To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type:
- sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
+ sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
(experimental)
-6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
(experimental)
- --cn-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
- some Chinese sites. The default proxy
- specified by --proxy (or none, if the
+ --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)
-a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for
stdin)
--id Use only video ID in file name
- -o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template. Use %(title)s to
- get the title, %(uploader)s for the
- uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the
- uploader nickname if different,
- %(autonumber)s to get an automatically
- incremented number, %(ext)s for the
- filename extension, %(format)s for the
- format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or
- "HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of
- the format (like YouTube's itags: "137"),
- %(upload_date)s for the upload date
- (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
- (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the
- video id, %(playlist_title)s,
- %(playlist_id)s, or %(playlist)s (=title if
- present, ID otherwise) for the playlist the
- video is in, %(playlist_index)s for the
- position in the playlist. %(height)s and
- %(width)s for the width and height of the
- video format. %(resolution)s for a textual
- description of the resolution of the video
- format. %% for a literal percent. Use - to
- output to stdout. Can also be used to
- download to a different directory, for
- example with -o '/my/downloads/%(uploader)s
- /%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
+ -o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT
+ TEMPLATE" for all the info
--autonumber-size NUMBER Specify the number of digits in
%(autonumber)s when it is present in output
filename template or --auto-number option
bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
or fribidi executable in PATH
--sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
- download.
+ download when used alone or a lower bound
+ of a range for randomized sleep before each
+ download (minimum possible number of
+ seconds to sleep) when used along with
+ --max-sleep-interval.
+ --max-sleep-interval SECONDS Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep
+ before each download (maximum possible
+ number of seconds to sleep). Must only be
+ used along with --min-sleep-interval.
## Video Format Options:
-f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see the "FORMAT
# CONFIGURATION
-You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`.
+You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`. Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself.
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:
```
--no-mtime
--proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
-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`.
# Download best format available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol
$ youtube-dl -f '(bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol^=http]'
+
+# Download the best video format and the best audio format without merging them
+$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo,bestaudio' -o '%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s'
```
+Note that in the last example, an output template is recommended as bestvideo and bestaudio may have the same file name.
# VIDEO SELECTION
This section introduces a guide lines for writing idiomatic, robust and future-proof extractor code.
-Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of the source data provided by 3rd party media hoster out of your control and this layout tend to change. As extractor implementer your task is not only to write code that will extract media links and metadata correctly but also to minimize code dependency on source's layout changes and even to make the code foresee potential future changes and be ready for that. This is important because it will allow extractor not to break on minor layout changes thus keeping old youtube-dl version working. Even though this breakage issue is easily fixed by emitting a new version of youtube-dl with fix incorporated all the previous version become broken in all repositories and distros' packages that may not be so prompt in fetching the update from us. Needless to say some may never receive an update at all that is possible for non rolling release distros.
+Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of the source data provided by 3rd party media hoster out of your control and this layout tend to change. As an extractor implementer your task is not only to write code that will extract media links and metadata correctly but also to minimize code dependency on source's layout changes and even to make the code foresee potential future changes and be ready for that. This is important because it will allow extractor not to break on minor layout changes thus keeping old youtube-dl versions working. Even though this breakage issue is easily fixed by emitting a new version of youtube-dl with fix incorporated all the previous version become broken in all repositories and distros' packages that may not be so prompt in fetching the update from us. Needless to say some may never receive an update at all that is possible for non rolling release distros.
### Mandatory and optional metafields
In fact only the last option is technically mandatory (i.e. if you can't figure out the download location of the media the extraction does not make any sense). But by convention youtube-dl also treats `id` and `title` to be mandatory. Thus aforementioned metafields are the critical data the extraction does not make any sense without and if any of them fail to be extracted then extractor is considered completely broken.
-[Any field](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L149-L257) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerate** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields.
+[Any field](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L149-L257) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerate** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they are always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields.
#### Example
### Why are existing options not enough?
-Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#synopsis). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.
+Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.
### Is there enough context in your bug report?
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