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b31fdeed 21yt-dlp is a [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) fork based on the now inactive [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc). The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project
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25<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
034b6215 26* [NEW FEATURES](#new-features)
53ed7066 27 * [Differences in default behavior](#differences-in-default-behavior)
c76eb41b 28* [INSTALLATION](#installation)
17fa3ee2 29 * [Update](#update)
0e5927ee 30 * [Release Files](#release-files)
cf59cd4d 31 * [Dependencies](#dependencies)
17fa3ee2 32 * [Compile](#compile)
b31fdeed 33* [USAGE AND OPTIONS](#usage-and-options)
34 * [General Options](#general-options)
50865ca8 35 * [Network Options](#network-options)
b31fdeed 36 * [Geo-restriction](#geo-restriction)
50865ca8 37 * [Video Selection](#video-selection)
38 * [Download Options](#download-options)
39 * [Filesystem Options](#filesystem-options)
b31fdeed 40 * [Thumbnail Options](#thumbnail-options)
50865ca8 41 * [Internet Shortcut Options](#internet-shortcut-options)
0744a815 42 * [Verbosity and Simulation Options](#verbosity-and-simulation-options)
50865ca8 43 * [Workarounds](#workarounds)
44 * [Video Format Options](#video-format-options)
45 * [Subtitle Options](#subtitle-options)
46 * [Authentication Options](#authentication-options)
50865ca8 47 * [Post-processing Options](#post-processing-options)
7a340e0d 48 * [SponsorBlock Options](#sponsorblock-options)
50865ca8 49 * [Extractor Options](#extractor-options)
c76eb41b 50* [CONFIGURATION](#configuration)
50865ca8 51 * [Authentication with .netrc file](#authentication-with-netrc-file)
c76eb41b 52* [OUTPUT TEMPLATE](#output-template)
50865ca8 53 * [Output template and Windows batch files](#output-template-and-windows-batch-files)
54 * [Output template examples](#output-template-examples)
c76eb41b 55* [FORMAT SELECTION](#format-selection)
50865ca8 56 * [Filtering Formats](#filtering-formats)
57 * [Sorting Formats](#sorting-formats)
58 * [Format Selection examples](#format-selection-examples)
73cd218f 59* [MODIFYING METADATA](#modifying-metadata)
60 * [Modifying metadata examples](#modifying-metadata-examples)
5d3a0e79 61* [EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS](#extractor-arguments)
f74980cb 62* [PLUGINS](#plugins)
8c6f4daa 63* [EMBEDDING YT-DLP](#embedding-yt-dlp)
e167860c 64* [DEPRECATED OPTIONS](#deprecated-options)
8c6f4daa 65* [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp)
66 * [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
67 * [Developer Instructions](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
c76eb41b 68* [MORE](#more)
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50865ca8 70
71
034b6215 72# NEW FEATURES
91f071af 73
b69fd25c 74* Based on **youtube-dl 2021.12.17 [commit/5014bd6](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/5014bd67c22b421207b2650d4dc874b95b36dda1)** and **youtube-dlc 2020.11.11-3 [commit/f9401f2](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commit/f9401f2a91987068139c5f757b12fc711d4c0cee)**: You get all the features and patches of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) in addition to the latest [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
034b6215 75
7a340e0d 76* **[SponsorBlock Integration](#sponsorblock-options)**: You can mark/remove sponsor sections in youtube videos by utilizing the [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) API
034b6215 77
7581d246 78* **[Format Sorting](#sorting-formats)**: The default format sorting options have been changed so that higher resolution and better codecs will be now preferred instead of simply using larger bitrate. Furthermore, you can now specify the sort order using `-S`. This allows for much easier format selection than what is possible by simply using `--format` ([examples](#format-selection-examples))
034b6215 79
0fdf490d 80* **Merged with animelover1984/youtube-dl**: You get most of the features and improvements from [animelover1984/youtube-dl](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl) including `--write-comments`, `BiliBiliSearch`, `BilibiliChannel`, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, playlist infojson etc. Note that the NicoNico improvements are not available. See [#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.
