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==Images miniatures==
==Images miniatures==
     --write-thumbnail                Write thumbnail image to disk
     --write-thumbnail                Écrire l'image miniature sur le disque
     --write-all-thumbnails          Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
 
     --list-thumbnails                Simulate and list all available thumbnail
     --write-all-thumbnails          Ecrire tous les formats d'images miniatures sur le disque
                                     formats
 
     --list-thumbnails                Simuler et répertorier tous les formats de vignettes
                                     disponibles.


==Verbiage / Options de simulation ==
==Verbiage / Options de simulation ==

Version du 30 juillet 2020 à 14:00

youtube-dl - télécharger des vidéos à partir de youtube.com ou d'autres plateformes vidéo

INSTALLATION

Pour installer Youtube-dl immédiatement pour tous les utilisateurs d'UNIX (Linux, macOS, etc.), tapez

   sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
   sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Si vous n'avez pas curl, vous pouvez aussi utiliser un wget récent :

   sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
   sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Les utilisateurs de Windows télécharger un fichier .exe et le placer n'importe où dans leur PATH sauf `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (par exemple ne pas utiliser `C:\Windows\System32`).

Vous pouvez aussi utiliser pip:

   sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
   

Cette commande mettra à jour youtube-dl si vous l'avez déjà installé. Voir la page pypi See the pypi page pour plus d'informations.

Les utilisateurs de macOS peuvent installer Youtube-dl avec with Homebrew:

   brew install youtube-dl

Ou avec MacPorts:

   sudo port install youtube-dl

Ou encore , se reporter aux instructions pour développeur pour savoir comment consulter et travailler avec le dépôt git. Pour d'autres options, y compris les signatures PGP, voir la page de téléchargement youtube-dl.

DESCRIPTION

youtube-dl est un programme en ligne de commande permettant de télécharger des vidéos de YouTube.com et de quelques autres sites. Il nécessite l'interpréteur Python, version 2.6, 2.7 ou 3.2+, et n'est pas spécifique à une plate-forme. Il devrait fonctionner sur votre système Unix, sur Windows ou sur macOS. Il est publié dans le domaine public, ce qui signifie que vous pouvez le modifier, le redistribuer ou l'utiliser comme vous le souhaitez.

   youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

OPTIONS

   -h, --help                       Affiche ce texte d'aide et quitte
   --version                        Affiche la version du programme est quitte
   -U, --update                     Met à jour ce programme vers la dernière version.
                                    Assurez-vous d'avoir les droits suffisants 
                                    (lancer avec  sudo si nécessaire)
   -i, --ignore-errors              Poursuivre même après une erreur de téléchargement, 
                                    par exemple pour sauter les vidéos non disponibles 
                                    dans une playlist
   --abort-on-error                 Abandonner le téléchargement d'autres vidéos (dans
                                    la liste de lecture ou la ligne de commande) si 
                                    une erreur se produit.
   --dump-user-agent                Afficher l'identification du navigateur actuel
   --list-extractors                Liste de tous les opérateurs d'extraction soutenus
                                    exemple : Youtube  ou Viméo ou Peertube
   --extractor-descriptions         Description des résultats de tous les opérateurs
                                    d'extraction soutenus
   --force-generic-extractor        Forcer l'extraction à utiliser l'opérateur 
                                    générique
   --default-search PREFIX          Utilisez ce préfix pour les URLs non qualifiées. 
                                    Par exemple "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
                                    from google videos for youtube-dl "large
                                    apple". 
                                    Utilisez la valeur "auto" pour laisser deviner
                                    youtube-dl ("auto_warning" pour émettre un
                                    avertissement  s'il y a une supposition). "error" ne fait
                                    que lancer une erreur. La valeur par défaut "fixup_error"
                                    répare les URLs cassées, mais envoie une erreur si
                                    ce n'est pas possible  au lieu de chercher.
   --ignore-config                  Ne pas lire les fichiers de configuration. Quand cette option 
                                    est utilisée dans le fichier de configuration global
                                    /etc/youtube-dl.conf: Ne pas lire la configuration de l'utilisateur
                                    dans ~/.config/youtube-dl/config (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt
                                    sous Windows)
   --config-location PATH           Emplacement du fichier de configuration ; soit
                                    le chemin d'accès à la configuration ou  au
                                    répertoir qui la contient.
   --flat-playlist                  Ne pas extraire les vidéos d'une playlist mais,
                                    les lister uniquement.
   --mark-watched                   Marquer les vidéos regardées (YouTube uniquement)
   --no-mark-watched                Ne pas marquer les vidéos regardées (YouTube uniquement)
   --no-color                       Ne pas émettre de codes de couleur en sortie

Options de réseau

   --proxy URL                      Utilisez le proxy HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS spécifié.
                                    Pour activer le proxy SOCKS, spécifiez un schéma 
                                    approprié. Par exemple socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. 
                                    Passez une chaîne vide (--proxy "") pour une 
                                    connexion directe.
   --socket-timeout SECONDS         Le temps d'attente avant d'abandonner, en secondes
   --source-address IP              Adresse IP côté client à laquelle se connecter.
   -4, --force-ipv4                 Effectuez toutes les connexions via IPv4.
   -6, --force-ipv6                 Effectuez toutes les connexions via IPv6.

Restriction Géographique

   --geo-verification-proxy URL     Utilisez ce proxy pour vérifier l'adresse IP  
                                    de certains sites à accès limité. Le proxy par 
                                    défaut spécifié par --proxy (ou aucun, si l'option
                                    n'est pas présente) est utilisé pour 
                                    le téléchargement proprement dit.
   --geo-bypass                     Contourner la restriction géographique en falsifiant
                                    l'en-tête HTTP X-Forwarded-For 
   --no-geo-bypass                  Ne pas contourner la restruction géographique en falsifiant
                                    l'en-tête HTTP X-Forwarded-For 
   --geo-bypass-country CODE        Contournement forcé de la restriction géographique 
                                    grâce à un code pays ISO 3166-2 à deux lettres 
                                    explicitement fourni
   --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK   Contournement forcé de la restriction géographique 
                                    avec un bloc IP explicitement fourni
                                    dans la notation CIDR

