X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=e01b71cff5290fbf4f50fadaa99a01d71813aa4a;hb=4c8f9c2577da2f4ba7300d44613599e96cde5c9f;hp=0bb7b791f58621c707c79c4afdc6a336ce02054d;hpb=ea01cdbf61c9a689e7914dd2d06371f3ef73b490;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0bb7b791f..e01b71cff 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -412,11 +412,19 @@ You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a c For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory: ``` +# Lines starting with # are comments + +# Always extract audio -x + +# Do not copy the mtime --no-mtime + +# Use this proxy --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128 + +# Save all videos under Movies directory in your home directory -o ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s -# Lines starting with # are comments ``` Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls thus there **must be no whitespace** after `-` or `--`, e.g. `-o` or `--proxy` but not `- o` or `-- proxy`. @@ -814,7 +822,7 @@ Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the opt 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/ru/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) (for Firefox). +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.