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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2012-12-04 11:05:25 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2012-12-04 11:05:38 +0100
commit077174f4ed2578706cf11a2b2ea74ddc309b11db (patch)
tree09f05df02653ccb28f8dbd623243e0e509853e2e
parente387eb5aba241e55e38e8bd5b57cc76b082ac6b9 (diff)
downloadyoutube-dl-077174f4ed2578706cf11a2b2ea74ddc309b11db.tar.xz
Add an example to the -o documentation (#573)
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 37d6f8cfd..71c7d29e0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def parseOpts():
action='store_true', dest='autonumber',
help='number downloaded files starting from 00000', default=False)
filesystem.add_option('-o', '--output',
- dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template. Use %(title)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), %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to stdout.')
+ dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template. Use %(title)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), %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% 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\' .')
filesystem.add_option('--restrict-filenames',
action='store_true', dest='restrictfilenames',
help='Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames', default=False)