- -h, --help print this help text and exit
- --version print program version and exit
- -U, --update update this program to latest 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)
- --dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
- --user-agent UA specify a custom user agent
- --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they
- would handle
-
- Video Selection:
- --playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
- --playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last)
- --match-title REGEX download only matching titles (regex or caseless
- sub-string)
- --reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or
- caseless sub-string)
- --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
-
- Filesystem Options:
- -t, --title use title in file name
- --id use video ID 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. Use %(stitle)s to get the
- title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name,
- %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented
- number, %(ext)s for the filename extension,
- %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD),
- %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe,
- etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% for a literal
- percent. Use - to output to stdout.
- -a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
- -w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files
- -c, --continue resume partially downloaded files
- --no-continue do not resume partially downloaded files (restart
- from beginning)
- --cookies FILE file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
- --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
-
- Verbosity / Simulation Options:
- -q, --quiet activates quiet mode
- -s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything
- to disk
- --skip-download do not download the 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
- --get-format simulate, quiet but print output format
- --no-progress do not print progress bar
- --console-title display progress in console titlebar
- -v, --verbose print various debugging information
-
- Video Format Options:
- -f, --format FORMAT video format code
- --all-formats download all available video formats
- --prefer-free-formats prefer free video formats unless a specific one is
- requested
- --max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download
- -F, --list-formats list all available formats (currently youtube only)
- --write-srt write video closed captions to a .srt file
- (currently youtube only)
- --srt-lang LANG language of the closed captions to download
- (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en'
-
- Authentication Options:
- -u, --username USERNAME account username
- -p, --password PASSWORD account password
- -n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-
- Post-processing Options:
- -x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires
- ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)
- --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav";
- best by default
- --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification, insert a
- value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a
- specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
- -k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post-
- processing; the video is erased by default
+ -h, --help Print this help text and exit
+ --version Print program version and exit
+ -U, --update Update this program to latest version. Make sure that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed)
+ -i, --ignore-errors Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist
+ --abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos (in the playlist or the command line) if an error occurs
+ --dump-user-agent Display the current browser identification
+ --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle
+ --extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported extractors
+ --default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for youtube-dl "large apple".
+ Use the value "auto" to let youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The
+ default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching.
+ --ignore-config Do not read configuration files. When given in the global configuration file /etc/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user configuration
+ in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt on Windows)
+ --flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.
+ --no-color Do not emit color codes in output
+
+## Network Options:
+ --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection
+ --socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
+ --source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to (experimental)
+ -4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4 (experimental)
+ -6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6 (experimental)
+ --cn-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for some Chinese sites. The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the options is
+ not present) is used for the actual downloading. (experimental)
+
+## Video Selection:
+ --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
+ --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
+ --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist seperated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8"
+ if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will
+ download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
+ --match-title REGEX Download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)
+ --reject-title REGEX Skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)
+ --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
+ --min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
+ --max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
+ --date DATE Download only videos uploaded in this date
+ --datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before this date (i.e. inclusive)
+ --dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after this date (i.e. inclusive)
+ --min-views COUNT Do not download any videos with less than COUNT views
+ --max-views COUNT Do not download any videos with more than COUNT views
+ --match-filter FILTER Generic video filter (experimental). Specify any key (see help for -o for a list of available keys) to match if the key is present,
+ !key to check if the key is not present,key > NUMBER (like "comment_count > 12", also works with >=, <, <=, !=, =) to compare against
+ a number, and & to require multiple matches. Values which are not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (?) after the
+ operator.For example, to only match videos that have been liked more than 100 times and disliked less than 50 times (or the dislike
+ functionality is not available at the given service), but who also have a description, use --match-filter "like_count > 100 &
+ dislike_count <? 50 & description" .
+ --no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist.
+ --yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist.
+ --age-limit YEARS Download only videos suitable for the given age
+ --download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.
+ --include-ads Download advertisements as well (experimental)
+
+## Download Options:
+ -r, --rate-limit LIMIT Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
+ -R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite".
+ --buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K) (default is 1024)
+ --no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer size. By default, the buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of SIZE.
+ --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
+ --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental)
+ --hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental)
+ --external-downloader COMMAND Use the specified external downloader. Currently supports aria2c,curl,wget
+ --external-downloader-args ARGS Give these arguments to the external downloader
+
+## Filesystem Options:
+ -a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
+ --id Use only video ID in file name
+ -o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template. Use %(title)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the uploader
+ nickname if different, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, %(format)s for
+ the format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or "HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of the format (like YouTube's itags: "137"),
+ %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video id,
+ %(playlist_title)s, %(playlist_id)s, or %(playlist)s (=title if present, ID otherwise) for the playlist the video is in,
+ %(playlist_index)s for the position in the playlist. %(height)s and %(width)s for the width and height of the video format.
+ %(resolution)s for a textual description of the resolution of the video format. %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to stdout.
+ Can also be used to download to a different directory, for example with -o '/my/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
+ --autonumber-size NUMBER Specify the number of digits in %(autonumber)s when it is present in output filename template or --auto-number option is given
+ --restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames
+ -A, --auto-number [deprecated; use -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" ] Number downloaded files starting from 00000
+ -t, --title [deprecated] Use title in file name (default)
+ -l, --literal [deprecated] Alias of --title
+ -w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite files
+ -c, --continue Force resume of partially downloaded files. By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible.
