# DESCRIPTION
**youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from
YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
-2.x (x being at least 6), and it is not platform specific. It should work in
-your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
+2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on
+your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
# OPTIONS
--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
--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)
- Filesystem Options:
+## Filesystem Options:
-t, --title use title in file name
--id use video ID in file name
-l, --literal [deprecated] alias of --title
--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:
+## 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-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", 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)
+ --recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if necessary
+ (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm)
-k, --keep-video keeps 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-
# 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 `~/.local/config/youtube-dl.conf`.
+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.conf`.
# OUTPUT TEMPLATE
The error
File "youtube-dl", line 2
- SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\93' ...
+ SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.
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