X-Git-Url: http://git.jankratochvil.net/?p=youtube-dl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=1f752b9a75e6db2556a3676f16b2b4d0580d4001;hp=ad0590f9983ba5890c28dd1d64881319e7b7ff11;hb=HEAD;hpb=9baa2ef53b4da9ff1ee0cf0f4f0198ba4f6082cd diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ad0590f..1f752b9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. ## OPTIONS -h, --help print this help text and exit - -v, --version print program version and exit + --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) @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. sub-string) --reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string) + --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files ### Filesystem Options: -t, --title use title in file name @@ -36,8 +37,10 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. -o, --output TEMPLATE output filename template. Use %(stitle)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented - number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, and %% - for a literal percent + number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, + %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), and + %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to + stdout. -a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin) -w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files -c, --continue resume partially downloaded files @@ -63,11 +66,19 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. --get-format simulate, quiet but print output format --no-progress do not print progress bar --console-title display progress in console titlebar + -v, --verbose print various debugging information ### Video Format Options: -f, --format FORMAT video format code --all-formats download all available video formats + --prefer-free-formats prefer free video formats unless a specific one is + requested --max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download + -F, --list-formats list all available formats (currently youtube only) + --write-srt write video closed captions to a .srt file + (currently youtube only) + --srt-lang LANG language of the closed captions to download + (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en' ### Authentication Options: -u, --username USERNAME account username @@ -77,7 +88,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. ### Post-processing Options: --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe) - --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default + --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav"; + 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 @@ -98,7 +110,7 @@ Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [vlc](http://w ### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore -The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. +The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl. ### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info