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| author | Ricardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com> | 2008-07-25 23:42:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Ricardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com> | 2010-10-31 11:23:31 +0100 |
| commit | f807dc157e1215c3dbaf82333f6e86a8f98ea76b (patch) | |
| tree | ef2cdb3e0720e272b87dd8a9164d00f917f69a8f /index.html.in | |
| parent | 97accc0ecea6f6c14ec4151e8dd403c33e0ee980 (diff) | |
Update webpage to reflect changes
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diff --git a/index.html.in b/index.html.in index 999c8e9bc..40f8fd326 100644 --- a/index.html.in +++ b/index.html.in @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ li { margin-bottom: 0.5ex; } - #copyright { + .smallnote { font-size: x-small; text-align: center; } @@ -40,15 +40,16 @@ <body> <h1>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</h1> +<p class="smallnote">(and more...)</p> + <h2>What is it?</h2> <p><em>youtube-dl</em> is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. It requires the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python interpreter</a>, version 2.4 or later, and it's not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. The latest version -is <strong>@PROGRAM_VERSION@</strong>. It's licensed under the MIT License, which -means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like -complying with a few simple conditions.</p> +is <strong>@PROGRAM_VERSION@</strong>. It's released to the public domain, +which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.</p> <p>I'll try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access their videos. After all, it's a simple and short program. However, I can't @@ -62,11 +63,6 @@ at <a href="http://freshmeat.net/~rg3/">freshmeat.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for all the feedback received so far. I'm glad people find my program useful.</p> -<p><strong>Related projects</strong>: -<a href="../metacafe-dl/">metacafe-dl</a> -<a href="../pornotube-dl/">pornotube-dl</a> -</p> - <h2>Usage instructions</h2> <p>In Windows, once you have installed the Python interpreter, save the @@ -99,7 +95,8 @@ is too old.</p> <ul> <li>You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in -<em>youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.</li> +<em>youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>. +Read the <em>Output template</em> section for more details on this.</li> <li>Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password @@ -122,8 +119,8 @@ in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.</li> <li>The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard output using the -g or --get-url option.</li> -<li>Combined with the above option, the -2 or --title-too option tells the -program to print the video title too.</li> +<li>In a similar line, the -e or --get-title option tells the program to print +the video title.</li> <li>The default filename is <em>video_id.flv</em>. But you can also use the video title in the filename with the -t or --title option, or preserve the @@ -136,6 +133,12 @@ quality versions of the videos when available.</li> <li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the best quality version of a video by using the -b or --best-quality option.</li> +<li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the mobile quality version of +a video by using the -m or --mobile-version option.</li> + +<li>Normally, the program will stop on the first error, but you can tell it +to attempt to download every video with the -i or --ignore-errors option.</li> + <li><em>youtube-dl</em> honors the <em>http_proxy</em> environment variable if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like <em>http://proxy.example.com:8080</em>, and do not leave the <em>http://</em> @@ -168,6 +171,42 @@ are using.</p> <li><strong>SHA256</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA256SUM@</li> </ul> -<p id="copyright">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p> +<h2>Output template</h2> + +<p>The -o option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. +The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single +file, like in <em>youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv 'http://some/video'</em>. +However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when +downloading each video. The special sequences have the format +<strong>%(NAME)s</strong>. To clarify, that's a percent symbol followed by a +name in parenthesis, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are:</p> + +<ul> +<li><em>id</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.</li> +<li><em>url</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.</li> +<li><em>uploader</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the +person who uploaded the video.</li> +<li><em>title</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the literal video +title.</li> +<li><em>stitle</em>: The sequence will be replaced by a simplified video +title.</li> +<li><em>ext</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate +extension.</li> +</ul> + +<p>As you may have guessed, the default template is <em>%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>. +When some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates like +<em>%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>. You can specify your own.</p> + +<h2>Authors</h2> + +<ul> +<li>Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez: program core, YouTube.com InfoExtractor, +metacafe.com InfoExtractor and YouTube playlist InfoExtractor.</li> +<li>Many other people contributing patches, code, ideas and kind messages. Too +many to be listed here. You know who you are. Thank you very much.</li> +</ul> + +<p class="smallnote">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p> </body> </html> |