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This is an old revision of youtubedl made by coolpup on 2012-09-29 06:14:35.
youtube-dl
video downloading
Binary code distribution:
Dependencies: +python
Tutorial
# youtube-dl --help Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...] Options: General Options: -h, --help print this help text 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 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle 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 sub-string) --reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string) --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files 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 -o, --output TEMPLATE output filename template. Use %(stitle)s to get the 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
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
--no-continue do not resume partially downloaded files (restart
from beginning)
--cookies FILE file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
--no-part do not use .part files
--no-mtime do not use the Last-modified header to set the file
modification time
--write-description write video description to a .description file
--write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file
Verbosity / Simulation Options:
- q, --quiet activates quiet mode
- s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything
to disk
--skip-download do not download the video
- g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL
- e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title
--get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
--get-description simulate, quiet but print video description
--get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename
--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:
- 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:
- u, --username USERNAME account username
- p, --password PASSWORD account password
- n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
Post-processing Options:
--extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires
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 bitrate specification, 128k by
default
- k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post-
processing; the video is erased by default
Also on the Wiki
Appendix
Categories
CategoryMultimediaCategorySoftware
