-# youtube-dl
+% youtube-dl(1)
-## USAGE
-youtube-dl [options] url [url...]
+# NAME
+youtube-dl
-## DESCRIPTION
+# SYNOPSIS
+**youtube-dl** [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
+
+# DESCRIPTION
**youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from
YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
-2.x (x being at least 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in
+2.x (x being at least 6), and it is not platform specific. It should work in
your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
-## OPTIONS
+# OPTIONS
-h, --help print this help text and exit
- -v, --version print program version and exit
+ --version print program version and exit
-U, --update update this program to latest version
-i, --ignore-errors continue on download errors
-r, --rate-limit LIMIT download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
-R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10)
--dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
+ --user-agent UA specify a custom user agent
--list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they
would handle
-### Video Selection:
+## Video Selection:
--playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last)
--match-title REGEX download only matching titles (regex or caseless
caseless sub-string)
--max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
-### Filesystem Options:
+## Filesystem Options:
-t, --title use title in file name
-l, --literal use literal title in file name
-A, --auto-number number downloaded files starting from 00000
title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name,
%(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented
number, %(ext)s for the filename extension,
- %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), and
- %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to
- stdout.
+ %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD),
+ %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe,
+ etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% for a literal
+ percent. Use - to output to stdout.
-a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
-w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files
-c, --continue resume partially downloaded files
--write-description write video description to a .description file
--write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file
-### Verbosity / Simulation Options:
+## Verbosity / Simulation Options:
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything
to disk
--get-format simulate, quiet but print output format
--no-progress do not print progress bar
--console-title display progress in console titlebar
+ -v, --verbose print various debugging information
-### Video Format Options:
+## Video Format Options:
-f, --format FORMAT video format code
--all-formats download all available video formats
--prefer-free-formats prefer free video formats unless a specific one is
requested
--max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download
-F, --list-formats list all available formats (currently youtube only)
+ --write-srt write video closed captions to a .srt file
+ (currently youtube only)
+ --srt-lang LANG language of the closed captions to download
+ (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en'
-### Authentication Options:
+## Authentication Options:
-u, --username USERNAME account username
-p, --password PASSWORD account password
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-### Post-processing Options:
+## Post-processing Options:
--extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires
- ffmpeg and ffprobe)
- --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", or "m4a"; best by
- default
- --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default
+ ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)
+ --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav";
+ best by default
+ --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification, insert a
+ value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a
+ specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
-k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post-
processing; the video is erased by default
-## FAQ
+# FAQ
### Can you please put the -b option back?
### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
-The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file.
+The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct 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.
### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
-## COPYRIGHT
+### ERROR: unable to download video ###
+
+youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
+
+### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ###
+
+The error
+
+ File "youtube-dl", line 2
+ SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
+
+means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.
+
+To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out like this:
+
+ git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git
+ cd youtube-dl
+ python -m youtube_dl --help
+
+Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore.
+
+### What is this binary file? Where has the code gone?
+
+Since June 2012 (#342) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might need renaming to `youtube-dl.zip` first on some systems) or clone the git repo to see the code. If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the `__main__.py` file. To recompile the executable, run `make compile`.
+
+### The exe throws a *Runtime error from Visual C++*
+
+To run the exe you need to install first the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29).
+
+# COPYRIGHT
youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton (<https://github.com/dbbolton>) and is likewise released into the public domain.
-## BUGS
+# BUGS
Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues>
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