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@@ -440,7 +440,11 @@ On Windows you may also need to setup the `%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 parentheses, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are: +The `-o` option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. + +**tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples). + +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 parentheses, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are: - `id`: Video identifier - `title`: Video title @@ -513,7 +517,7 @@ The current default template is `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`. In some cases, you don't want special characters such as δΈ, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the `--restrict-filenames` flag to get a shorter title: -#### Examples +#### Output template examples Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single. @@ -548,6 +552,8 @@ But sometimes you may want to download in a different format, for example when y The general syntax for format selection is `--format FORMAT` or shorter `-f FORMAT` where `FORMAT` is a *selector expression*, i.e. an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download. +**tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#format-selection-examples). + The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with `-f 22` you can download the format with format code equal to 22. You can get the list of available format codes for particular video using `--list-formats` or `-F`. Note that these format codes are extractor specific. You can also use a file extension (currently `3gp`, `aac`, `flv`, `m4a`, `mp3`, `mp4`, `ogg`, `wav`, `webm` are supported) to download best quality format of particular file extension served as a single file, e.g. `-f webm` will download best quality format with `webm` extension served as a single file. @@ -597,7 +603,7 @@ Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube-dl uses `-f bestvideo If you want to preserve the old format selection behavior (prior to youtube-dl 2015.04.26), i.e. you want to download the best available quality media served as a single file, you should explicitly specify your choice with `-f best`. You may want to add it to the [configuration file](#configuration) in order not to type it every time you run youtube-dl. -#### Examples +#### Format selection examples Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single. |