## 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 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in
+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,
which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
## 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)
-R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10)
--dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
+ --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they
+ would handle
### Video Selection:
--playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
sub-string)
--reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or
caseless sub-string)
+ --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
### Filesystem Options:
-t, --title use title 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
+ -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.
-a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
-w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files
-c, --continue resume partially downloaded files
- --cookies FILE file to dump cookie jar to
+ --no-continue do not resume partially downloaded files (restart
+ from beginning)
+ --cookies FILE file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
--no-part do not use .part files
--no-mtime do not use the Last-modified header to set the file
modification time
### Verbosity / Simulation Options:
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
- -s, --simulate do not download video
+ -s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything
+ to disk
+ --skip-download do not download the video
-g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL
-e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title
--get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
--get-description simulate, quiet but print video description
--get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename
+ --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" or "mp3"; best by default
+ 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
+ -k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post-
+ processing; the video is erased by default
## FAQ
### 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
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