'--geo-verification-proxy',
dest='geo_verification_proxy', default=None, metavar='URL',
help='Use this proxy to verify the IP address for some geo-restricted sites. '
- 'The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the options is not present) is used for the actual downloading.')
+ 'The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the option is not present) is used for the actual downloading.')
geo.add_option(
'--cn-verification-proxy',
dest='cn_verification_proxy', default=None, metavar='URL',
'--geo-bypass-country', metavar='CODE',
dest='geo_bypass_country', default=None,
help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code (experimental)')
+ geo.add_option(
+ '--geo-bypass-ip-block', metavar='IP_BLOCK',
+ dest='geo_bypass_ip_block', default=None,
+ help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation (experimental)')
selection = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Selection')
selection.add_option(
filesystem.add_option(
'-a', '--batch-file',
dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
- help='File containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
+ help="File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line. "
+ "Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored.")
filesystem.add_option(
'--id', default=False,
action='store_true', dest='useid', help='Use only video ID in file name')