Sélection vidéo

   --playlist-start NUMBER          Commencer la   playlist de vidéos à (par défaut, 1)
   --playlist-end NUMBER            Terminer la playlit de vidéos  à (par défaut, la dernière)
   --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC       Éléments de la playlist de vidéos à télécharger. 
                                    Spécifiez les indices des vidéos dans la playlist
                                    séparés par une virgule comme ceci: "--playlist-items
                                    1,2,5,8" si vous voulez télécharger les vidéos 
                                    indexées 1, 2, 5, 8 dans la playlist. Vous pouvez 
                                    spécifier un intervalle : "--playlist-items
                                    1-3,7,10-13", cela téléchargera les vidéos 
                                    d'index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 et 13.
   --match-title REGEX              Télécharger uniquement les titres correspondants 
                                    (regex ou sous chaîne sub-string)
   --reject-title REGEX             Sauter le téléchargement pour les titres correspondants
                                    (regex ou sous chaîne sub-string)
   --max-downloads NUMBER           Abandon après le téléchargement de NUMBER fichiers 
   --min-filesize SIZE              Ne pas télécharger de vidéo plus petites que
                                    SIZE (exemple: 50k ou 44.6m)
   --max-filesize SIZE              Ne pas télécharger de vidéo plus grandes que SIZE
                                    (exemple : 50k or 44.6m)
   --date DATE                      Télécharger uniquement les vidéos mises en ligne 
                                    à la date DATE
   --datebefore DATE                Télécharger uniquement les vidéos mises en ligne 
                                    au plus tard à la date DATE (c'est-à-dire inclusif)
   --dateafter DATE                 Télécharger uniquement les vidéos mises en ligne
                                    à partir de la  date DATE (c'est-à-dire inclusif)
   --min-views COUNT                Ne pas télécharger de vidéo avec un compte de vues
                                    inférieur à COUNT 
   --max-views COUNT                Ne pas télécharger de vidéo avec un compte de vues
                                    supérieur à COUNT
   --match-filter FILTER            Filtre vidéo générique. Indiquez n'importe quelle clé (voir
                                    "#MODÈLE DE SORTIE" pour avoir la liste des 
                                    clés disponibles) pour vérifier si la clé est
                                    présente, !key pour vérifier si la clé n'est pas 
                                    présente, key > NUMBER (par exemple "comment_count
                                    > 12", cela marche aussi avec >=, <, <=, !=, =) pour
                                    comparer avec un nombre, key = 'LITERAL'
                                    (par exemple "uploader = 'Mike Smith'", cela fonctionne 
                                    aussi avec !=) pour comparer avec une chaîne littérale
                                    et & pour obtenir des correspondances multiples. Les valeurs
                                    qui ne sont pas connues sont exclues  à moins que vous
                                    n'ajoutiez un point d'interrogation (?) après l'opérateur.
                                    Par exemple, pour sélectionner les vidéos qui ont été 
                                    aimées plus de  100 fois et désapprouvées 
                                    moins de 50 fois  (ou la fonctionnalité dislike
                                    n'est pas disponible pour un service donné),
                                    mais qui a aussi une description,
                                    utilisez --match-filter "like_count > 100 &
                                    dislike_count <? 50 & description" .
   --no-playlist                    Télécharger seulement la vidéo, si l'URL renvoie
                                    à une vidéo et  à une playlist.
   --yes-playlist                   Télécharger la playlist, si l'URL renvoie
                                    à une vidéo et à une playlist.
   --age-limit YEARS                Télécharger seulement les vidéos qui correspondent 
                                    à l'âge YEARS
   --download-archive FILE          Télécharger uniquement les vidéos qui ne figurent pas dans 
                                    dans le fichier d'archives. Enregistrer les IDs de toutes
                                    les vidéos téléchargées dans le fichier.
   --include-ads                    Téléchargez également les annonces
                                    (expérimental)

Options de téléchargement

   -r, --limit-rate RATE            Taux de téléchargement maximum en octets par seconde
                                    (exemple: 50K or 4.2M)
   -R, --retries RETRIES            Nombre de tentatives (10 par défaut), ou
                                    "infinite".
   --fragment-retries RETRIES       Nombre d'essais pour un fragment (10 par défaut
                                    ou "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative et
                                    ISM)
   --skip-unavailable-fragments     Sauter les fragments non disponibles (DASH, hlsnative
                                    and ISM)
   --abort-on-unavailable-fragment  Abandonner le téléchargement lorsqu'un fragment n'est pas
                                    disponible. 
   --keep-fragments                 Conservez les fragments téléchargés sur le disque 
                                    une fois le téléchargement terminé; les fragments sont
                                    supprimés par défaut.
   --buffer-size SIZE               Taille du buffer de téléchargement (exemple : 1024 ou 16K)
                                    (par défaut est égal à 1024)
   --no-resize-buffer               Ne pas ajuster automatiquement la taille du buffer
                                    Par défaut, la taille du buffer est
                                    automatiquement redimensionnée  à partir d'une valeur
                                    initiale de SIZE.
   --http-chunk-size SIZE           Taille des blocs pour un téléchargement par transfert HTTP
                                    par bloc  (exemple : 10485760 ou 10M) (par défaut
                                    cette option est désactiviée). Peut être utile pour contourner
                                    la limitation  de la bande passante imposée par un serveur web
                                    (experimental)
   --playlist-reverse               Télécharger les vidéos  dans l'ordre inverse d'une playlist.
   --playlist-random                Télécharger les vidéos d'une playlist dans un ordre aléatoire.
   --xattr-set-filesize             Définir le fichier xattribute ytdl.filesize 
                                    avec la taille estimée du fichier
   --hls-prefer-native              Utilisez le téléchargeur HLS natif à la place de
                                    ffmpeg
   --hls-prefer-ffmpeg              Utiliser ffmpeg à la place du téléchargeur HLS
                                    natif.
   --hls-use-mpegts                 Utilisez le conteneur mpegts pour les vidéos HLS,
                                    ce qui permet de lire la vidéo pendant
                                    son téléchargement (certains lecteurs ne permettent pas
                                    cette lecture)
   --external-downloader COMMAND    Utilisez le téléchargeur externe spécifié.
                                    Soutenus actuellement :
                                    aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
   --external-downloader-args ARGS  Fournir ces arguments au téléchargeur extérne.

Options du système de fichiers

   -a, --batch-file FILE            Fichier contenant les URLs à télécharger ('-' pour
                                    stdin), une URL par ligne. Les lignes qui commencent 
                                    par '#', ';' or ']' sont considérées comme des 
                                    commentaires et sont ignorées.
   --id                             Utiliser uniquement l'identifiant de la vidéo dans 
                                    le nom du fichier.
   -o, --output TEMPLATE            Modèle de nom de fichier de sortie,  voir 
                                    "#MODÈLE DE SORTIE" pour avoir toutes les informations.
   --autonumber-start NUMBER        Précisez la valeur de départ pour %(autonumber)s
                                    (Par défaut c'est 1)
   --restrict-filenames             Limiter les noms de fichiers aux seuls ASCII,
                                    et éviter les "&" et les espaces dans
                                    les noms de fichier.
   -w, --no-overwrites              Ne pas écraser les fichiers
   -c, --continue                   Forcer la reprise des fichiers partiellement téléchargés.
                                    Par défaut, youtube-dl va reprendre les 
                                    téléchargements si possible.
   --no-continue                    Ne pas forcer la reprise des fichiers partiellement téléchargés.
                                    (recommencer depuis le début)
   --no-part                        Ne pas utiliser de fichier .part - écrire directement
                                    dans le fichier de sortie 
   --no-mtime                       Ne pas utiliser l'en-tête Last-modified pour fixer
                                    l'heure de modification du fichier
   --write-description              Ecrire la description de la vidéo dans un fichier 
                                    .description
   --write-info-json                Écrire les métadonnées vidéo dans un fichier .info.json
   --write-annotations              Écrivez des annotations vidéo dans un fichier
                                    .annotations.xml 
   --load-info-json FILE            Fichier JSON contenant les informations de la vidéo
                                    (créé avec l'option "--write-info-json")                              
   --cookies FILE                   Fichier permettant de lire les cookies File to read et 
                                    de les placer dans un cookies jar
   --cache-dir DIR                  Localisation dans le système de fichiers où youtube-dl
                                    peut stocker certaines informations de téléchargement
                                    en permanence. Par défaut 
                                    $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl ou
                                    ~/.cache/youtube-dl . À l'heure actuelle, seuls
                                    les fichiers du lecteur YouTube (pour les vidéos 
                                    dont les signatures sont masquées) sont mises en cache,
                                    mais cela pourrait changer
   --no-cache-dir                   Désactiver la mise en cache du système de fichiers
   --rm-cache-dir                   Supprimer tous les fichiers de cache du système de fichiers

Images miniatures

   --write-thumbnail                Écrire l'image miniature sur le disque
   --write-all-thumbnails           Ecrire tous les formats d'images miniatures sur le disque
   --list-thumbnails                Simuler et répertorier tous les formats de vignettes 
                                    disponibles.

