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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. ## Video Selection: --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1) --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last) - --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist seperated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" + --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist separated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13. --match-title REGEX Download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string) @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental) --hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental) - --external-downloader COMMAND Use the specified external downloader. Currently supports aria2c,curl,wget + --external-downloader COMMAND Use the specified external downloader. Currently supports aria2c,curl,httpie,wget --external-downloader-args ARGS Give these arguments to the external downloader ## Filesystem Options: @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --all-formats Download all available video formats --prefer-free-formats Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested -F, --list-formats List all available formats - --youtube-skip-dash-manifest Do not download the DASH manifest on YouTube videos - --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv.Ignored if no + --youtube-skip-dash-manifest Do not download the DASH manifests and related data on YouTube videos + --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required ## Subtitle Options: @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav"; "best" by default --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default 5) - --recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv) + --recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv|avi) + --postprocessor-args ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessor -k, --keep-video Keep the video file on disk after the post-processing; the video is erased by default --no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files; the post-processed files are overwritten by default --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos) @@ -237,6 +238,26 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. You can configure youtube-dl by placing default arguments (such as `--extract-audio --no-mtime` to always extract the audio and not copy the mtime) into `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and/or `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` and `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`. +### Authentication with `.netrc` file ### + +You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in shell command history. You can achieve this using [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only: +``` +touch $HOME/.netrc +chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc +``` +After that you can add credentials for extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of extractor in lowercase: +``` +machine <extractor> login <login> password <password> +``` +For example: +``` +machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password +machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password +``` +To activate authentication with `.netrc` file you should pass `--netrc` to youtube-dl or to place it in [configuration file](#configuration). + +On Windows you may also need to setup `%HOME%` environment variable manually. + # OUTPUT TEMPLATE 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 `youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv "http://some/video"`. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences have the format `%(NAME)s`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are: @@ -418,6 +439,12 @@ Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the opt youtube-dl -- -wNyEUrxzFU youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNyEUrxzFU" +### How do I pass cookies to youtube-dl? + +Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`. Note that cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows, `LF` (`\n`) for Linux and `CR` (`\r`) for Mac OS. `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format. + +Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. + ### Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows current movies for free? As a matter of policy (as well as legality), youtube-dl does not include support for services that specialize in infringing copyright. As a rule of thumb, if you cannot easily find a video that the service is quite obviously allowed to distribute (i.e. that has been uploaded by the creator, the creator's distributor, or is published under a free license), the service is probably unfit for inclusion to youtube-dl. |