+ --no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded files (restart from beginning)
+ --no-part Do not use .part files - write directly into output file
+ --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
+ --write-annotations Write video annotations to a .annotation file
+ --load-info FILE JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)
+ --cookies FILE File to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
+ --cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl
+ or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may
+ change.
+ --no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
+ --rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
+
+## Thumbnail images:
+ --write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
+ --write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
+ --list-thumbnails Simulate and list all available thumbnail formats
+
+## Verbosity / Simulation Options:
+ -q, --quiet Activate quiet mode
+ --no-warnings Ignore warnings
+ -s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write anything to disk
+ --skip-download Do not download the video
+ -g, --get-url Simulate, quiet but print URL
+ -e, --get-title Simulate, quiet but print title
+ --get-id Simulate, quiet but print id
+ --get-thumbnail Simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
+ --get-description Simulate, quiet but print video description
+ --get-duration Simulate, quiet but print video length
+ --get-filename Simulate, quiet but print output filename
+ --get-format Simulate, quiet but print output format
+ -j, --dump-json Simulate, quiet but print JSON information. See --output for a description of available keys.
+ -J, --dump-single-json Simulate, quiet but print JSON information for each command-line argument. If the URL refers to a playlist, dump the whole playlist
+ information in a single line.
+ --print-json Be quiet and print the video information as JSON (video is still being downloaded).
+ --newline Output progress bar as new lines
+ --no-progress Do not print progress bar
+ --console-title Display progress in console titlebar
+ -v, --verbose Print various debugging information
+ --dump-pages Print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose)
+ --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems
+ --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
+ -C, --call-home Contact the youtube-dl server for debugging
+ --no-call-home Do NOT contact the youtube-dl server for debugging
+
+## Workarounds:
+ --encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
+ --no-check-certificate Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
+ --prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video. (Currently supported only for YouTube)
+ --user-agent UA Specify a custom user agent
+ --referer URL Specify a custom referer, use if the video access is restricted to one domain
+ --add-header FIELD:VALUE Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon ':'. You can use this option multiple times
+ --bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH
+ --sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each download.
+
+## Video Format Options:
+ -f, --format FORMAT Video format code, specify the order of preference using slashes, as in -f 22/17/18 . Instead of format codes, you can select by
+ extension for the extensions aac, m4a, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, webm. You can also use the special names "best", "bestvideo", "bestaudio",
+ "worst". You can 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 =, != . 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. By default, youtube-dl will pick the best quality.
+ Use commas to download multiple audio 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.
+ --all-formats Download all available video formats
+ --prefer-free-formats Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested
+ --max-quality FORMAT Highest quality format to download
+ -F, --list-formats List all available formats
+ --youtube-skip-dash-manifest Do not download the DASH manifest on YouTube videos
+ --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv.Ignored if no
+ merge is required
+
+## Subtitle Options:
+ --write-sub Write subtitle file
+ --write-auto-sub Write automatic subtitle file (YouTube only)
+ --all-subs Download all the available subtitles of the video
+ --list-subs List all available subtitles for the video
+ --sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format, accepts formats 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'
+
+## Authentication Options:
+ -u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
+ -p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left out, youtube-dl will ask interactively.
+ -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor auth code
+ -n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
+ --video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, smotri)
+
+## Post-processing Options:
+ -x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)
+ --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav"; "best" by default
+ --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default
+ 5)
+ --recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv)
+ -k, --keep-video Keep the video file on disk after the post-processing; the video is erased by default
+ --no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files; the post-processed files are overwritten by default
+ --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos)
+ --embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
+ --add-metadata Write metadata to the video file
+ --metadata-from-title FORMAT Parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title. The format syntax is the same as --output, the parsed
+ parameters replace existing values. Additional templates: %(album), %(artist). Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s -
+ %(title)s" matches a title like "Coldplay - Paradise"
+ --xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)
+ --fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), detect_or_warn(the default;
+ fix file if we can, warn otherwise)
+ --prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the postprocessors (default)
+ --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the postprocessors
+ --ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory.
+ --exec CMD Execute a command on the file after downloading, similar to find's -exec syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm
+ {}'
+ --convert-subtitles FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)
+
+# CONFIGURATION
+
+You can configure youtube-dl by placing default arguments (such as `--extract-audio --no-mtime` to always extract the audio and not copy the mtime) into `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and/or `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` and `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`.
+
+# 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 "http://some/video"`. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences have the format `%(NAME)s`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, 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 name or the id of the playlist that contains the video.
+ - `playlist_index`: The index of the video in the playlist, a five-digit number.
+
+The current default template is `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`.
+
+In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system 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
+```
+
+# VIDEO SELECTION
+
+Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options `--date`, `--datebefore` or `--dateafter`, they accept dates in two formats:
+
+ - Absolute dates: Dates in the format `YYYYMMDD`.
+ - Relative dates: Dates in the format `(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?`
+
+Examples:
+
+```bash
+# 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
+
+$ # will only download the videos uploaded in the 200x decade
+$ youtube-dl --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231
+```