X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/a4ca6ba1ad763074e063831f46d1996994ba557b..d3379076f5a45504e2d1a17d4ebed629f2da1b9f:/debian/youtube-dl.1 diff --git a/debian/youtube-dl.1 b/debian/youtube-dl.1 index 589bd7b..7d8657a 100644 --- a/debian/youtube-dl.1 +++ b/debian/youtube-dl.1 @@ -1,42 +1,304 @@ -.TH YOUTUBE-DL "1" "June 2007" "youtube-dl" "User Commands" -.SH NAME -youtube-dl \- download a video file from YouTube.com -.SH DESCRIPTION -usage: youtube\-dl [options] video_url -.SS "options:" -.TP -\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR -print this help text and exit -.TP -\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR -print program version and exit -.TP -\fB\-u\fR USERNAME, \fB\-\-username\fR=\fIUSERNAME\fR -account username -.TP -\fB\-p\fR PASSWORD, \fB\-\-password\fR=\fIPASSWORD\fR -account password -.TP -\fB\-o\fR FILE, \fB\-\-output\fR=\fIFILE\fR -output video file name -.TP -\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR -activates quiet mode -.TP -\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-simulate\fR -do not download video -.TP -\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-title\fR -use title in file name -.TP -\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-literal\fR -use literal title in file name -.TP -\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-netrc\fR -use .netrc authentication data -.TP -\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-get-url\fR -print final video URL only -.TP -\fB\-2\fR, \fB\-\-title-too\fR -used with -g, print title too +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.22 (Pod::Simple 3.07) +.\" +.\" Standard preamble: +.\" ======================================================================== +.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) +.if t .sp .5v +.if n .sp +.. +.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text +.ft CW +.nf +.ne \\$1 +.. +.de Ve \" End verbatim text +.ft R +.fi +.. +.\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will +.\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left +.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will +.\" give a nicer C++. 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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH "NAME" +youtube\-dl \- download videos from youtube.com +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +.Vb 1 +\& youtube\-dl [options] url ... +.Ve +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +youtube-dl is a script to download videos from youtube.com. +.PP +Once it is installed in your system, you should be able to call it from +the command line. Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl followed +by a video \s-1URL\s0 or identifier. As an example, consider: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& youtube\-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar" +.Ve +.PP +The video will be saved to the file \f(CW\*(C`foobar.flv\*(C'\fR in that example. Many +YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format and their extension would +be \f(CW\*(C`flv\*(C'\fR. Other videos are encoded in H.264 and these usually have the +extension \f(CW\*(C`mp4\*(C'\fR. In Linux and other unices, video players using a +recent version of ffmpeg can play them. That includes MPlayer, \s-1VLC\s0, +xine, among others. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.IX Header "OPTIONS" +\&\fByoutube-dl\fR accepts options in the following categories +.IP "\-h, \-\-help" 4 +.IX Item "-h, --help" +Print help text and exit. +.IP "\-v, \-\-version" 4 +.IX Item "-v, --version" +Print program version and exit. +.IP "\-U, \-\-update" 4 +.IX Item "-U, --update" +Update this program to the latest stable version. +.IP "\-i, \-\-ignore\-errors" 4 +.IX Item "-i, --ignore-errors" +Ignore errors during download and continue processing. +.IP "\-r \fBL\fR, \-\-rate\-limit=\fBL\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-r L, --rate-limit=L" +Limit the download speed to the specified maximum \fBL\fR (e.g., 50k or 44.6m). +.IP "\-R \fBR\fR, \-\-retries=\fBR\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-R R, --retries=R" +Number \fBR\fR of retries for a given download (default is 10). +.IP "\-u \fB\s-1UN\s0\fR, \-\-username=\fB\s-1UN\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-u UN, --username=UN" +Specify the youtube account username \fB\s-1UN\s0\fR. Some videos require an +account to be downloaded, mostly because they're flagged as mature +content. +.IP "\-p \fB\s-1PW\s0\fR, \-\-password=\fB\s-1PW\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-p PW, --password=PW" +Like the username, specifies the account password to be \fB\s-1PW\s0\fR. +.IP "\-n, \-\-netrc" 4 +.IX Item "-n, --netrc" +Get authentication data from the standard unix .netrc file on the user's +home directory. The machine name is youtube regarding this usage. +.IP "\-f \fB\s-1FMT\s0\fR, \-\-format=\fB\s-1FMT\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-f FMT, --format=FMT" +Specify the video format (quality) in which