X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=905c1b73f9722e89cc6c0c9b5970be2f587cfbb9;hb=a9ee26021759f4f1a17d3c9482d85e68a45b2360;hp=ead6e3dbf3867b9c65c8ef3656c88713316da1a9;hpb=ec85ded83cbfa652ba94cb080aab52d8b270212a;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ead6e3dbf..905c1b73f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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: