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@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --no-progress do not print progress bar --console-title display progress in console titlebar -v, --verbose print various debugging information - --dump-intermediate-pages print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose) + --dump-pages print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose) --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic -C, --call-home Contact the youtube-dl server for debugging. @@ -228,6 +228,9 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --embed-subs embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos) --embed-thumbnail embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art --add-metadata write metadata to the video file + --metadata-from-title FORMAT parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title. The format syntax is the same as --output, the parsed + parameters replace existing values. Additional templates: %(album), %(artist). Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - + %(title)s" matches a title like "Coldplay - Paradise" --xattrs write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards) --fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), detect_or_warn(the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise) @@ -404,6 +407,18 @@ A note on the service that they don't host the infringing content, but just link Support requests for services that **do** purchase the rights to distribute their content are perfectly fine though. If in doubt, you can simply include a source that mentions the legitimate purchase of content. +### How can I speed up work on my issue? + +(Also known as: Help, my important issue not being solved!) The youtube-dl core developer team is quite small. While we do our best to solve as many issues as possible, sometimes that can take quite a while. To speed up your issue, here's what you can do: + +First of all, please do report the issue [at our issue tracker](https://yt-dl.org/bugs). That allows us to coordinate all efforts by users and developers, and serves as a unified point. Unfortunately, the youtube-dl project has grown too large to use personal email as an effective communication channel. + +Please read the [bug reporting instructions](#bugs) below. A lot of bugs lack all the necessary information. If you can, offer proxy, VPN, or shell access to the youtube-dl developers. If you are able to, test the issue from multiple computers in multiple countries to exclude local censorship or misconfiguration issues. + +If nobody is interested in solving your issue, you are welcome to take matters into your own hands and submit a pull request (or coerce/pay somebody else to do so). + +Feel free to bump the issue from time to time by writing a small comment ("Issue is still present in youtube-dl version ...from France, but fixed from Belgium"), but please not more than once a month. Please do not declare your issue as `important` or `urgent`. + ### How can I detect whether a given URL is supported by youtube-dl? For one, have a look at the [list of supported sites](docs/supportedsites.md). Note that it can sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme (say, from http://example.com/video/1234567 to http://example.com/v/1234567 ) and youtube-dl reports an URL of a service in that list as unsupported. In that case, simply report a bug. @@ -503,6 +518,7 @@ youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus sho From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this: ```python +from __future__ import unicode_literals import youtube_dl ydl_opts = {} @@ -515,6 +531,7 @@ Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of what can be done, Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file: ```python +from __future__ import unicode_literals import youtube_dl @@ -572,7 +589,9 @@ If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the *complete* output of youtube-dl when called with the -v flag. The error message you get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would not believe how many of our bug reports do not contain this information. -Site support requests **must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/ ) is *not* an example URL. +If your server has multiple IPs or you suspect censorship, adding --call-home may be a good idea to get more diagnostics. If the error is `ERROR: Unable to extract ...` and you cannot reproduce it from multiple countries, add `--dump-pages` (warning: this will yield a rather large output, redirect it to the file `log.txt` by adding `>log.txt 2>&1` to your command-line) or upload the `.dump` files you get when you add `--write-pages` [somewhere](https://gist.github.com/). + +**Site support requests must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/ ) is *not* an example URL. ### Are you using the latest version? |