29b6000e 81
f5546c0b 82* **Youtube improvements**:
6ccf351a 83 * All Feeds (`:ytfav`, `:ytwatchlater`, `:ytsubs`, `:ythistory`, `:ytrec`) and private playlists supports downloading multiple pages of content
0fdf490d 84 * Search (`ytsearch:`, `ytsearchdate:`), search URLs and in-channel search works
85 * Mixes supports downloading multiple pages of content
86c1a8aa 86 * Some (but not all) age-gated content can be downloaded without cookies
a4211baf 87 * Fix for [n-sig based throttling](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326)
f20f5fe5 88 * Redirect channel's home URL automatically to `/video` to preserve the old behaviour
e6f21b3d 89 * `255kbps` audio is extracted (if available) from youtube music when premium cookies are given
9ee4f0bb 90 * Youtube music Albums, channels etc can be downloaded ([except self-uploaded music](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/723))
adbc4ec4 91 * Download livestreams from the start using `--live-from-start`
f20f5fe5 92
f59f5ef8 93* **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using `--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]`
245524e6 94
597c1866 95* **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using `--split-chapters`
96
b31fdeed 97* **Multi-threaded fragment downloads**: Download multiple fragments of m3u8/mpd videos in parallel. Use `--concurrent-fragments` (`-N`) option to set the number of threads used
8d801631 98
b31fdeed 99* **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use `aria2c` as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats
f20f5fe5 100
e75bb0d6 101* **New and fixed extractors**: Many new extractors have been added and a lot of existing ones have been fixed. See the [changelog](Changelog.md) or the [list of supported sites](supportedsites.md)
86c1a8aa 102
103* **New MSOs**: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN
fac98805 104
3de7c2ce 105* **Subtitle extraction from manifests**: Subtitles can be extracted from streaming media manifests. See [commit/be6202f](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/be6202f12b97858b9d716e608394b51065d0419f) for details
034b6215 106
597c1866 107* **Multiple paths and output templates**: You can give different [output templates](#output-template) and download paths for different types of files. You can also set a temporary path where intermediary files are downloaded to using `--paths` (`-P`)
0bc0a322 108
109* **Portable Configuration**: Configuration files are automatically loaded from the home and root directories. See [configuration](#configuration) for details
110
418964fa 111* **Output template improvements**: Output templates can now have date-time formatting, numeric offsets, object traversal etc. See [output template](#output-template) for details. Even more advanced operations can also be done with the help of `--parse-metadata` and `--replace-in-metadata`
fac98805 112
91f071af 113* **Other new options**: Many new options have been added such as `--print`, `--wait-for-video`, `--sleep-requests`, `--convert-thumbnails`, `--write-link`, `--force-download-archive`, `--force-overwrites`, `--break-on-reject` etc
0bc0a322 114
9e907ebd 115* **Improvements**: Regex and other operators in `--match-filter`, multiple `--postprocessor-args` and `--downloader-args`, faster archive checking, more [format selection options](#format-selection), merge multi-video/audio, multiple `--config-locations`, etc
c69911e4 116
86c1a8aa 117* **Plugins**: Extractors and PostProcessors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details
b31fdeed 118
7a5c1cfe 119* **Self-updater**: The releases can be updated using `yt-dlp -U`
aa837ddf 120
7a5c1cfe 121See [changelog](Changelog.md) or [commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes
a26c99ac 122
53ed7066 123### Differences in default behavior
124
0930b11f 125Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtube-dlc:
53ed7066 126
96565c7e 127* The options `--auto-number` (`-A`), `--title` (`-t`) and `--literal` (`-l`), no longer work. See [removed options](#Removed) for details
b69fd25c 128* `avconv` is not supported as an alternative to `ffmpeg`
96565c7e 129* The default [output template](#output-template) is `%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`. There is no real reason for this change. This was changed before yt-dlp was ever made public and now there are no plans to change it back to `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`. Instead, you may use `--compat-options filename`
e4f02757 130* The default [format sorting](#sorting-formats) is different from youtube-dl and prefers higher resolution and better codecs rather than higher bitrates. You can use the `--format-sort` option to change this to any order you prefer, or use `--compat-options format-sort` to use youtube-dl's sorting order
e75bb0d6 131* The default format selector is `bv*+ba/b`. This means that if a combined video + audio format that is better than the best video-only format is found, the former will be preferred. Use `-f bv+ba/b` or `--compat-options format-spec` to revert this
