action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist',
default=False,
help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--mark-watched',
+ action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
+ help='Mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-mark-watched',
+ action='store_false', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
+ help='Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
general.add_option(
'--no-color', '--no-colors',
action='store_true', dest='no_color',
network.add_option(
'--proxy', dest='proxy',
default=None, metavar='URL',
- help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection')
+ help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable experimental '
+ 'SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. For example '
+ 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") '
+ 'for direct connection')
network.add_option(
'--socket-timeout',
dest='socket_timeout', type=float, default=None, metavar='SECONDS',
downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
downloader.add_option(
- '-r', '--rate-limit',
- dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT',
+ '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
+ dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)')
downloader.add_option(
'-R', '--retries',
dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--fragment-retries',
+ dest='fragment_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
+ help='Number of retries for a fragment (default is %default), or "infinite" (DASH only)')
downloader.add_option(
'--buffer-size',
dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',
help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental)')
downloader.add_option(
'--hls-prefer-native',
- dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true',
- help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental)')
+ dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true', default=None,
+ help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--hls-prefer-ffmpeg',
+ dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_false', default=None,
+ help='Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS downloader')
downloader.add_option(
'--hls-use-mpegts',
dest='hls_use_mpegts', action='store_true',
action='store_true', dest='writeannotations', default=False,
help='Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file')
filesystem.add_option(
- '--load-info',
+ '--load-info-json', '--load-info',
dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
filesystem.add_option(
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-subs',
action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
- help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos)')
+ help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)')
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-thumbnail',
action='store_true', dest='embedthumbnail', default=False,