-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:
+ 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
caseless sub-string)
--max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
-## Filesystem Options:
+ 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), and
- %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to
- stdout.
+ %(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
--write-description write video description to a .description file
--write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file
-## Verbosity / Simulation Options:
+ Verbosity / Simulation Options:
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything
to disk
--console-title display progress in console titlebar
-v, --verbose print various debugging information
-## Video Format Options:
+ 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
--srt-lang LANG language of the closed captions to download
(optional) use IETF language tags like 'en'
-## Authentication Options:
+ 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
+ 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 bitrate specification, 128k 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
youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
+### ERROR: unable to download video ###
+
+youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
+
+### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ###
+
+The error
+
+ File "youtube-dl", line 2
+ SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\93' ...
+
+means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.
+
+To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out like this:
+
+ git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git
+ cd youtube-dl
+ python -m youtube_dl --help
+
+Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore.
+
+### What is this binary file? Where has the code gone?
+
+Since June 2012 (#342) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might need renaming to `youtube-dl.zip` first on some systems) or clone the git repo to see the code. If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the `__main__.py` file. To recompile the executable, run `make compile`.
+
+### The exe throws a *Runtime error from Visual C++*
+
+To run the exe you need to install first the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29).
+
# COPYRIGHT
youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
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