28b0eb0f 132* Unlike youtube-dlc, yt-dlp does not allow merging multiple audio/video streams into one file by default (since this conflicts with the use of `-f bv*+ba`). If needed, this feature must be enabled using `--audio-multistreams` and `--video-multistreams`. You can also use `--compat-options multistreams` to enable both
133* `--ignore-errors` is enabled by default. Use `--abort-on-error` or `--compat-options abort-on-error` to abort on errors instead
134* When writing metadata files such as thumbnails, description or infojson, the same information (if available) is also written for playlists. Use `--no-write-playlist-metafiles` or `--compat-options no-playlist-metafiles` to not write these files
9222c381 135* `--add-metadata` attaches the `infojson` to `mkv` files in addition to writing the metadata when used with `--write-info-json`. Use `--no-embed-info-json` or `--compat-options no-attach-info-json` to revert this
9e907ebd 136* Some metadata are embedded into different fields when using `--add-metadata` as compared to youtube-dl. Most notably, `comment` field contains the `webpage_url` and `synopsis` contains the `description`. You can [use `--parse-metadata`](#modifying-metadata) to modify this to your liking or use `--compat-options embed-metadata` to revert this
28b0eb0f 137* `playlist_index` behaves differently when used with options like `--playlist-reverse` and `--playlist-items`. See [#302](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/302) for details. You can use `--compat-options playlist-index` if you want to keep the earlier behavior
138* The output of `-F` is listed in a new format. Use `--compat-options list-formats` to revert this
3acf6d38 139* All *experiences* of a funimation episode are considered as a single video. This behavior breaks existing archives. Use `--compat-options seperate-video-versions` to extract information from only the default player
28b0eb0f 140* Youtube live chat (if available) is considered as a subtitle. Use `--sub-langs all,-live_chat` to download all subtitles except live chat. You can also use `--compat-options no-live-chat` to prevent live chat from downloading
64f36541 141* Youtube channel URLs are automatically redirected to `/video`. Append a `/featured` to the URL to download only the videos in the home page. If the channel does not have a videos tab, we try to download the equivalent `UU` playlist instead. For all other tabs, if the channel does not show the requested tab, an error will be raised. Also, `/live` URLs raise an error if there are no live videos instead of silently downloading the entire channel. You may use `--compat-options no-youtube-channel-redirect` to revert all these redirections
28b0eb0f 142* Unavailable videos are also listed for youtube playlists. Use `--compat-options no-youtube-unavailable-videos` to remove this
18e674b4 143* If `ffmpeg` is used as the downloader, the downloading and merging of formats happen in a single step when possible. Use `--compat-options no-direct-merge` to revert this
e858a9d6 144* Thumbnail embedding in `mp4` is done with mutagen if possible. Use `--compat-options embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley` to force the use of AtomicParsley instead
e4f02757 145* Some private fields such as filenames are removed by default from the infojson. Use `--no-clean-infojson` or `--compat-options no-clean-infojson` to revert this
e75bb0d6 146* When `--embed-subs` and `--write-subs` are used together, the subtitles are written to disk and also embedded in the media file. You can use just `--embed-subs` to embed the subs and automatically delete the separate file. See [#630 (comment)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/630#issuecomment-893659460) for more info. `--compat-options no-keep-subs` can be used to revert this
53ed7066 147
148For ease of use, a few more compat options are available:
28b0eb0f 149* `--compat-options all`: Use all compat options
150* `--compat-options youtube-dl`: Same as `--compat-options all,-multistreams`
151* `--compat-options youtube-dlc`: Same as `--compat-options all,-no-live-chat,-no-youtube-channel-redirect`
53ed7066 152
f20f5fe5 153
d19bb9c0 154# INSTALLATION
50865ca8 155
7bc877a2 156You can install yt-dlp using one of the following methods:
a61f4b28 157
a4211baf 158### Using the release binary
0930b11f 159
fc5fa964 160You can simply download the [correct binary file](#release-files) for your OS
5f326cf5 161
fc5fa964 162<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
163[![Windows](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Windows_x64-blue.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=windows)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)
164[![Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Linux/MacOS/BSD-red.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=linux)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)
