Merge pull request #801 from expleo/add_referer_support

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / __init__.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 16e74785f6f0996cef56ff5d6d628f57e3790394..d491402c6a9702c57dbbd4122924b22f2ede2177 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     general.add_option('--user-agent',
             dest='user_agent', help='specify a custom user agent', metavar='UA')
     general.add_option('--referer',
-            dest='referer', help='specify a custom referer', metavar='REF', default=None)
+            dest='referer', help='specify a custom referer, use if the video access is restricted to one domain',
+            metavar='REF', default=None)
     general.add_option('--list-extractors',
             action='store_true', dest='list_extractors',
             help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle', default=False)