X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=ea9131c3ab88e944c34b7bf50dc87fad8113bc20;hb=dc6a9e41955219daa4a353846a2183f6b5c910e5;hp=0f4088adc204f64c35a4121993ed0fcfd7cf3ba7;hpb=7e7a028aa4108f5ce455fda88dfdcee13b3b7578;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0f4088adc..ea9131c3a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [mpv](https:// ### I extracted a video URL with `-g`, but it does not play on another machine / in my webbrowser. -It depends a lot on the service. In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come from the same IP address and with the same cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl. +It depends a lot on the service. In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come from the same IP address and with the same cookies and/or HTTP headers. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl. You can also get necessary cookies and HTTP headers from JSON output obtained with `--dump-json`. It may be beneficial to use IPv6; in some cases, the restrictions are only applied to IPv4. Some services (sometimes only for a subset of videos) do not restrict the video URL by IP address, cookie, or user-agent, but these are the exception rather than the rule. @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ If you want to create a build of youtube-dl yourself, you'll need ### Adding support for a new site -If you want to add support for a new site, first of all **make sure** this site is **not dedicated to [copyright infringement](#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. youtube-dl does **not support** such sites thus pull requests adding support for them **will be rejected**. +If you want to add support for a new site, first of all **make sure** this site is **not dedicated to [copyright infringement](README.md#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. youtube-dl does **not support** such sites thus pull requests adding support for them **will be rejected**. After you have ensured this site is distributing it's content legally, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):