165[![Source Tarball](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Source_tar-green.svg?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
166[![Other variants](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Other-grey.svg?style=for-the-badge)](#release-files)
167[![ALl versions](https://img.shields.io/badge/-All_Versions-lightgrey.svg?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases)
168<!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
169
170Note: The manpages, shell completion files etc. are available in the [source tarball](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
171
172<!-- TODO: Move to Wiki -->
0930b11f 173In UNIX-like OSes (MacOS, Linux, BSD), you can also install the same in one of the following ways:
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175```
176sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
177sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
178```
179
180```
181sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
182sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
183```
184
185```
b69fd25c 186sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp --dir /usr/local/bin -o yt-dlp
5ba4a0b6
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188```
189
0930b11f 190
a4211baf 191### With [PIP](https://pypi.org/project/pip)
0930b11f 192
193You can install the [PyPI package](https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp) with:
194```
195python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp
196```
197
86c1a8aa 198You can install without any of the optional dependencies using:
0930b11f 199```
200python3 -m pip install --no-deps -U yt-dlp
201```
202
86c1a8aa 203If you want to be on the cutting edge, you can also install the master branch with:
0930b11f 204```
9222c381 205python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.zip
0930b11f 206```
207
208Note that on some systems, you may need to use `py` or `python` instead of `python3`
209
fc5fa964 210<!-- TODO: Add to Wiki, Remove Taps -->
a4211baf 211### With [Homebrew](https://brew.sh)
0930b11f 212
213macOS or Linux users that are using Homebrew can also install it by:
b8773e63
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215```
216brew install yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp
217```
218
a4211baf 219## UPDATE
0930b11f 220You can use `yt-dlp -U` to update if you are [using the provided release](#using-the-release-binary)
221
222If you [installed with pip](#with-pip), simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
223
224If you [installed using Homebrew](#with-homebrew), run `brew upgrade yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp`
cf59cd4d 225
ec2e44fc 226<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
a4211baf 227## RELEASE FILES
0e5927ee 228
733d8e8f 229#### Recommended
230
231File|Description
232:---|:---
0930b11f 233[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)|Platform-independant binary. Needs Python (recommended for **UNIX-like systems**)
234[yt-dlp.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)|Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary (recommended for **Windows**)
733d8e8f 235
236#### Alternatives
237
0e5927ee
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239:---|:---
96565c7e 240[yt-dlp_macos](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos)|MacOS (10.15+) standalone executable
0930b11f 241[yt-dlp_x86.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86.exe)|Windows (Vista SP2+) standalone x86 (32-bit) binary
96565c7e 242[yt-dlp_min.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_min.exe)|Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary built with `py2exe`.<br/> Does not contain `pycryptodomex`, needs VC++14
0930b11f 243[yt-dlp_win.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_win.zip)|Unpackaged Windows executable (no auto-update)
244[yt-dlp_macos.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos.zip)|Unpackaged MacOS (10.15+) executable (no auto-update)
733d8e8f 245
246#### Misc
247
248File|Description
249:---|:---
0e5927ee
R		 250[yt-dlp.tar.gz](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)|Source tarball. Also contains manpages, completions, etc
251[SHA2-512SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-512SUMS)|GNU-style SHA512 sums
252[SHA2-256SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-256SUMS)|GNU-style SHA256 sums
ec2e44fc 253<!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
0e5927ee 254
a4211baf 255## DEPENDENCIES
cf59cd4d 256Python versions 3.6+ (CPython and PyPy) are supported. Other versions and implementations may or may not work correctly.
b31fdeed 257
c9652aa4 258<!-- Python 3.5+ uses VC++14 and it is already embedded in the binary created
259<!x-- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26999 --x>
cf59cd4d 260On windows, [Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe) is also necessary to run yt-dlp. You probably already have this, but if the executable throws an error due to missing `MSVCR100.dll` you need to install it manually.