Verbiage / Options de simulation

   -q, --quiet                      Activate quiet mode
   --no-warnings                    Ignore warnings
   -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-id                         Simulate, quiet but print id
   --get-thumbnail                  Simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
   --get-description                Simulate, quiet but print video description
   --get-duration                   Simulate, quiet but print video length
   --get-filename                   Simulate, quiet but print output filename
   --get-format                     Simulate, quiet but print output format
   -j, --dump-json                  Simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
                                    See the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description
                                    of available keys.
   -J, --dump-single-json           Simulate, quiet but print JSON information
                                    for each command-line argument. If the URL
                                    refers to a playlist, dump the whole
                                    playlist information in a single line.
   --print-json                     Be quiet and print the video information as
                                    JSON (video is still being downloaded).
   --newline                        Output progress bar as new lines
   --no-progress                    Do not print progress bar
   --console-title                  Display progress in console titlebar
   -v, --verbose                    Print various debugging information
   --dump-pages                     Print downloaded pages encoded using base64
                                    to debug problems (very verbose)
   --write-pages                    Write downloaded intermediary pages to
                                    files in the current directory to debug
                                    problems
   --print-traffic                  Display sent and read HTTP traffic
   -C, --call-home                  Contact the youtube-dl server for debugging
   --no-call-home                   Do NOT contact the youtube-dl server for
                                    debugging

Solutions de contournement

   --encoding ENCODING              Force the specified encoding (experimental)
   --no-check-certificate           Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
   --prefer-insecure                Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
                                    information about the video. (Currently
                                    supported only for YouTube)
   --user-agent UA                  Specify a custom user agent
   --referer URL                    Specify a custom referer, use if the video
                                    access is restricted to one domain
   --add-header FIELD:VALUE         Specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
                                    separated by a colon ':'. You can use this
                                    option multiple times
   --bidi-workaround                Work around terminals that lack
                                    bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
                                    or fribidi executable in PATH
   --sleep-interval SECONDS         Number of seconds to sleep before each
                                    download when used alone or a lower bound
                                    of a range for randomized sleep before each
                                    download (minimum possible number of
                                    seconds to sleep) when used along with
                                    --max-sleep-interval.
   --max-sleep-interval SECONDS     Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep
                                    before each download (maximum possible
                                    number of seconds to sleep). Must only be
                                    used along with --min-sleep-interval.

Options de format vidéo

   -f, --format FORMAT              Video format code, see the "FORMAT
                                    SELECTION" for all the info
   --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 of requested
                                    videos
   --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

Options de sous-titrage

   --write-sub                      Write subtitle file
   --write-auto-sub                 Write automatically generated subtitle file
                                    (YouTube only)
   --all-subs                       Download all the available subtitles of the
                                    video
   --list-subs                      List all available subtitles for the video
   --sub-format FORMAT              Subtitle format, accepts formats
                                    preference, for example: "srt" or
                                    "ass/srt/best"
   --sub-lang LANGS                 Languages of the subtitles to download
                                    (optional) separated by commas, use --list-
                                    subs for available language tags

Options d'authentification

   -u, --username USERNAME          Login with this account ID
   -p, --password PASSWORD          Account password. If this option is left
                                    out, youtube-dl will ask interactively.
   -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR        Two-factor authentication code
   -n, --netrc                      Use .netrc authentication data
   --video-password PASSWORD        Video password (vimeo, smotri, youku)

Options Adobe Pass

   --ap-mso MSO                     Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV
                                    provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for
                                    a list of available MSOs
   --ap-username USERNAME           Multiple-system operator account login
   --ap-password PASSWORD           Multiple-system operator account password.
                                    If this option is left out, youtube-dl will
                                    ask interactively.
   --ap-list-mso                    List all supported multiple-system
                                    operators

Options de post-traitement

   -x, --extract-audio              Convert video files to audio-only files
                                    (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
                                    avprobe)
   --audio-format FORMAT            Specify audio format: "best", "aac",
                                    "flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", "vorbis", or
                                    "wav"; "best" by default; No effect without
                                    -x
   --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|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 mp4,
                                    webm and mkv videos)
   --embed-thumbnail                Embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
   --add-metadata                   Write metadata to the video file
   --metadata-from-title FORMAT     Parse additional metadata like song title /
                                    artist from the video title. The format
                                    syntax is the same as --output. Regular
                                    expression with named capture groups may
                                    also be used. The parsed parameters replace
                                    existing values. Example: --metadata-from-
                                    title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a
                                    title like "Coldplay - Paradise". Example
                                    (regex): --metadata-from-title
                                    "(?P<artist>.+?) - (?P<title>.+)"
   --xattrs                         Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
                                    (using dublin core and xdg standards)
   --fixup POLICY                   Automatically correct known faults of the
                                    file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only
                                    emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the
                                    default; fix file if we can, warn
                                    otherwise)
   --prefer-avconv                  Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
                                    postprocessors
   --prefer-ffmpeg                  Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
                                    postprocessors (default)
   --ffmpeg-location PATH           Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary;
                                    either the path to the binary or its
                                    containing directory.
   --exec CMD                       Execute a command on the file after
                                    downloading and post-processing, similar to
                                    find's -exec syntax. Example: --exec 'adb
                                    push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
   --convert-subs FORMAT            Convert the subtitles to other format
                                    (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc)

CONFIGURATION

You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and macOS, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`. Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself.

For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory: ```

  1. Lines starting with # are comments
  1. Always extract audio

-x

  1. Do not copy the mtime

--no-mtime

  1. Use this proxy

--proxy 127.0.0.1:3128

  1. Save all videos under Movies directory in your home directory

-o ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s ```

Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls thus there **must be no whitespace** after `-` or `--`, e.g. `-o` or `--proxy` but not `- o` or `-- proxy`.

You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.

You can also use `--config-location` if you want to use custom configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.

      1. 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 the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you: ``` touch $HOME/.netrc chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc ``` After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the 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 the `.netrc` file you should pass `--netrc` to youtube-dl or place it in the [configuration file](#configuration).

