[options] Handle special characters in argv (Fixes #5157)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index a4ca8adc42ba9222da13c581c08ae8e7af6794fe..35c7e5fb3507f5e846e166c5f6c15f6cf637498a 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         action='store_true', dest='verbose', default=False,
         help='print various debugging information')
     verbosity.add_option(
-        '--dump-intermediate-pages',
+        '--dump-pages', '--dump-intermediate-pages',
         action='store_true', dest='dump_intermediate_pages', default=False,
         help='print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose)')
     verbosity.add_option(
@@ -735,6 +735,15 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--add-metadata',
         action='store_true', dest='addmetadata', default=False,
         help='write metadata to the video file')
+    postproc.add_option(
+        '--metadata-from-title',
+        metavar='FORMAT', dest='metafromtitle',
+        help='parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title. '
+             'The format syntax is the same as --output, '
+             'the parsed parameters replace existing values. '
+             'Additional templates: %(album), %(artist). '
+             'Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a title like '
+             '"Coldplay - Paradise"')
     postproc.add_option(
         '--xattrs',
         action='store_true', dest='xattrs', default=False,
@@ -785,6 +794,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
             write_string('[debug] Override config: ' + repr(overrideArguments) + '\n')
     else:
         command_line_conf = sys.argv[1:]
+        # Workaround for Python 2.x, where argv is a byte list
+        if sys.version_info < (3,):
+            command_line_conf = [
+                a.decode('utf-8', 'replace') for a in command_line_conf]
+
         if '--ignore-config' in command_line_conf:
             system_conf = []
             user_conf = []