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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/options.py11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index d1f8d1331..99ce4131f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -188,7 +188,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
network.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')
+ help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable experimental '
+ 'SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. For example '
+ 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") '
+ 'for direct connection')
network.add_option(
'--socket-timeout',
dest='socket_timeout', type=float, default=None, metavar='SECONDS',
@@ -392,8 +395,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
downloader.add_option(
- '-r', '--rate-limit',
- dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT',
+ '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
+ dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)')
downloader.add_option(
'-R', '--retries',
@@ -665,7 +668,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
action='store_true', dest='writeannotations', default=False,
help='Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file')
filesystem.add_option(
- '--load-info',
+ '--load-info-json', '--load-info',
dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
filesystem.add_option(