which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
## OPTIONS
- -h, --help print this help text and exit
- -v, --version print program version and exit
- -U, --update update this program to latest stable version
- -i, --ignore-errors continue on download errors
- -r LIMIT, --rate-limit=LIMIT
- download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
- -R RETRIES, --retries=RETRIES
- number of retries (default is 10)
- --playlist-start=NUMBER
- playlist video to start at (default is 1)
- --playlist-end=NUMBER
- playlist video to end at (default is last)
- --dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
+ -h, --help print this help text and exit
+ -v, --version print program version and exit
+ -U, --update update this program to latest stable version
+ -i, --ignore-errors continue on download errors
+ -r, --rate-limit LIMIT download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
+ -R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10)
+ --playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
+ --playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last)
+ --dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
-### Authentication Options
- -u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME
- account username
- -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD
- account password
- -n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
+### Filesystem Options:
+ -t, --title use title in file name
+ -l, --literal use literal title in file name
+ -A, --auto-number number downloaded files starting from 00000
+ -o, --output TEMPLATE output filename template
+ -a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
+ -w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files
+ -c, --continue resume partially downloaded files
+ --cookies FILE file to dump cookie jar to
+ --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
-### Video Format Options
- -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
- video format code
- --all-formats download all available video formats
- --max-quality=FORMAT
- highest quality format to download
+### Verbosity / Simulation Options:
+ -q, --quiet activates quiet mode
+ -s, --simulate do not download video
+ -g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL
+ -e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title
+ --get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
+ --get-description simulate, quiet but print video description
+ --get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename
+ --no-progress do not print progress bar
+ --console-title display progress in console titlebar
-### Verbosity / Simulation Options
- -q, --quiet activates quiet mode
- -s, --simulate do not download video
- -g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL
- -e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title
- --get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
- --get-description simulate, quiet but print video description
- --get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename
- --no-progress do not print progress bar
- --console-title display progress in console titlebar
+### Video Format Options:
+ -f, --format FORMAT video format code
+ --all-formats download all available video formats
+ --max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download
-### Filesystem Options
- -t, --title use title in file name
- -l, --literal use literal title in file name
- -A, --auto-number number downloaded files starting from 00000
- -o TEMPLATE, --output=TEMPLATE
- output filename template
- -a FILE, --batch-file=FILE
- file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
- -w, --no-overwrites
- do not overwrite files
- -c, --continue resume partially downloaded files
- --cookies=FILE file to dump cookie jar to
- --no-part do not use .part files
- --no-mtime do not use the Last-modified header to set the file
- modification time
+### Authentication Options:
+ -u, --username USERNAME account username
+ -p, --password PASSWORD account password
+ -n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
### Post-processing Options:
- --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires
- ffmpeg and ffprobe)
- --audio-format=FORMAT
- "best", "aac" or "mp3"; best by default
+ --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires
+ ffmpeg and ffprobe)
+ --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac" or "mp3"; best by default
## COPYRIGHT
**youtube-dl**: Copyright © 2006-2011 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez. The program is
## BUGS
Bugs should be reported at: <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues>
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