network.add_option(
'--proxy', dest='proxy',
default=None, metavar='URL',
- help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable experimental '
+ help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable '
'SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. For example '
'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") '
'for direct connection')
'--geo-verification-proxy',
dest='geo_verification_proxy', default=None, metavar='URL',
help='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.')
+ 'The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the option is not present) is used for the actual downloading.')
geo.add_option(
'--cn-verification-proxy',
dest='cn_verification_proxy', default=None, metavar='URL',
geo.add_option(
'--geo-bypass',
action='store_true', dest='geo_bypass', default=True,
- help='Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (experimental)')
+ help='Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header')
geo.add_option(
'--no-geo-bypass',
action='store_false', dest='geo_bypass', default=True,
- help='Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (experimental)')
+ help='Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header')
geo.add_option(
'--geo-bypass-country', metavar='CODE',
dest='geo_bypass_country', default=None,
- help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code (experimental)')
+ help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code')
+ geo.add_option(
+ '--geo-bypass-ip-block', metavar='IP_BLOCK',
+ dest='geo_bypass_ip_block', default=None,
+ help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation')
selection = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Selection')
selection.add_option(
downloader.add_option(
'--xattr-set-filesize',
dest='xattr_set_filesize', action='store_true',
- help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size (experimental)')
+ help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size')
downloader.add_option(
'--hls-prefer-native',
dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true', default=None,
filesystem.add_option(
'-a', '--batch-file',
dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
- help='File containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
+ help="File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line. "
+ "Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored.")
filesystem.add_option(
'--id', default=False,
action='store_true', dest='useid', help='Use only video ID in file name')