On Windows you may also need to setup the `%HOME%` environment variable manually. For example: ``` set HOME=%USERPROFILE% ```

MODÈLE DE SORTIE

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 "https://some/video"`. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to [python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting). For example, `%(NAME)s` or `%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by formatting operations. Allowed names along with sequence type are:

- `id` (string): Video identifier
- `title` (string): Video title
- `url` (string): Video URL
- `ext` (string): Video filename extension
- `alt_title` (string): A secondary title of the video
- `display_id` (string): An alternative identifier for the video
- `uploader` (string): Full name of the video uploader
- `license` (string): License name the video is licensed under
- `creator` (string): The creator of the video
- `release_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
- `timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
- `upload_date` (string): Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
- `uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader
- `channel` (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on
- `channel_id` (string): Id of the channel
- `location` (string): Physical location where the video was filmed
- `duration` (numeric): Length of the video in seconds
- `view_count` (numeric): How many users have watched the video on the platform
- `like_count` (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video
- `dislike_count` (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the video
- `repost_count` (numeric): Number of reposts of the video
- `average_rating` (numeric): Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage
- `comment_count` (numeric): Number of comments on the video
- `age_limit` (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
- `is_live` (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video
- `start_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should start, as specified in the URL
- `end_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL
- `format` (string): A human-readable description of the format 
- `format_id` (string): Format code specified by `--format`
- `format_note` (string): Additional info about the format
- `width` (numeric): Width of the video
- `height` (numeric): Height of the video
- `resolution` (string): Textual description of width and height
- `tbr` (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
- `abr` (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
- `acodec` (string): Name of the audio codec in use
- `asr` (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz
- `vbr` (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s
- `fps` (numeric): Frame rate
- `vcodec` (string): Name of the video codec in use
- `container` (string): Name of the container format
- `filesize` (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance
- `filesize_approx` (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes
- `protocol` (string): The protocol that will be used for the actual download
- `extractor` (string): Name of the extractor
- `extractor_key` (string): Key name of the extractor
- `epoch` (numeric): Unix epoch when creating the file
- `autonumber` (numeric): Five-digit number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero
- `playlist` (string): Name or id of the playlist that contains the video
- `playlist_index` (numeric): Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
- `playlist_id` (string): Playlist identifier
- `playlist_title` (string): Playlist title
- `playlist_uploader` (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
- `playlist_uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader

Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:

- `chapter` (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
- `chapter_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to
- `chapter_id` (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to

Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:

- `series` (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
- `season` (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to
- `season_number` (numeric): Number of the season the video episode belongs to
- `season_id` (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to
- `episode` (string): Title of the video episode
- `episode_number` (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season
- `episode_id` (string): Id of the video episode

Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:

- `track` (string): Title of the track
- `track_number` (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a disc
- `track_id` (string): Id of the track
- `artist` (string): Artist(s) of the track
- `genre` (string): Genre(s) of the track
- `album` (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
- `album_type` (string): Type of the album
- `album_artist` (string): List of all artists appeared on the album
- `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
- `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released

Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor. Such sequences will be replaced with `NA`.

For example for `-o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s` and an mp4 video with title `youtube-dl test video` and id `BaW_jenozKcj`, this will result in a `youtube-dl test video-BaW_jenozKcj.mp4` file created in the current directory.

For numeric sequences you can use numeric related formatting, for example, `%(view_count)05d` will result in a string with view count padded with zeros up to 5 characters, like in `00042`.

Output templates can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g. `-o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'` which will result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding to this path template. Any missing directory will be automatically created for you.

To use percent literals in an output template use `%%`. To output to stdout use `-o -`.

The current default template is `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`.

In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, 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:

        1. Output template and Windows batch files

If you are using an output template inside a Windows batch file then you must escape plain percent characters (`%`) by doubling, so that `-o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"` should become `-o "%%(title)s-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s"`. However you should not touch `%`'s that are not plain characters, e.g. environment variables for expansion should stay intact: `-o "C:\%HOMEPATH%\Desktop\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s"`.

        1. Output template examples

Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.

```bash $ youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc youtube-dl test video _ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters

$ youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames youtube-dl_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file name

  1. Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist

$ youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re

  1. Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:

$ youtube-dl -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists

  1. Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home

$ youtube-dl -u user -p password -o '~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial/

  1. Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos

$ youtube-dl -o "C:/MyVideos/%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617

  1. Stream the video being downloaded to stdout

$ youtube-dl -o - BaW_jenozKc ```

SÉLECTION DU FORMAT

By default youtube-dl tries to download the best available quality, i.e. if you want the best quality you **don't need** to pass any special options, youtube-dl will guess it for you by **default**.

But sometimes you may want to download in a different format, for example when you are on a slow or intermittent connection. The key mechanism for achieving this is so-called *format selection* based on which you can explicitly specify desired format, select formats based on some criterion or criteria, setup precedence and much more.

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 the best quality format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g. `-f webm` will download the best quality format with the `webm` extension served as a single file.

You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:

- `best`: Select the best quality format represented by a single file with video and audio.
- `worst`: Select the worst quality format represented by a single file with video and audio.
- `bestvideo`: Select the best quality video-only format (e.g. DASH video). May not be available.
- `worstvideo`: Select the worst quality video-only format. May not be available.
- `bestaudio`: Select the best quality audio only-format. May not be available.
- `worstaudio`: Select the worst quality audio only-format. May not be available.

For example, to download the worst quality video-only format you can use `-f worstvideo`.

If you want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same formats available, you can specify the order of preference using slashes. Note that slash is left-associative, i.e. formats on the left hand side are preferred, for example `-f 22/17/18` will download format 22 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 17 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 18 if it's available, otherwise it will complain that no suitable formats are available for download.

If you want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as a separator, e.g. `-f 22,17,18` will download all these three formats, of course if they are available. Or a more sophisticated example combined with the precedence feature: `-f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio`.

You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in `-f "best[height=720]"` (or `-f "[filesize>10M]"`).

The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons `<`, `<=`, `>`, `>=`, `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals):

- `filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
- `width`: Width of the video, if known
- `height`: Height of the video, if known
- `tbr`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
- `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
- `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
- `asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
- `fps`: Frame rate

Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `^=` (starts with), `$=` (ends with), `*=` (contains) and following string meta fields:

- `ext`: File extension
- `acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
- `vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
- `container`: Name of the container format
- `protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (`http`, `https`, `rtsp`, `rtmp`, `rtmpe`, `mms`, `f4m`, `ism`, `http_dash_segments`, `m3u8`, or `m3u8_native`)
- `format_id`: A short description of the format

Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation `!` in order to produce an opposite comparison, e.g. `!*=` (does not contain).

Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, i.e. the metadata offered by the video hoster.

Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (`?`) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so `-f "[height <=? 720][tbr>500]"` selects up to 720p videos (or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s.

You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file using `-f <video-format>+<audio-format>` (requires ffmpeg or avconv installed), for example `-f bestvideo+bestaudio` will download the best video-only format, the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg/avconv.

Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use `-f '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'`.

Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26, youtube-dl uses `-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best` as the default format selection (see [#5447](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/5447), [#5456](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/5456)). If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading `bestvideo` and `bestaudio` separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. Otherwise it falls back to `best` and results in downloading the best available quality served as a single file. `best` is also needed for videos that don't come from YouTube because they don't provide the audio and video in two different files. If you want to only download some DASH formats (for example if you are not interested in getting videos with a resolution higher than 1080p), you can add `-f bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best` to your configuration file. Note that if you use youtube-dl to stream to `stdout` (and most likely to pipe it to your media player then), i.e. you explicitly specify output template as `-o -`, youtube-dl still uses `-f best` format selection in order to start content delivery immediately to your player and not to wait until `bestvideo` and `bestaudio` are downloaded and muxed.

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.

        1. Format selection examples

Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.

```bash

  1. Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available

$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'

  1. Download best format available but no better than 480p

$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]'

  1. Download best video only format but no bigger than 50 MB

$ youtube-dl -f 'best[filesize<50M]'

  1. Download best format available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol

$ youtube-dl -f '(bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol^=http]'

  1. Download the best video format and the best audio format without merging them

$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo,bestaudio' -o '%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s' ``` Note that in the last example, an output template is recommended as bestvideo and bestaudio may have the same file name.

