action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist',
default=False,
help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-color', '--no-colors',
+ action='store_true', dest='no_color',
+ default=False,
+ help='Do not emit color codes in output.')
network = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Network Options')
network.add_option(
'--playlist-end',
dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', default=None, type=int,
help='playlist video to end at (default is last)')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--playlist-items',
+ dest='playlist_items', metavar='ITEM_SPEC', default=None,
+ help='playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist seperated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.')
selection.add_option(
'--match-title',
dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',
'--max-views',
metavar='COUNT', dest='max_views', default=None, type=int,
help='Do not download any videos with more than COUNT views')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--match-filter',
+ metavar='FILTER', dest='match_filter', default=None,
+ help=(
+ '(Experimental) 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" .'
+ ))
selection.add_option(
'--no-playlist',
action='store_true', dest='noplaylist', default=False,
' You can filter the video results by putting a condition in'
' brackets, as in -f "best[height=720]"'
' (or -f "[filesize>10M]"). '
- ' This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr, and vbr'
- ' and the comparisons <, <=, >, >=, =, != .'
+ ' This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr, vbr, asr, and fps'
+ ' and the comparisons <, <=, >, >=, =, !='
+ ' and for ext, acodec, vcodec, container, and protocol'
+ ' and the comparisons =, != .'
' Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you'
' put a question mark (?) after the operator.'
' You can combine format filters, so '
help='lists all available subtitles for the video')
subtitles.add_option(
'--sub-format',
- action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT', default='srt',
- help='subtitle format (default=srt) ([sbv/vtt] youtube only)')
+ action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT', default='best',
+ help='subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "ass/srt/best"')
subtitles.add_option(
'--sub-lang', '--sub-langs', '--srt-lang',
action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
downloader.add_option(
'-R', '--retries',
dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
- help='number of retries (default is %default)')
+ help='number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".')
downloader.add_option(
'--buffer-size',
dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',
'--playlist-reverse',
action='store_true',
help='Download playlist videos in reverse order')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--xattr-set-filesize',
+ dest='xattr_set_filesize', action='store_true',
+ help='(experimental) set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--hls-prefer-native',
+ dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true',
+ help='(experimental) Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg.')
downloader.add_option(
'--external-downloader',
dest='external_downloader', metavar='COMMAND',
action='store_true', dest='youtube_print_sig_code', default=False,
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
verbosity.add_option(
- '--print-traffic',
+ '--print-traffic', '--dump-headers',
dest='debug_printtraffic', action='store_true', default=False,
help='Display sent and read HTTP traffic')
verbosity.add_option(
postproc.add_option(
'--fixup',
metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default='detect_or_warn',
- help='(experimental) Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
+ help='Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
- 'detect_or_warn(check whether we can do anything about it, warn '
- 'otherwise')
+ 'detect_or_warn(the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)')
postproc.add_option(
'--prefer-avconv',
action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',
'--prefer-ffmpeg',
action='store_true', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',
help='Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the postprocessors')
+ postproc.add_option(
+ '--ffmpeg-location', '--avconv-location', metavar='PATH',
+ dest='ffmpeg_location',
+ help='Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory.')
postproc.add_option(
'--exec',
metavar='CMD', dest='exec_cmd',
if opts.verbose:
write_string('[debug] Override config: ' + repr(overrideArguments) + '\n')
else:
- commandLineConf = sys.argv[1:]
- if '--ignore-config' in commandLineConf:
- systemConf = []
- userConf = []
+ command_line_conf = sys.argv[1:]
+ if '--ignore-config' in command_line_conf:
+ system_conf = []
+ user_conf = []
else:
- systemConf = _readOptions('/etc/youtube-dl.conf')
- if '--ignore-config' in systemConf:
- userConf = []
+ system_conf = _readOptions('/etc/youtube-dl.conf')
+ if '--ignore-config' in system_conf:
+ user_conf = []
else:
- userConf = _readUserConf()
- argv = systemConf + userConf + commandLineConf
+ user_conf = _readUserConf()
+ argv = system_conf + user_conf + command_line_conf
opts, args = parser.parse_args(argv)
if opts.verbose:
- write_string('[debug] System config: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(systemConf)) + '\n')
- write_string('[debug] User config: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(userConf)) + '\n')
- write_string('[debug] Command-line args: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(commandLineConf)) + '\n')
+ write_string('[debug] System config: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(system_conf)) + '\n')
+ write_string('[debug] User config: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(user_conf)) + '\n')
+ write_string('[debug] Command-line args: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(command_line_conf)) + '\n')
return parser, opts, args
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