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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2013-12-03 13:33:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2013-12-03 13:33:07 +0100 |
| commit | cf6758d2040816033ec47afe9c1d497e4c2abd4d (patch) | |
| tree | b78215b839ed63ae7dd3af99e5cc364b3f82423c /youtube_dl | |
| parent | 731e3dde299844fc3b0f369d5a161fa4df0eb718 (diff) | |
Document disabling proxy (#1882)
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index fff295e8c..d2446b670 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): general.add_option('--extractor-descriptions', action='store_true', dest='list_extractor_descriptions', help='Output descriptions of all supported extractors', default=False) - general.add_option('--proxy', dest='proxy', default=None, help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy', metavar='URL') + general.add_option( + '--proxy', dest='proxy', default=None, metavar='URL', + help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection') general.add_option('--no-check-certificate', action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False, help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.') general.add_option( '--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR', |