SÉLECTION DE VIDEO

Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options `--date`, `--datebefore` or `--dateafter`. They accept dates in two formats:

- Absolute dates: Dates in the format `YYYYMMDD`.
- Relative dates: Dates in the format `(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?`

Examples:

```bash

  1. Download only the videos uploaded in the last 6 months

$ youtube-dl --dateafter now-6months

  1. Download only the videos uploaded on January 1, 1970

$ youtube-dl --date 19700101

$ # Download only the videos uploaded in the 200x decade $ youtube-dl --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231 ```

FAQ

      1. How do I update youtube-dl?

If you've followed [our manual installation instructions](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html), you can simply run `youtube-dl -U` (or, on Linux, `sudo youtube-dl -U`).

If you have used pip, a simple `sudo pip install -U youtube-dl` is sufficient to update.

If you have installed youtube-dl using a package manager like *apt-get* or *yum*, use the standard system update mechanism to update. Note that distribution packages are often outdated. As a rule of thumb, youtube-dl releases at least once a month, and often weekly or even daily. Simply go to https://yt-dl.org to find out the current version. Unfortunately, there is nothing we youtube-dl developers can do if your distribution serves a really outdated version. You can (and should) complain to your distribution in their bugtracker or support forum.

As a last resort, you can also uninstall the version installed by your package manager and follow our manual installation instructions. For that, remove the distribution's package, with a line like

   sudo apt-get remove -y youtube-dl

Afterwards, simply follow [our manual installation instructions](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html):

``` sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl hash -r ```

Again, from then on you'll be able to update with `sudo youtube-dl -U`.

      1. youtube-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows

Add a file exclusion for `youtube-dl.exe` in Windows Defender settings.

      1. I'm getting an error `Unable to extract OpenGraph title` on YouTube playlists

YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need at least youtube-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube videos.

If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do. Feel free to [report bugs](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+filebug) to the [Ubuntu packaging people](mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20youtube-dl) - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update.

      1. I'm getting an error when trying to use output template: `error: using output template conflicts with using title, video ID or auto number`

Make sure you are not using `-o` with any of these options `-t`, `--title`, `--id`, `-A` or `--auto-number` set in command line or in a configuration file. Remove the latter if any.

      1. Do I always have to pass `-citw`?

By default, youtube-dl intends to have the best options (incidentally, if you have a convincing case that these should be different, [please file an issue where you explain that](https://yt-dl.org/bug)). Therefore, it is unnecessary and sometimes harmful to copy long option strings from webpages. In particular, the only option out of `-citw` that is regularly useful is `-i`.

      1. Can you please put the `-b` option back?

Most people asking this question are not aware that youtube-dl now defaults to downloading the highest available quality as reported by YouTube, which will be 1080p or 720p in some cases, so you no longer need the `-b` option. For some specific videos, maybe YouTube does not report them to be available in a specific high quality format you're interested in. In that case, simply request it with the `-f` option and youtube-dl will try to download it.

      1. I get HTTP error 402 when trying to download a video. What's this?

Apparently YouTube requires you to pass a CAPTCHA test if you download too much. We're [considering to provide a way to let you solve the CAPTCHA](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/154), but at the moment, your best course of action is pointing a web browser to the youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube-dl.

      1. Do I need any other programs?

youtube-dl works fine on its own on most sites. However, if you want to convert video/audio, you'll need [avconv](https://libav.org/) or [ffmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/). On some sites - most notably YouTube - videos can be retrieved in a higher quality format without sound. youtube-dl will detect whether avconv/ffmpeg is present and automatically pick the best option.

Videos or video formats streamed via RTMP protocol can only be downloaded when [rtmpdump](https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) is installed. Downloading MMS and RTSP videos requires either [mplayer](https://mplayerhq.hu/) or [mpv](https://mpv.io/) to be installed.

      1. I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?

Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [mpv](https://mpv.io/), [vlc](https://www.videolan.org/) or [mplayer](https://www.mplayerhq.hu/).

      1. I extracted a video URL with `-g`, but it does not play on another machine / in my web browser.

It depends a lot on the service. In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come from the same IP address and with the same cookies and/or HTTP headers. 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. You can also get necessary cookies and HTTP headers from JSON output obtained with `--dump-json`.

It may be beneficial to use IPv6; in some cases, the restrictions are only applied to IPv4. Some services (sometimes only for a subset of videos) do not restrict the video URL by IP address, cookie, or user-agent, but these are the exception rather than the rule.

Please bear in mind that some URL protocols are **not** supported by browsers out of the box, including RTMP. If you are using `-g`, your own downloader must support these as well.

If you want to play the video on a machine that is not running youtube-dl, you can relay the video content from the machine that runs youtube-dl. You can use `-o -` to let youtube-dl stream a video to stdout, or simply allow the player to download the files written by youtube-dl in turn.

      1. ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info

YouTube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.

      1. ERROR: unable to download video

YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.

      1. Video URL contains an ampersand and I'm getting some strange output `[1] 2839` or `'v' is not recognized as an internal or external command`

That's actually the output from your shell. Since ampersand is one of the special shell characters it's interpreted by the shell preventing you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. To disable your shell from interpreting the ampersands (or any other special characters) you have to either put the whole URL in quotes or escape them with a backslash (which approach will work depends on your shell).

For example if your URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc you should end up with following command:

```youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc'```

or

```youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4\&v=BaW_jenozKc```

For Windows you have to use the double quotes:

```youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc"```

      1. ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'OF'

In February 2015, the new YouTube player contained a character sequence in a string that was misinterpreted by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.

      1. HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests or 402: Payment Required

These two error codes indicate that the service is blocking your IP address because of overuse. Usually this is a soft block meaning that you can gain access again after solving CAPTCHA. Just open a browser and solve a CAPTCHA the service suggests you and after that [pass cookies](#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-youtube-dl) to youtube-dl. Note that if your machine has multiple external IPs then you should also pass exactly the same IP you've used for solving CAPTCHA with [`--source-address`](#network-options). Also you may need to pass a `User-Agent` HTTP header of your browser with [`--user-agent`](#workarounds).

If this is not the case (no CAPTCHA suggested to solve by the service) then you can contact the service and ask them to unblock your IP address, or - if you have acquired a whitelisted IP address already - use the [`--proxy` or `--source-address` options](#network-options) to select another IP address.

      1. SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character

The error

   File "youtube-dl", line 2
   SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...

means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.

      1. What is this binary file? Where has the code gone?

Since June 2012 ([#342](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/342)) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might need renaming to `youtube-dl.zip` first on some systems) or clone the git repository, as laid out above. If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the `__main__.py` file. To recompile the executable, run `make youtube-dl`.

      1. The exe throws an error due to missing `MSVCR100.dll`

To run the exe you need to install first the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555).

      1. On Windows, how should I set up ffmpeg and youtube-dl? Where should I put the exe files?

If you put youtube-dl and ffmpeg in the same directory that you're running the command from, it will work, but that's rather cumbersome.

To make a different directory work - either for ffmpeg, or for youtube-dl, or for both - simply create the directory (say, `C:\bin`, or `C:\Users\<User name>\bin`), put all the executables directly in there, and then [set your PATH environment variable](https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml) to include that directory.

From then on, after restarting your shell, you will be able to access both youtube-dl and ffmpeg (and youtube-dl will be able to find ffmpeg) by simply typing `youtube-dl` or `ffmpeg`, no matter what directory you're in.

      1. How do I put downloads into a specific folder?

Use the `-o` to specify an [output template](#output-template), for example `-o "/home/user/videos/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"`. If you want this for all of your downloads, put the option into your [configuration file](#configuration).

      1. How do I download a video starting with a `-`?

Either prepend `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the options with `--`:

   youtube-dl -- -wNyEUrxzFU
   youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNyEUrxzFU"
      1. How do I pass cookies to youtube-dl?

Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`.

In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg) (for Chrome) or [cookies.txt](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/) (for Firefox).

Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the 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 the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows and `LF` (`\n`) for Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc.). `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 a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare).

      1. How do I stream directly to media player?

You will first need to tell youtube-dl to stream media to stdout with `-o -`, and also tell your media player to read from stdin (it must be capable of this for streaming) and then pipe former to latter. For example, streaming to [vlc](https://www.videolan.org/) can be achieved with:

   youtube-dl -o - "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj" | vlc -
      1. How do I download only new videos from a playlist?

Use download-archive feature. With this feature you should initially download the complete playlist with `--download-archive /path/to/download/archive/file.txt` that will record identifiers of all the videos in a special file. Each subsequent run with the same `--download-archive` will download only new videos and skip all videos that have been downloaded before. Note that only successful downloads are recorded in the file.

For example, at first,

   youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"

will download the complete `PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re` playlist and create a file `archive.txt`. Each subsequent run will only download new videos if any:

   youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
      1. Should I add `--hls-prefer-native` into my config?

When youtube-dl detects an HLS video, it can download it either with the built-in downloader or ffmpeg. Since many HLS streams are slightly invalid and ffmpeg/youtube-dl each handle some invalid cases better than the other, there is an option to switch the downloader if needed.

When youtube-dl knows that one particular downloader works better for a given website, that downloader will be picked. Otherwise, youtube-dl will pick the best downloader for general compatibility, which at the moment happens to be ffmpeg. This choice may change in future versions of youtube-dl, with improvements of the built-in downloader and/or ffmpeg.

In particular, the generic extractor (used when your website is not in the [list of supported sites by youtube-dl](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html) cannot mandate one specific downloader.

If you put either `--hls-prefer-native` or `--hls-prefer-ffmpeg` into your configuration, a different subset of videos will fail to download correctly. Instead, it is much better to [file an issue](https://yt-dl.org/bug) or a pull request which details why the native or the ffmpeg HLS downloader is a better choice for your use case.

      1. 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.

A note on the service that they don't host the infringing content, but just link to those who do, is evidence that the service should **not** be included into youtube-dl. The same goes for any DMCA note when the whole front page of the service is filled with videos they are not allowed to distribute. A "fair use" note is equally unconvincing if the service shows copyright-protected videos in full without authorization.

Support requests for services that **do** purchase the rights to distribute their content are perfectly fine though. If in doubt, you can simply include a source that mentions the legitimate purchase of content.

      1. How can I speed up work on my issue?

(Also known as: Help, my important issue not being solved!) The youtube-dl core developer team is quite small. While we do our best to solve as many issues as possible, sometimes that can take quite a while. To speed up your issue, here's what you can do:

First of all, please do report the issue [at our issue tracker](https://yt-dl.org/bugs). That allows us to coordinate all efforts by users and developers, and serves as a unified point. Unfortunately, the youtube-dl project has grown too large to use personal email as an effective communication channel.

Please read the [bug reporting instructions](#bugs) below. A lot of bugs lack all the necessary information. If you can, offer proxy, VPN, or shell access to the youtube-dl developers. If you are able to, test the issue from multiple computers in multiple countries to exclude local censorship or misconfiguration issues.

If nobody is interested in solving your issue, you are welcome to take matters into your own hands and submit a pull request (or coerce/pay somebody else to do so).

Feel free to bump the issue from time to time by writing a small comment ("Issue is still present in youtube-dl version ...from France, but fixed from Belgium"), but please not more than once a month. Please do not declare your issue as `important` or `urgent`.

      1. How can I detect whether a given URL is supported by youtube-dl?

For one, have a look at the [list of supported sites](docs/supportedsites.md). Note that it can sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme (say, from https://example.com/video/1234567 to https://example.com/v/1234567 ) and youtube-dl reports an URL of a service in that list as unsupported. In that case, simply report a bug.

It is *not* possible to detect whether a URL is supported or not. That's because youtube-dl contains a generic extractor which matches **all** URLs. You may be tempted to disable, exclude, or remove the generic extractor, but the generic extractor not only allows users to extract videos from lots of websites that embed a video from another service, but may also be used to extract video from a service that it's hosting itself. Therefore, we neither recommend nor support disabling, excluding, or removing the generic extractor.

If you want to find out whether a given URL is supported, simply call youtube-dl with it. If you get no videos back, chances are the URL is either not referring to a video or unsupported. You can find out which by examining the output (if you run youtube-dl on the console) or catching an `UnsupportedError` exception if you run it from a Python program.

  1. Why do I need to go through that much red tape when filing bugs?

Before we had the issue template, despite our extensive [bug reporting instructions](#bugs), about 80% of the issue reports we got were useless, for instance because people used ancient versions hundreds of releases old, because of simple syntactic errors (not in youtube-dl but in general shell usage), because the problem was already reported multiple times before, because people did not actually read an error message, even if it said "please install ffmpeg", because people did not mention the URL they were trying to download and many more simple, easy-to-avoid problems, many of whom were totally unrelated to youtube-dl.

youtube-dl is an open-source project manned by too few volunteers, so we'd rather spend time fixing bugs where we are certain none of those simple problems apply, and where we can be reasonably confident to be able to reproduce the issue without asking the reporter repeatedly. As such, the output of `youtube-dl -v YOUR_URL_HERE` is really all that's required to file an issue. The issue template also guides you through some basic steps you can do, such as checking that your version of youtube-dl is current.

INSTRUCTIONS POUR DÉVELOPPEUR

Most users do not need to build youtube-dl and can [download the builds](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html) or get them from their distribution.

To run youtube-dl as a developer, you don't need to build anything either. Simply execute

   python -m youtube_dl

To run the test, simply invoke your favorite test runner, or execute a test file directly; any of the following work:

   python -m unittest discover
   python test/test_download.py
   nosetests

See item 6 of [new extractor tutorial](#adding-support-for-a-new-site) for how to run extractor specific test cases.

If you want to create a build of youtube-dl yourself, you'll need

  • python
  • make (only GNU make is supported)
  • pandoc
  • zip
  • nosetests
      1. Adding support for a new site

If you want to add support for a new site, first of all **make sure** this site is **not dedicated to [copyright infringement](README.md#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. youtube-dl does **not support** such sites thus pull requests adding support for them **will be rejected**.

After you have ensured this site is distributing its content legally, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):

1. [Fork this repository](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/fork) 2. Check out the source code with:

       git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git

3. Start a new git branch with

       cd youtube-dl
       git checkout -b yourextractor

4. Start with this simple template and save it to `youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py`:

   ```python
   # coding: utf-8
   from __future__ import unicode_literals
   from .common import InfoExtractor


