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| author | Filippo Valsorda <filosottile.wiki@gmail.com> | 2012-09-28 19:55:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Filippo Valsorda <filosottile.wiki@gmail.com> | 2012-09-28 19:55:18 +0200 |
| commit | 5cdfaeb37bd17870979686b961ab9859938d09ce (patch) | |
| tree | dc9cb59225c9b484da49305c75800f14268de4a0 /README.md | |
| parent | 38612b4edcde54f4e75244b41a4966af9b285e6d (diff) | |
| download | youtube-dl-5cdfaeb37bd17870979686b961ab9859938d09ce.tar.xz | |
New FAQ: What is this binary file? (+ small fix to other one)
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@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not suppor youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`. -### SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character ### +### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ### The error @@ -139,10 +139,14 @@ To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out like th git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git cd youtube-dl - python -m youtube-dl --help + python -m youtube_dl --help Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore. +### What is this binary file? Where has the code gone? + +Since June 2012 (#342) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might need renaming to `youtube-dl.zip` first on some systems) or clone the git repo to see the code. If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the `__main__.py` file. To recompile the executable, run `make compile`. + # COPYRIGHT youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders. |