X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=4f677d0cc0c7c51d25a884356c48694dd6aaf5f7;hb=c0af11abeeaad75f4387ad77adc751715dfc0cf4;hp=3bfa2c680f8af0e9a359c11224248e29f0fd02e0;hpb=dc48a3540487d6e3405721a586a4237dd9e5d19c;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3bfa2c680..4f677d0cc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.ex You can also use pip: - sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl + sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it. See the [pypi page](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/youtube_dl) for more information. @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo avprobe) --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav"; - "best" by default + "best" by default; No effect without -x --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K @@ -446,6 +446,8 @@ Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches u You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run. +You can also use `--config-location` if you want to use custom configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run. + ### Authentication with `.netrc` file You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you: @@ -839,7 +841,7 @@ Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`. In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg) (for Chrome) or [Export Cookies](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) (for Firefox). -Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows, `LF` (`\n`) for Linux and `CR` (`\r`) for Mac OS. `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format. +Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows and `LF` (`\n`) for Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, Mac OS, etc.). `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format. Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare). @@ -961,7 +963,7 @@ After you have ensured this site is distributing its content legally, you can fo 'id': '42', 'ext': 'mp4', 'title': 'Video title goes here', - 'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$', + 'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$', # TODO more properties, either as: # * A value # * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5: @@ -1148,7 +1150,7 @@ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) ``` -Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L128-L278). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object. +Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L129-L279). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object. Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file: