At the moment, this is only supported by YouTube.
proxy: URL of the proxy server to use
geo_verification_proxy: URL of the proxy to use for IP address verification
- on geo-restricted sites. (Experimental)
+ on geo-restricted sites.
socket_timeout: Time to wait for unresponsive hosts, in seconds
bidi_workaround: Work around buggy terminals without bidirectional text
support, using fridibi
- "warn": only emit a warning
- "detect_or_warn": check whether we can do anything
about it, warn otherwise (default)
- source_address: (Experimental) Client-side IP address to bind to.
+ source_address: Client-side IP address to bind to.
call_home: Boolean, true iff we are allowed to contact the
youtube-dl servers for debugging.
sleep_interval: Number of seconds to sleep before each download when
match_filter_func in utils.py is one example for this.
no_color: Do not emit color codes in output.
geo_bypass: Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For
- HTTP header (experimental)
+ HTTP header
geo_bypass_country:
Two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code that will be used for
explicit geographic restriction bypassing via faking
- X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (experimental)
+ X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
geo_bypass_ip_block:
IP range in CIDR notation that will be used similarly to
- geo_bypass_country (experimental)
+ geo_bypass_country
The following options determine which downloader is picked:
external_downloader: Executable of the external downloader to call.
http_chunk_size.
The following options are used by the post processors:
- prefer_ffmpeg: If True, use ffmpeg instead of avconv if both are available,
- otherwise prefer avconv.
+ prefer_ffmpeg: If False, use avconv instead of ffmpeg if both are available,
+ otherwise prefer ffmpeg.
postprocessor_args: A list of additional command-line arguments for the
postprocessor.