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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-30 01:56:15 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-30 01:56:15 +0100
commitadc0ae3ceb9371eb23a9a4d81d0e134ac861723e (patch)
tree85630487f46c5e78a3c224569831f42b056057b4 /youtube_dl
parenta7a14d958604f5334413e2fc1872a8317d5e4884 (diff)
[__init__] Provide a better error messages if URLs are missing (Closes #4813)
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 71d2c6f35..e90679ff9 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -361,7 +361,9 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
sys.exit()
ydl.warn_if_short_id(sys.argv[1:] if argv is None else argv)
- parser.error('you must provide at least one URL')
+ parser.error(
+ 'You must provide at least one URL.\n'
+ 'Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.')
try:
if opts.load_info_filename is not None: