--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
%(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented
number, %(ext)s for the filename extension,
%(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD),
- %(provider)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe,
+ %(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)
--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
The error
File "youtube-dl", line 2
- SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
+ SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\93' ...
means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.