Improve geo bypass mechanism

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 38439c97165e18e37d9bf4cd3ebf906f099c9b30..f3f8f23b6b8b623194fe4250a53bcf45c9d326c8 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -249,6 +249,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--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(
@@ -478,6 +482,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--no-resize-buffer',
         action='store_true', dest='noresizebuffer', default=False,
         help='Do not automatically adjust the buffer size. By default, the buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of SIZE.')
+    downloader.add_option(
+        '--http-chunk-size',
+        dest='http_chunk_size', metavar='SIZE', default=None,
+        help='Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default is disabled). '
+             'May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver (experimental)')
     downloader.add_option(
         '--test',
         action='store_true', dest='test', default=False,
@@ -671,7 +680,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     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')
@@ -847,7 +857,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     postproc.add_option(
         '--convert-subs', '--convert-subtitles',
         metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertsubtitles', default=None,
-        help='Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)')
+        help='Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc)')
 
     parser.add_option_group(general)
     parser.add_option_group(network)