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This is an old revision of youtubedl made by coolpup on 2012-09-29 06:09:45.
youtube-dl
video downloading
Binary code distribution:
Dependencies: +python
Tutorial
# youtube-dl --help Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...] Options: General Options: -h, --help print this help text and exit -v, --version print program version and exit -U, --update update this program to latest version -i, --ignore-errors continue on download errors -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 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle 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 sub-string) --reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string) 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 -o, --output TEMPLATE output filename template -a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin) -w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files -c, --continue resume partially downloaded files --no-continue do not resume partially downloaded files (restart from beginning) --cookies FILE file to dump cookie jar to --no-part do not use .part files --no-mtime do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time --write-description write video description to a .description file --write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file Verbosity / Simulation Options: -q, --quiet activates quiet mode -s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write anything to disk --skip-download do not download the video -g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL -e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title --get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL --get-description simulate, quiet but print video description --get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename --get-format simulate, quiet but print output format --no-progress do not print progress bar --console-title display progress in console titlebar Video Format Options: -f, --format FORMAT video format code --all-formats download all available video formats --max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download Authentication Options: -u, --username USERNAME account username -p, --password PASSWORD account password -n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data Post-processing Options: --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe) --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac" or "mp3"; best by default --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default -k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post- processing; the video is erased by default
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