diff options
| author | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2017-01-06 02:44:51 +0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2017-01-06 02:45:45 +0700 |
| commit | a9ee26021759f4f1a17d3c9482d85e68a45b2360 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cf16093e5c223112e9db63ab522a38b5e010ee3 /README.md | |
| parent | 1219201143adad8747ce7d5fe20004a01501ae63 (diff) | |
[README.md] Mention --config-location in configuration section (#11615)
Diffstat (limited to 'README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -446,6 +446,8 @@ Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches u You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run. +You can also use `--config-location` if you want to use custom configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run. + ### Authentication with `.netrc` file You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you: |