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@@ -172,18 +172,18 @@ Video Selection:
--max-views COUNT Do not download any videos with more than
COUNT views
--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, key = 'LITERAL' (like
- "uploader = 'Mike Smith'", also works with
- !=) to match against a string literal 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
+ the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" 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, key = 'LITERAL'
+ (like "uploader = 'Mike Smith'", also works
+ with !=) to match against a string literal
+ 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
@@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ Verbosity / Simulation Options:
--get-filename Simulate, quiet but print output filename
--get-format Simulate, quiet but print output format
-j, --dump-json Simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
- See --output for a description of available
- keys.
+ See the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description
+ of available keys.
-J, --dump-single-json Simulate, quiet but print JSON information
for each command-line argument. If the URL
refers to a playlist, dump the whole
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Post-processing Options:
syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
--convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
- (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)
+ (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc)
@@ -545,7 +545,9 @@ To activate authentication with the .netrc file you should pass --netrc
to youtube-dl or place it in the configuration file.
On Windows you may also need to setup the %HOME% environment variable
-manually.
+manually. For example:
+
+ set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
@@ -558,7 +560,7 @@ names.
TL;DR: navigate me to examples.
The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a
-single file, like in youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv "http://some/video".
+single file, like in youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video".
However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when
downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according
to python string formatting operations. For example, %(NAME)s or
@@ -623,28 +625,38 @@ with sequence type are:
- playlist_title (string): Playlist title
Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
-- chapter (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to -
-chapter_number (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to -
-chapter_id (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
+
+- chapter (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
+- chapter_number (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to
+- chapter_id (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
-- series (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode
-belongs to - season (string): Title of the season the video episode
-belongs to - season_number (numeric): Number of the season the video
-episode belongs to - season_id (string): Id of the season the video
-episode belongs to - episode (string): Title of the video episode -
-episode_number (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season -
-episode_id (string): Id of the video episode
-
-Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album: -
-track (string): Title of the track - track_number (numeric): Number of
-the track within an album or a disc - track_id (string): Id of the track
-- artist (string): Artist(s) of the track - genre (string): Genre(s) of
-the track - album (string): Title of the album the track belongs to -
-album_type (string): Type of the album - album_artist (string): List of
-all artists appeared on the album - disc_number (numeric): Number of the
-disc or other physical medium the track belongs to - release_year
-(numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
+
+- series (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode
+ belongs to
+- season (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to
+- season_number (numeric): Number of the season the video episode
+ belongs to
+- season_id (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to
+- episode (string): Title of the video episode
+- episode_number (numeric): Number of the video episode within a
+ season
+- episode_id (string): Id of the video episode
+
+Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
+
+- track (string): Title of the track
+- track_number (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a
+ disc
+- track_id (string): Id of the track
+- artist (string): Artist(s) of the track
+- genre (string): Genre(s) of the track
+- album (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
+- album_type (string): Type of the album
+- album_artist (string): List of all artists appeared on the album
+- disc_number (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium
+ the track belongs to
+- release_year (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will
be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. Note
@@ -688,7 +700,8 @@ should stay intact: -o "C:\%HOMEPATH%\Desktop\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s".
Output template examples
-Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
+Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of
+single.
$ youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc
youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
@@ -706,7 +719,7 @@ Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
$ youtube-dl -u user -p password -o '~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial/
# Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
- $ youtube-dl -o "C:/MyVideos/%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" http://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617
+ $ youtube-dl -o "C:/MyVideos/%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617
# Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
$ youtube-dl -o - BaW_jenozKc
@@ -787,8 +800,8 @@ fields: - ext: File extension - acodec: Name of the audio codec in use -
vcodec: Name of the video codec in use - container: Name of the
container format - protocol: The protocol that will be used for the
actual download, lower-case (http, https, rtsp, rtmp, rtmpe, mms, f4m,
-ism, m3u8, or m3u8_native) - format_id: A short description of the
-format
+ism, http_dash_segments, m3u8, or m3u8_native) - format_id: A short
+description of the format
Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be
present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular
@@ -835,7 +848,8 @@ file in order not to type it every time you run youtube-dl.