   class YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor):
       _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?yourextractor\.com/watch/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
       _TEST = {
           'url': 'https://yourextractor.com/watch/42',
           'md5': 'TODO: md5 sum of the first 10241 bytes of the video file (use --test)',
           'info_dict': {
               'id': '42',
               'ext': 'mp4',
               'title': 'Video title goes here',
               'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
               # TODO more properties, either as:
               # * A value
               # * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
               # * A regular expression; start the string with re:
               # * Any Python type (for example int or float)
           }
       }
       def _real_extract(self, url):
           video_id = self._match_id(url)
           webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
           # TODO more code goes here, for example ...
           title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1>(.+?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
           return {
               'id': video_id,
               'title': title,
               'description': self._og_search_description(webpage),
               'uploader': self._search_regex(r'<div[^>]+id="uploader"[^>]*>([^<]+)<', webpage, 'uploader', fatal=False),
               # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
           }
   ```

5. Add an import in [`youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py). 6. Run `python test/test_download.py TestDownload.test_YourExtractor`. This *should fail* at first, but you can continually re-run it until you're done. If you decide to add more than one test, then rename ``_TEST`` to ``_TESTS`` and make it into a list of dictionaries. The tests will then be named `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor`, `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_1`, `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_2`, etc. Note that tests with `only_matching` key in test's dict are not counted in. 7. Have a look at [`youtube_dl/extractor/common.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py) for possible helper methods and a [detailed description of what your extractor should and may return](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/7f41a598b3fba1bcab2817de64a08941200aa3c8/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L94-L303). Add tests and code for as many as you want. 8. Make sure your code follows [youtube-dl coding conventions](#youtube-dl-coding-conventions) and check the code with [flake8](https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/index.html#quickstart):

       $ flake8 youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py

9. Make sure your code works under all [Python](https://www.python.org/) versions claimed supported by youtube-dl, namely 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+. 10. When the tests pass, [add](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add) the new files and [commit](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit) them and [push](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push) the result, like this:

       $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
       $ git add youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
       $ git commit -m '[yourextractor] Add new extractor'
       $ git push origin yourextractor

11. Finally, [create a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request). We'll then review and merge it.

In any case, thank you very much for your contributions!

    1. youtube-dl coding conventions

This section introduces a guide lines for writing idiomatic, robust and future-proof extractor code.

Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of the source data provided by 3rd party media hosters out of your control and this layout tends to change. As an extractor implementer your task is not only to write code that will extract media links and metadata correctly but also to minimize dependency on the source's layout and even to make the code foresee potential future changes and be ready for that. This is important because it will allow the extractor not to break on minor layout changes thus keeping old youtube-dl versions working. Even though this breakage issue is easily fixed by emitting a new version of youtube-dl with a fix incorporated, all the previous versions become broken in all repositories and distros' packages that may not be so prompt in fetching the update from us. Needless to say, some non rolling release distros may never receive an update at all.

      1. Mandatory and optional metafields

For extraction to work youtube-dl relies on metadata your extractor extracts and provides to youtube-dl expressed by an [information dictionary](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/7f41a598b3fba1bcab2817de64a08941200aa3c8/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L94-L303) or simply *info dict*. Only the following meta fields in the *info dict* are considered mandatory for a successful extraction process by youtube-dl:

- `id` (media identifier)
- `title` (media title)
- `url` (media download URL) or `formats`

In fact only the last option is technically mandatory (i.e. if you can't figure out the download location of the media the extraction does not make any sense). But by convention youtube-dl also treats `id` and `title` as mandatory. Thus the aforementioned metafields are the critical data that the extraction does not make any sense without and if any of them fail to be extracted then the extractor is considered completely broken.

[Any field](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/7f41a598b3fba1bcab2817de64a08941200aa3c8/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L188-L303) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerant** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they are always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields.

        1. Example

Say you have some source dictionary `meta` that you've fetched as JSON with HTTP request and it has a key `summary`:

```python meta = self._download_json(url, video_id) ```

Assume at this point `meta`'s layout is:

```python {

   ...
   "summary": "some fancy summary text",
   ...

} ```

Assume you want to extract `summary` and put it into the resulting info dict as `description`. Since `description` is an optional meta field you should be ready that this key may be missing from the `meta` dict, so that you should extract it like:

```python description = meta.get('summary') # correct ```

and not like:

```python description = meta['summary'] # incorrect ```

The latter will break extraction process with `KeyError` if `summary` disappears from `meta` at some later time but with the former approach extraction will just go ahead with `description` set to `None` which is perfectly fine (remember `None` is equivalent to the absence of data).

Similarly, you should pass `fatal=False` when extracting optional data from a webpage with `_search_regex`, `_html_search_regex` or similar methods, for instance:

```python description = self._search_regex(

   r'<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<',
   webpage, 'description', fatal=False)

```

With `fatal` set to `False` if `_search_regex` fails to extract `description` it will emit a warning and continue extraction.

You can also pass `default=<some fallback value>`, for example:

```python description = self._search_regex(

   r'<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<',
   webpage, 'description', default=None)

```

On failure this code will silently continue the extraction with `description` set to `None`. That is useful for metafields that may or may not be present.

      1. Provide fallbacks

When extracting metadata try to do so from multiple sources. For example if `title` is present in several places, try extracting from at least some of them. This makes it more future-proof in case some of the sources become unavailable.

        1. Example

Say `meta` from the previous example has a `title` and you are about to extract it. Since `title` is a mandatory meta field you should end up with something like:

```python title = meta['title'] ```

If `title` disappears from `meta` in future due to some changes on the hoster's side the extraction would fail since `title` is mandatory. That's expected.

Assume that you have some another source you can extract `title` from, for example `og:title` HTML meta of a `webpage`. In this case you can provide a fallback scenario:

```python title = meta.get('title') or self._og_search_title(webpage) ```

This code will try to extract from `meta` first and if it fails it will try extracting `og:title` from a `webpage`.

      1. Regular expressions
        1. Don't capture groups you don't use

Capturing group must be an indication that it's used somewhere in the code. Any group that is not used must be non capturing.

          1. Example

Don't capture id attribute name here since you can't use it for anything anyway.

Correct:

```python r'(?:id|ID)=(?P<id>\d+)' ```

Incorrect: ```python r'(id|ID)=(?P<id>\d+)' ```


        1. Make regular expressions relaxed and flexible

When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy, relaxed and flexible, skipping insignificant parts that are more likely to change, allowing both single and double quotes for quoted values and so on.

