --date 19700101
-$ # Download only the videos uploaded in the 200x decade
-$ youtube-dl --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231
-```
+ $ # Download only the videos uploaded in the 200x decade
+ $ youtube-dl --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231
-o "/home/user/videos/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s". If you want this for
all of your downloads, put the option into your configuration file.
-How do I download a video starting with a - ?
+How do I download a video starting with a -?
Either prepend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= or separate the ID from
the options with --:
when using --cookies is a good sign of invalid newline format.
Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a
-particular extractor does not implement it explicitly.
+particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case
+is working around CAPTCHA some websites require you to solve in
+particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare).
Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows current movies for free?
4. Start with this simple template and save it to
youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py:
- ``` {.python}
- # coding: utf-8
- from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
- from .common import InfoExtractor
-
-
- class YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor):
- _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?yourextractor\.com/watch/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
- _TEST = {
- 'url': 'http://yourextractor.com/watch/42',
- 'md5': 'TODO: md5 sum of the first 10241 bytes of the video file (use --test)',
- 'info_dict': {
- 'id': '42',
- 'ext': 'mp4',
- 'title': 'Video title goes here',
- 'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
- # TODO more properties, either as:
- # * A value
- # * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
- # * A regular expression; start the string with re:
- # * Any Python type (for example int or float)
+ # coding: utf-8
+ from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+ from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+ class YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor):
+ _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?yourextractor\.com/watch/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
+ _TEST = {
+ 'url': 'http://yourextractor.com/watch/42',
+ 'md5': 'TODO: md5 sum of the first 10241 bytes of the video file (use --test)',
+ 'info_dict': {
+ 'id': '42',
+ 'ext': 'mp4',
+ 'title': 'Video title goes here',
+ 'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+ # 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)
+ 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'<h1>(.+?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
+ # TODO more code goes here, for example ...
+ title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1>(.+?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
- return {
- 'id': video_id,
- 'title': title,
- 'description': self._og_search_description(webpage),
- 'uploader': self._search_regex(r'<div[^>]+id="uploader"[^>]*>([^<]+)<', webpage, 'uploader', fatal=False),
- # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
- }
- ```
+ return {
+ 'id': video_id,
+ 'title': title,
+ 'description': self._og_search_description(webpage),
+ 'uploader': self._search_regex(r'<div[^>]+id="uploader"[^>]*>([^<]+)<', webpage, 'uploader', fatal=False),
+ # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
+ }
5. Add an import in youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py.
6. Run python test/test_download.py TestDownload.test_YourExtractor.
From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful
fashion, like this:
-``` {.python}
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-import youtube_dl
+ from __future__ import unicode_literals
+ import youtube_dl
-ydl_opts = {}
-with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
- ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
-```
+ ydl_opts = {}
+ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
+ ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of what can
be done, have a look at youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py. For a start, if you
(and a short message after the download is finished), and
downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file:
-``` {.python}
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-import youtube_dl
+ from __future__ import unicode_literals
+ import youtube_dl
-class MyLogger(object):
- def debug(self, msg):
- pass
+ class MyLogger(object):
+ def debug(self, msg):
+ pass
- def warning(self, msg):
- pass
+ def warning(self, msg):
+ pass
- def error(self, msg):
- print(msg)
+ def error(self, msg):
+ print(msg)
-def my_hook(d):
- if d['status'] == 'finished':
- print('Done downloading, now converting ...')
+ def my_hook(d):
+ if d['status'] == 'finished':
+ print('Done downloading, now converting ...')
-ydl_opts = {
- 'format': 'bestaudio/best',
- 'postprocessors': [{
- 'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
- 'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
- 'preferredquality': '192',
- }],
- 'logger': MyLogger(),
- 'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
-}
-with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
- ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
-```
+ ydl_opts = {
+ 'format': 'bestaudio/best',
+ 'postprocessors': [{
+ 'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
+ 'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
+ 'preferredquality': '192',
+ }],
+ 'logger': MyLogger(),
+ 'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
+ }
+ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
+ ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
Bugs and suggestions should be reported at:
-https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues . Unless you were prompted so
-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 on freenode.
-
-PLEASE INCLUDE THE FULL OUTPUT OF YOUTUBE-DL WHEN RUN WITH -v.
+https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues. Unless you were prompted so 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 on freenode
+(webchat).
+
+PLEASE INCLUDE THE FULL OUTPUT OF YOUTUBE-DL WHEN RUN WITH -v, i.e. ADD
+-v flag to YOUR COMMAND LINE, copy the WHOLE output and post it in the
+issue body wrapped in ``` for better formatting. It should look similar
+to this:
+
+ $ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
+ [debug] System config: []
+ [debug] User config: []
+ [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
+ [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: {}
+ ...
+
+DO NOT POST SCREENSHOTS OF VERBOSE LOG ONLY PLAIN TEXT IS ACCEPTABLE.
The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging
information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible
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're often
too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes
-misinterpretation likely. As a commiter myself, I often get frustrated
+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.
SITE SUPPORT REQUESTS MUST CONTAIN AN EXAMPLE URL. An example URL is a
URL you might want to download, like
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . There should be an obvious
+http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc. There should be an obvious
video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of
-a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/ ) is _not_ an example URL.
+a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/) is _not_ an example URL.
Are you using the latest version?
Is the issue already documented?
Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to
-open. Search at the top of the window or at
-https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues . 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.
+open. Search at the top of the window or browse the GitHub 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.
Why are existing options not enough?
youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
-This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton
-(https://github.com/dbbolton) and is likewise released into the public
-domain.
+This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton and is likewise
+released into the public domain.
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