to download the video. Note +that not all videos are available in all formats. +.IP "\-b, \-\-best\-quality" 4 +.IX Item "-b, --best-quality" +This option is deprecated, does nothing currently, and is expected to be +removed in a next release, as it is the current behavior of youtube-dl. +.IP "\-m, \-\-mobile\-version" 4 +.IX Item "-m, --mobile-version" +Synonymous to the option \*(L"\-f 17\*(R", to download videos playable on some +mobile phones. +.IP "\-\-all\-formats" 4 +.IX Item "--all-formats" +Downloads all formats for which a video may be available. +.IP "\-\-max\-quality=\fB\s-1FMT\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "--max-quality=FMT" +Limit the maximum quality of the videos to downloads to \fB\s-1FMT\s0\fR. +.IP "\-q, \-\-quiet" 4 +.IX Item "-q, --quiet" +Activates quiet mode, avoiding many messages being written to the +terminal. +.IP "\-s, \-\-simulate" 4 +.IX Item "-s, --simulate" +Simulate the operation, but do not download the video. Useful for +testing. +.IP "\-g, \-\-get\-url" 4 +.IX Item "-g, --get-url" +Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but show the \s-1URL\s0 that would be +used to download the video. Can be used with other download tools like +wget or aria2c. +.IP "\-e, \-\-get\-title" 4 +.IX Item "-e, --get-title" +Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but show the title of the video +that would be downloaded. +.IP "\-\-get\-thumbnail" 4 +.IX Item "--get-thumbnail" +Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the \s-1URL\s0 of of the video's +thumbnail. +.IP "\-\-get\-description" 4 +.IX Item "--get-description" +Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the description of the +video. +.IP "\-\-no\-progress" 4 +.IX Item "--no-progress" +Do not print the progress bar during downloads. +.IP "\-t, \-\-title" 4 +.IX Item "-t, --title" +Use the title of the video in the file name used to download the video. +.IP "\-l, \-\-literal" 4 +.IX Item "-l, --literal" +Use the literal title of the video in file name used to download the +video. Can contain \*(L"weird\*(R" characters that are not filtered like with +the \-t option. +.IP "\-o \fB\s-1TPL\s0\fR, \-\-output=\fB\s-1TPL\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-o TPL, --output=TPL" +Specify a template \fB\s-1TPL\s0\fR for the names of the files to be created when +they are downloaded. The default filename is video_id.flv. But you can +also use the video title in the filename with the \f(CW\*(C`\-t\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`\-\-title\*(C'\fR +option, or preserve the literal title in the filename with the \f(CW\*(C`\-l\*(C'\fR or +\&\f(CW\*(C`\-\-literal\*(C'\fR option. +.IP "\-a \fBF\fR, \-\-batch\-file=\fBF\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-a F, --batch-file=F" +Specify the name of a file containing URLs of videos to download from +youtube in batch mode. The file must contain one \s-1URL\s0 per line. +.IP "\-w, \-\-no\-overwrites" 4 +.IX Item "-w, --no-overwrites" +Do no overwrite already existing files. +.IP "\-c, \-\-continue" 4 +.IX Item "-c, --continue" +Resume partially downloaded files. +.SH "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" +.IX Header "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" +The \-o option allows users to indicate a template for the output file +names. The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when +downloading a single file, like in youtube-dl \-o funny_video.flv +\&\*(L"http://some/video\*(R". However, it may contain special sequences that will +be replaced when downloading each video. +.PP +The special sequences have the format \f(CW\*(C`%(NAME)s\*(C'\fR. To clarify, that's a +percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, followed by a +lowercase S. Allowed names are: +.IP "id" 4 +.IX Item "id" +The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier. +.IP "url" 4 +.IX Item "url" +The sequence will be replaced by the video \s-1URL\s0. +.IP "uploader" 4 +.IX Item "uploader" +The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the person who uploaded +the video. +.IP "title" 4 +.IX Item "title" +The sequence will be replaced by the literal video title. +.IP "stitle" 4 +.IX Item "stitle" +The sequence will be replaced by a simplified video title, restricted to +alphanumeric characters and dashes. +.IP "ext" 4 +.IX Item "ext" +The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension (like \f(CW\*(C`flv\*(C'\fR +or \f(CW\*(C`mp4\*(C'\fR). +.IP "epoch" 4 +.IX Item "epoch" +The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating the file. +.PP +As you may have guessed, the default template is \f(CW\*(C`%(id)s.%(ext)s\*(C'\fR. When +some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates +like \f(CW\*(C`%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s\*(C'\fR. You can specify your own. +.SH "AUTHOR" +.IX Header "AUTHOR" +youtube-dl was written by Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez and many contributors +from all around the internet. This manpage was written by Rogerio Brito +.