--mark-watched Mark videos watched (YouTube only)
--no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)
--no-color Do not emit color codes in output
- --abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading when some fragment is not
- available
## Network Options:
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
string (--proxy "") for direct connection
--socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
- (experimental)
-4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
- (experimental)
-6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
- (experimental)
--geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
some geo-restricted sites. The default
proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
options is not present) is used for the
- actual downloading. (experimental)
+ actual downloading.
## Video Selection:
--playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
COUNT views
--max-views COUNT Do not download any videos with more than
COUNT views
- --match-filter FILTER Generic video filter (experimental).
- Specify any key (see help for -o for a list
- of available keys) to match if the key is
- present, !key to check if the key is not
- present,key > NUMBER (like "comment_count >
- 12", also works with >=, <, <=, !=, =) to
- compare against a number, and & to require
- multiple matches. Values which are not
- known are excluded unless you put a
- question mark (?) after the operator.For
- example, to only match videos that have
- been liked more than 100 times and disliked
- less than 50 times (or the dislike
- functionality is not available at the given
- service), but who also have a description,
- use --match-filter "like_count > 100 &
- dislike_count <? 50 & description" .
+ --match-filter FILTER Generic video filter. Specify any key (see
+ help for -o for a list of available keys)
+ to match if the key is present, !key to
+ check if the key is not present,key >
+ NUMBER (like "comment_count > 12", also
+ works with >=, <, <=, !=, =) to compare
+ against a number, and & to require multiple
+ matches. Values which are not known are
+ excluded unless you put a question mark (?)
+ after the operator.For example, to only
+ match videos that have been liked more than
+ 100 times and disliked less than 50 times
+ (or the dislike functionality is not
+ available at the given service), but who
+ also have a description, use --match-filter
+ "like_count > 100 & dislike_count <? 50 &
+ description" .
--no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers
to a video and a playlist.
--yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to
only)
--skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments (DASH and
hlsnative only)
+ --abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading when some fragment is not
+ available
--buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
(default is 1024)
--no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer
--autonumber-size NUMBER Specify the number of digits in
%(autonumber)s when it is present in output
filename template or --auto-number option
- is given
+ is given (default is 5)
+ --autonumber-start NUMBER Specify the start value for %(autonumber)s
+ (default is 1)
--restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
filenames
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
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 `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you:
In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg) (for Chrome) or [Export Cookies](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) (for Firefox).
-Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows, `LF` (`\n`) for Linux and `CR` (`\r`) for Mac OS. `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format.
+Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows and `LF` (`\n`) for Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, Mac OS, etc.). `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format.
Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare).
'id': '42',
'ext': 'mp4',
'title': 'Video title goes here',
- 'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+ 'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
# TODO more properties, either as:
# * A value
# * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
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