          1. Example

Say you need to extract `title` from the following HTML code:

```html some fancy title ```

The code for that task should look similar to:

```python title = self._search_regex(

   r'<span[^>]+class="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)', webpage, 'title')

```

Or even better:

```python title = self._search_regex(

   r'<span[^>]+class=(["\'])title\1[^>]*>(?P<title>[^<]+)',
   webpage, 'title', group='title')

```

Note how you tolerate potential changes in the `style` attribute's value or switch from using double quotes to single for `class` attribute:

The code definitely should not look like:

```python title = self._search_regex(

   r'(.*?)',
   webpage, 'title', group='title')

```

      1. Long lines policy

There is a soft limit to keep lines of code under 80 characters long. This means it should be respected if possible and if it does not make readability and code maintenance worse.

For example, you should **never** split long string literals like URLs or some other often copied entities over multiple lines to fit this limit:

Correct:

```python 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' ```

Incorrect:

```python 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=' 'PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' ```

      1. Inline values

Extracting variables is acceptable for reducing code duplication and improving readability of complex expressions. However, you should avoid extracting variables used only once and moving them to opposite parts of the extractor file, which makes reading the linear flow difficult.

        1. Example

Correct:

```python title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>([^<]+)</title>', webpage, 'title') ```

Incorrect:

```python TITLE_RE = r'<title>([^<]+)</title>'

  1. ...some lines of code...

title = self._html_search_regex(TITLE_RE, webpage, 'title') ```

      1. Collapse fallbacks

Multiple fallback values can quickly become unwieldy. Collapse multiple fallback values into a single expression via a list of patterns.

        1. Example

Good:

```python description = self._html_search_meta(

   ['og:description', 'description', 'twitter:description'],
   webpage, 'description', default=None)

```

Unwieldy:

```python description = (

   self._og_search_description(webpage, default=None)
   or self._html_search_meta('description', webpage, default=None)
   or self._html_search_meta('twitter:description', webpage, default=None))

```

Methods supporting list of patterns are: `_search_regex`, `_html_search_regex`, `_og_search_property`, `_html_search_meta`.

      1. Trailing parentheses

Always move trailing parentheses after the last argument.

        1. Example

Correct:

```python

   lambda x: x['ResultSet']['Result'][0]['VideoUrlSet']['VideoUrl'],
   list)

```

Incorrect:

```python

   lambda x: x['ResultSet']['Result'][0]['VideoUrlSet']['VideoUrl'],
   list,

) ```

      1. Use convenience conversion and parsing functions

Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py): `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well.

Use `url_or_none` for safe URL processing.

Use `try_get` for safe metadata extraction from parsed JSON.

Use `unified_strdate` for uniform `upload_date` or any `YYYYMMDD` meta field extraction, `unified_timestamp` for uniform `timestamp` extraction, `parse_filesize` for `filesize` extraction, `parse_count` for count meta fields extraction, `parse_resolution`, `parse_duration` for `duration` extraction, `parse_age_limit` for `age_limit` extraction.

Explore [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py) for more useful convenience functions.

        1. More examples
          1. Safely extract optional description from parsed JSON

```python description = try_get(response, lambda x: x['result']['video'][0]['summary'], compat_str) ```

          1. Safely extract more optional metadata

```python video = try_get(response, lambda x: x['result']['video'][0], dict) or {} description = video.get('summary') duration = float_or_none(video.get('durationMs'), scale=1000) view_count = int_or_none(video.get('views')) ```

INTÉGRATION DE YOUTUBE-DL

youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language. If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to [create a report](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/new).

From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this:

```python from __future__ import unicode_literals import youtube_dl

ydl_opts = {} with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:

   ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])

```

Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/3e4cedf9e8cd3157df2457df7274d0c842421945/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L137-L312). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object.

Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file:

```python from __future__ import unicode_literals import youtube_dl


class MyLogger(object):

   def debug(self, msg):
       pass
   def warning(self, msg):
       pass
   def error(self, msg):
       print(msg)


def my_hook(d):

   if d['status'] == 'finished':
       print('Done downloading, now converting ...')


ydl_opts = {

   'format': 'bestaudio/best',
   'postprocessors': [{
       'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
       'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
       'preferredquality': '192',
   }],
   'logger': MyLogger(),
   'progress_hooks': [my_hook],

} with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:

   ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])

```

BUGS

Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: <https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues>. Unless you were prompted to or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email. For discussions, join us in the IRC channel [#youtube-dl](irc://chat.freenode.net/#youtube-dl) on freenode ([webchat](https://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=youtube-dl)).

    • Please include the full output of youtube-dl when run with `-v`**, i.e. **add** `-v` flag to **your command line**, copy the **whole** output and post it in the issue body wrapped in \`\`\` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:

``` $ youtube-dl -v <your command line> [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251 [debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.06 [debug] Git HEAD: 135392e [debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} ... ```

    • Do not post screenshots of verbose logs; only plain text is acceptable.**

The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.

Please re-read your issue once again to avoid a couple of common mistakes (you can and should use this as a checklist):

      1. Is the description of the issue itself sufficient?

We often get issue reports that we cannot really decipher. While in most cases we eventually get the required information after asking back multiple times, this poses an unnecessary drain on our resources. Many contributors, including myself, are also not native speakers, so we may misread some parts.

So please elaborate on what feature you are requesting, or what bug you want to be fixed. Make sure that it's obvious

- What the problem is - How it could be fixed - How your proposed solution would look like

If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it. We're often too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes misinterpretation likely. As a committer myself, I often get frustrated by these issues, since the only possible way for me to move forward on them is to ask for clarification over and over.

For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the *complete* output of youtube-dl when called with the `-v` flag. The error message you get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would not believe how many of our bug reports do not contain this information.

If your server has multiple IPs or you suspect censorship, adding `--call-home` may be a good idea to get more diagnostics. If the error is `ERROR: Unable to extract ...` and you cannot reproduce it from multiple countries, add `--dump-pages` (warning: this will yield a rather large output, redirect it to the file `log.txt` by adding `>log.txt 2>&1` to your command-line) or upload the `.dump` files you get when you add `--write-pages` [somewhere](https://gist.github.com/).

      1. Are you using the latest version?

Before reporting any issue, type `youtube-dl -U`. This should report that you're up-to-date. About 20% of the reports we receive are already fixed, but people are using outdated versions. This goes for feature requests as well.

      1. Is the issue already documented?

Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or browse the [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) of this repository. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity.

      1. Why are existing options not enough?

Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.

      1. Is there enough context in your bug report?

People want to solve problems, and often think they do us a favor by breaking down their larger problems (e.g. wanting to skip already downloaded files) to a specific request (e.g. requesting us to look whether the file exists before downloading the info page). However, what often happens is that they break down the problem into two steps: One simple, and one impossible (or extremely complicated one).

We are then presented with a very complicated request when the original problem could be solved far easier, e.g. by recording the downloaded video IDs in a separate file. To avoid this, you must include the greater context where it is non-obvious. In particular, every feature request that does not consist of adding support for a new site should contain a use case scenario that explains in what situation the missing feature would be useful.

      1. Does the issue involve one problem, and one problem only?

Some of our users seem to think there is a limit of issues they can or should open. There is no limit of issues they can or should open. While it may seem appealing to be able to dump all your issues into one ticket, that means that someone who solves one of your issues cannot mark the issue as closed. Typically, reporting a bunch of issues leads to the ticket lingering since nobody wants to attack that behemoth, until someone mercifully splits the issue into multiple ones.

In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using the same backend technology). Do not request support for vimeo user videos, White house podcasts, and Google Plus pages in the same issue. Also, make sure that you don't post bug reports alongside feature requests. As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs of youtube-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand. Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new video service.

      1. Is anyone going to need the feature?

Only post features that you (or an incapacitated friend you can personally talk to) require. Do not post features because they seem like a good idea. If they are really useful, they will be requested by someone who requires them.

      1. Is your question about youtube-dl?

It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely unrelated to youtube-dl and relate to a different, or even the reporter's own, application. Please make sure that you are actually using youtube-dl. If you are using a UI for youtube-dl, report the bug to the maintainer of the actual application providing the UI. On the other hand, if your UI for youtube-dl fails in some way you believe is related to youtube-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the bug.

COPYRIGHT

youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.

This README file was originally written by [Daniel Bolton](https://github.com/dbbolton) and is likewise released into the public domain.