## OPTIONS
-h, --help print this help text and exit
- -v, --version print program version 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)
--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
### Post-processing Options:
--extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires
ffmpeg and ffprobe)
- --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default
+ --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav";
+ best by default
--audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default
-k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post-
processing; the video is erased by default
### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
-The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file.
+The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl.
### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info