'Takuya Tsuchida',
'Sergey M.',
'Michael Orlitzky',
+ 'Chris Gahan',
)
__license__ = 'Public Domain'
from .extractor import gen_extractors
from .version import __version__
from .YoutubeDL import YoutubeDL
-from .PostProcessor import (
+from .postprocessor import (
FFmpegMetadataPP,
FFmpegVideoConvertor,
FFmpegExtractAudioPP,
FFmpegEmbedSubtitlePP,
+ XAttrMetadataPP,
)
general.add_option('--no-check-certificate', action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False, help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.')
general.add_option(
'--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR',
- help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl .')
+ help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.')
general.add_option(
'--no-cache-dir', action='store_const', const=None, dest='cachedir',
help='Disable filesystem caching')
general.add_option(
'--socket-timeout', dest='socket_timeout',
- type=float, default=None, help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
+ type=float, default=None, help=u'Time to wait before giving up, in seconds')
general.add_option(
'--bidi-workaround', dest='bidi_workaround', action='store_true',
help=u'Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH')
selection.add_option('--min-filesize', metavar='SIZE', dest='min_filesize', help="Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)", default=None)
selection.add_option('--max-filesize', metavar='SIZE', dest='max_filesize', help="Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)", default=None)
selection.add_option('--date', metavar='DATE', dest='date', help='download only videos uploaded in this date', default=None)
- selection.add_option('--datebefore', metavar='DATE', dest='datebefore', help='download only videos uploaded before this date', default=None)
- selection.add_option('--dateafter', metavar='DATE', dest='dateafter', help='download only videos uploaded after this date', default=None)
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--datebefore', metavar='DATE', dest='datebefore', default=None,
+ help='download only videos uploaded on or before this date (i.e. inclusive)')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--dateafter', metavar='DATE', dest='dateafter', default=None,
+ help='download only videos uploaded on or after this date (i.e. inclusive)')
selection.add_option(
'--min-views', metavar='COUNT', dest='min_views',
default=None, type=int,
postproc.add_option('--embed-subs', action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
help='embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos)')
postproc.add_option('--add-metadata', action='store_true', dest='addmetadata', default=False,
- help='add metadata to the files')
+ help='write metadata to the video file')
+ postproc.add_option('--xattrs', action='store_true', dest='xattrs', default=False,
+ help='write metadata to the video file\'s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)')
+ postproc.add_option('--prefer-avconv', action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',
+ help='Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the postprocessors (default)')
+ postproc.add_option('--prefer-ffmpeg', action='store_true', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',
+ help='Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the postprocessors')
parser.add_option_group(general)
sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
all_urls = batchurls + args
all_urls = [url.strip() for url in all_urls]
+ _enc = preferredencoding()
+ all_urls = [url.decode(_enc, 'ignore') if isinstance(url, bytes) else url for url in all_urls]
extractors = gen_extractors()
'socket_timeout': opts.socket_timeout,
'bidi_workaround': opts.bidi_workaround,
'debug_printtraffic': opts.debug_printtraffic,
+ 'prefer_ffmpeg': opts.prefer_ffmpeg,
}
with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.add_post_processor(FFmpegVideoConvertor(preferedformat=opts.recodevideo))
if opts.embedsubtitles:
ydl.add_post_processor(FFmpegEmbedSubtitlePP(subtitlesformat=opts.subtitlesformat))
+ if opts.xattrs:
+ ydl.add_post_processor(XAttrMetadataPP())
# Update version
if opts.update_self: