X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=25844eb6dd756e9f15566266d93d99b57bd3c76d;hb=912e0b7e46d795df3ec1866f9b0ff071cca8d550;hp=542a7c26a1ce29cc7d5318d78e56dc59ceb206c1;hpb=6be5e46994ea5db76d7a2659260606898c265957;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 542a7c26a..25844eb6d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -236,7 +236,14 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. # CONFIGURATION -You can configure youtube-dl by placing default arguments (such as `--extract-audio --no-mtime` to always extract the audio and not copy the mtime) into `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and/or `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` and `C:\Users\\youtube-dl.conf`. +You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux, system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\\youtube-dl.conf`. For example, with the following configration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime and use proxy: +``` +--extract-audio +--no-mtime +--proxy 127.0.0.1:3128 +``` + +You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run. ### Authentication with `.netrc` file ###