--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 [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";
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means you're using an outdated version of Python.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.