-Windows users can [download a .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in their home directory or any other location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29).
+Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in any location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
OS X users can install **youtube-dl** with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/).
OS X users can install **youtube-dl** with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/).
@@ -85,9+85,11 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
--no-color Do not emit color codes in output
## Network Options:
--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
+ --proxy URL 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
--socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
(experimental)
--socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
(experimental)
@@ -415,7+417,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
# CONFIGURATION
# CONFIGURATION
-You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`.
+You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`.
For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory:
```
For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory:
```
@@ -431,7+433,7 @@ You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for
### Authentication with `.netrc` file
### Authentication with `.netrc` file
-You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a`.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only:
+You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a`.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only:
```
touch $HOME/.netrc
chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
```
touch $HOME/.netrc
chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
@@ -465,7+467,7 @@ The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single f
- `display_id`: An alternative identifier for the video
- `uploader`: Full name of the video uploader
- `license`: License name the video is licensed under
- `display_id`: An alternative identifier for the video
- `uploader`: Full name of the video uploader
- `license`: License name the video is licensed under
- - `creator`: The main artist who created the video
+ - `creator`: The creator of the video
- `release_date`: The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
- `timestamp`: UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
- `upload_date`: Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
- `release_date`: The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
- `timestamp`: UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available