X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=2bea609bfc397940d369628d27a8142ddcdbf867;hb=84774661254933dab2a3788485c798bd264b0493;hp=1ba1486d2d2926259dcdfd2d7ad4fcd987ed1c77;hpb=77477fa4c916599e7eaa236a3f3eb5703923cf91;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1ba1486d2..2bea609bf 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,24 @@ -% YOUTUBE-DL(1) - -# NAME youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms # SYNOPSIS **youtube-dl** [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] +# INSTALLATION + +To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: + + sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl + sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl + +If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget: + + sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2014.05.13/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl + sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl + +Windows users can [download a .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in their home directory or any other location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29). + +Alternatively, refer to the developer instructions below for how to check out and work with the git repository. For further options, including PGP signatures, see https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html . + # DESCRIPTION **youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version @@ -250,6 +263,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. default --embed-subs embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos) + --embed-thumbnail embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art --add-metadata write metadata to the video file --xattrs write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards) @@ -457,7 +471,7 @@ If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the *complete* output of youtube-dl when called with the -v flag. The error message you get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would not believe how many of our bug reports do not contain this information. -Site support requests must contain an example URL. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/ ) is *not* an example URL. +Site support requests **must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/ ) is *not* an example URL. ### Are you using the latest version?