'--playlist-end',
dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', default=None, type=int,
help='playlist video to end at (default is last)')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--playlist-items',
+ dest='playlist_items', metavar='ITEM_SPEC', default=None,
+ help='playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist seperated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.')
selection.add_option(
'--match-title',
dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',
' You can filter the video results by putting a condition in'
' brackets, as in -f "best[height=720]"'
' (or -f "[filesize>10M]"). '
- ' This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr, and vbr'
+ ' This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr, vbr, and fps'
' and the comparisons <, <=, >, >=, =, != .'
' Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you'
' put a question mark (?) after the operator.'
downloader.add_option(
'-R', '--retries',
dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
- help='number of retries (default is %default)')
+ help='number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".')
downloader.add_option(
'--buffer-size',
dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',
'--playlist-reverse',
action='store_true',
help='Download playlist videos in reverse order')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--xattr-set-filesize',
+ dest='xattr_set_filesize', action='store_true',
+ help='(experimental) set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize')
downloader.add_option(
'--external-downloader',
dest='external_downloader', metavar='COMMAND',
postproc.add_option(
'--fixup',
metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default='detect_or_warn',
- help='(experimental) Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
+ help='Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
- 'detect_or_warn(check whether we can do anything about it, 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',