Format selection examples
-Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
+Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of
+single.
# Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available
$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'
@@ -895,7 +909,7 @@ If you have installed youtube-dl using a package manager like _apt-get_
or _yum_, use the standard system update mechanism to update. Note that
distribution packages are often outdated. As a rule of thumb, youtube-dl
releases at least once a month, and often weekly or even daily. Simply
-go to http://yt-dl.org/ to find out the current version. Unfortunately,
+go to https://yt-dl.org to find out the current version. Unfortunately,
there is nothing we youtube-dl developers can do if your distribution
serves a really outdated version. You can (and should) complain to your
distribution in their bugtracker or support forum.
@@ -1100,11 +1114,11 @@ all of your downloads, put the option into your configuration file.
How do I download a video starting with a -?
-Either prepend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= or separate the ID from
+Either prepend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= or separate the ID from
the options with --:
youtube-dl -- -wNyEUrxzFU
- youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNyEUrxzFU"
+ youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNyEUrxzFU"
How do I pass cookies to youtube-dl?
@@ -1135,7 +1149,7 @@ You will first need to tell youtube-dl to stream media to stdout with
capable of this for streaming) and then pipe former to latter. For
example, streaming to vlc can be achieved with:
- youtube-dl -o - "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj" | vlc -
+ youtube-dl -o - "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj" | vlc -
How do I download only new videos from a playlist?
@@ -1232,7 +1246,7 @@ How can I detect whether a given URL is supported by youtube-dl?
For one, have a look at the list of supported sites. Note that it can
sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme (say, from
-http://example.com/video/1234567 to http://example.com/v/1234567 ) and
+https://example.com/video/1234567 to https://example.com/v/1234567 ) and
youtube-dl reports an URL of a service in that list as unsupported. In
that case, simply report a bug.
@@ -1296,6 +1310,9 @@ test file directly; any of the following work:
python test/test_download.py
nosetests
+See item 6 of new extractor tutorial for how to run extractor specific
+test cases.
+
If you want to create a build of youtube-dl yourself, you'll need
- python
@@ -1337,7 +1354,7 @@ yourextractor):
class YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor):
_VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?yourextractor\.com/watch/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
_TEST = {
- 'url': 'http://yourextractor.com/watch/42',
+ 'url': 'https://yourextractor.com/watch/42',
'md5': 'TODO: md5 sum of the first 10241 bytes of the video file (use --test)',
'info_dict': {
'id': '42',
@@ -1374,7 +1391,8 @@ yourextractor):
_TEST to _TESTS and make it into a list of dictionaries. The tests
will then be named TestDownload.test_YourExtractor,
TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_1,
- TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_2, etc.
+ TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_2, etc. Note that tests with
+ only_matching key in test's dict are not counted in.
7. Have a look at youtube_dl/extractor/common.py for possible helper
methods and a detailed description of what your extractor should and
may return. Add tests and code for as many as you want.
@@ -1572,7 +1590,7 @@ fashion, like this:
ydl_opts = {}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
- ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
+ ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options
available, have a look at youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py. For a start, if you
@@ -1613,7 +1631,7 @@ downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file:
'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
- ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
+ ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
@@ -1635,7 +1653,7 @@ to this:
$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
- [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
+ [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 135392e
@@ -1690,9 +1708,9 @@ command-line) or upload the .dump files you get when you add
SITE SUPPORT REQUESTS MUST CONTAIN AN EXAMPLE URL. An example URL is a
URL you might want to download, like
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc. There should be an obvious
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc. There should be an obvious
video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of
-a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/) is _not_ an example URL.
+a video service (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/) is _not_ an example URL.
Are you using the latest version?