Merge pull request #5961 from dstftw/force-generic-extractor

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 4c9d39d9a475a9b23ee3d51a5cec222321e7e053..6aeca61ee5e099e80a5d98a893afb8adde72e1cd 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -145,11 +145,15 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     general.add_option(
         '--list-extractors',
         action='store_true', dest='list_extractors', default=False,
-        help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle')
+        help='List all supported extractors')
     general.add_option(
         '--extractor-descriptions',
         action='store_true', dest='list_extractor_descriptions', default=False,
         help='Output descriptions of all supported extractors')
+    general.add_option(
+        '--force-generic-extractor',
+        action='store_true', dest='force_generic_extractor', default=False,
+        help='Force extraction to use the generic extractor')
     general.add_option(
         '--default-search',
         dest='default_search', metavar='PREFIX',
@@ -537,7 +541,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     verbosity.add_option(
         '--dump-pages', '--dump-intermediate-pages',
         action='store_true', dest='dump_intermediate_pages', default=False,
-        help='Print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose)')
+        help='Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)')
     verbosity.add_option(
         '--write-pages',
         action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False,
@@ -637,7 +641,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     filesystem.add_option(
         '--write-annotations',
         action='store_true', dest='writeannotations', default=False,
-        help='Write video annotations to a .annotation file')
+        help='Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file')
     filesystem.add_option(
         '--load-info',
         dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
@@ -698,7 +702,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     postproc.add_option(
         '--embed-subs',
         action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
-        help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos)')
+        help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos)')
     postproc.add_option(
         '--embed-thumbnail',
         action='store_true', dest='embedthumbnail', default=False,
@@ -713,7 +717,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         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). '
+             'Additional templates: %(album)s, %(artist)s. '
              'Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a title like '
              '"Coldplay - Paradise"')
     postproc.add_option(
@@ -725,7 +729,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default='detect_or_warn',
         help='Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
              'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
-             'detect_or_warn(the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)')
+             'detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)')
     postproc.add_option(
         '--prefer-avconv',
         action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',