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@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@ -# youtube-dl +% youtube-dl(1) -## USAGE -youtube-dl [options] url [url...] +# NAME +youtube-dl -## DESCRIPTION +# SYNOPSIS +**youtube-dl** [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] + +# DESCRIPTION **youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.x (x being at least 6), and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. -## OPTIONS +# OPTIONS -h, --help print this help text and exit --version print program version and exit -U, --update update this program to latest version @@ -18,10 +21,11 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. -r, --rate-limit LIMIT download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m) -R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10) --dump-user-agent display the current browser identification + --user-agent None specify a custom user agent --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle -### Video Selection: +## Video Selection: --playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1) --playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last) --match-title REGEX download only matching titles (regex or caseless @@ -30,7 +34,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. caseless sub-string) --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files -### Filesystem Options: +## Filesystem Options: -t, --title use title in file name -l, --literal use literal title in file name -A, --auto-number number downloaded files starting from 00000 @@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --write-description write video description to a .description file --write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file -### Verbosity / Simulation Options: +## Verbosity / Simulation Options: -q, --quiet activates quiet mode -s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything to disk @@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --console-title display progress in console titlebar -v, --verbose print various debugging information -### Video Format Options: +## Video Format Options: -f, --format FORMAT video format code --all-formats download all available video formats --prefer-free-formats prefer free video formats unless a specific one is @@ -80,12 +84,12 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --srt-lang LANG language of the closed captions to download (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en' -### Authentication Options: +## Authentication Options: -u, --username USERNAME account username -p, --password PASSWORD account password -n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data -### Post-processing Options: +## Post-processing Options: --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe) --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav"; @@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. -k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post- processing; the video is erased by default -## FAQ +# FAQ ### Can you please put the -b option back? @@ -118,13 +122,13 @@ The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`. -## COPYRIGHT +# COPYRIGHT youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders. This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton (<https://github.com/dbbolton>) and is likewise released into the public domain. -## BUGS +# BUGS Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues> |