c9652aa4 261-->
fac98805 262
e75bb0d6 263While all the other dependencies are optional, `ffmpeg` and `ffprobe` are highly recommended
ec2e44fc 264
b69fd25c 265* [**ffmpeg** and **ffprobe**](https://www.ffmpeg.org) - Required for [merging separate video and audio files](#format-selection) as well as for various [post-processing](#post-processing-options) tasks. License [depends on the build](https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html)
0930b11f 266* [**mutagen**](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen) - For embedding thumbnail in certain formats. Licensed under [GPLv2+](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/blob/master/COPYING)
267* [**pycryptodomex**](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome) - For decrypting AES-128 HLS streams and various other data. Licensed under [BSD2](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/LICENSE.rst)
268* [**websockets**](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets) - For downloading over websocket. Licensed under [BSD3](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/blob/main/LICENSE)
f59f5ef8 269* [**secretstorage**](https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage) - For accessing the Gnome keyring while decrypting cookies of Chromium-based browsers on Linux. Licensed under [BSD](https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage/blob/master/LICENSE)
0930b11f 270* [**AtomicParsley**](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley) - For embedding thumbnail in mp4/m4a if mutagen is not present. Licensed under [GPLv2+](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley/blob/master/COPYING)
271* [**rtmpdump**](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu) - For downloading `rtmp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under [GPLv2+](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu)
272* [**mplayer**](http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html) or [**mpv**](https://mpv.io) - For downloading `rstp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under [GPLv2+](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/Copyright)
273* [**phantomjs**](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs) - Used in extractors where javascript needs to be run. Licensed under [BSD3](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/LICENSE.BSD)
274* [**sponskrub**](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) - For using the now **deprecated** [sponskrub options](#sponskrub-options). Licensed under [GPLv3+](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub/blob/master/LICENCE.md)
cf59cd4d 275* Any external downloader that you want to use with `--downloader`
b31fdeed 276
cf59cd4d 277To use or redistribute the dependencies, you must agree to their respective licensing terms.
278
0930b11f 279The Windows and MacOS standalone release binaries are already built with the python interpreter, mutagen, pycryptodomex and websockets included.
d710cc6d 280
fc5fa964 281**Note**: There are some regressions in newer ffmpeg versions that causes various issues when used alongside yt-dlp. Since ffmpeg is such an important dependency, we provide [custom builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#ffmpeg-static-auto-builds) with patches for these issues at [yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds). See [the readme](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#patches-applied) for details on the specific issues solved by these builds
d710cc6d 282
5f326cf5 283
a4211baf 284## COMPILE
5f326cf5 285
c76eb41b 286**For Windows**:
49a57e70 287To build the Windows executable, you must have pyinstaller (and optionally mutagen, pycryptodomex, websockets). Once you have all the necessary dependencies installed, (optionally) build lazy extractors using `devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py`, and then just run `pyinst.py`. The executable will be built for the same architecture (32/64 bit) as the python used to build it.
e38df8f9 288
733d8e8f 289 py -m pip install -U pyinstaller -r requirements.txt
49a57e70 290 py devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
733d8e8f 291 py pyinst.py
7581d246 292
fac98805 293Note that pyinstaller [does not support](https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller#requirements-and-tested-platforms) Python installed from the Windows store without using a virtual environment
b96a939b 294
c76eb41b 295**For Unix**:
060ac762 296You will need the required build tools: `python`, `make` (GNU), `pandoc`, `zip`, `pytest`
127d0759 297Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only the binary without updating any of the additional files
5f326cf5 298
49a57e70 299**Note**: In either platform, `devscripts/update-version.py` can be used to automatically update the version number
d19bb9c0 300
75b725a7 301You can also fork the project on github and run your fork's [build workflow](.github/workflows/build.yml) to automatically build a release
59a7a13e 302
b31fdeed 303# USAGE AND OPTIONS
6bcd846b 304
ec2e44fc 305<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
7a5c1cfe 306 yt-dlp [OPTIONS] [--] URL [URL...]
b50e3bc6 307
c2b5f311 308`Ctrl+F` is your friend :D
ec2e44fc 309<!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
c2b5f311 310
ec2e44fc 311<!-- Auto generated -->
c76eb41b 312## General Options:
1dc2726f
PH		 313 -h, --help Print this help text and exit
314 --version Print program version and exit
8d801631 315 -U, --update Update this program to latest version. Make
316 sure that you have sufficient permissions
317 (run with sudo if needed)
b1940459 318 -i, --ignore-errors Ignore download and postprocessing errors.
0930b11f 319 The download will be considered successful
b1940459 320 even if the postprocessing fails
321 --no-abort-on-error Continue with next video on download
322 errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in
323 a playlist (default)
8a51f564 324 --abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos if an
325 error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)
34488702 326 --dump-user-agent Display the current user-agent and exit
327 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and exit
c4af7684 328 --extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
34488702 329 extractors and exit
c4af7684
PH		 330 --force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic
331 extractor
332 --default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
333 example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
9ee4f0bb 334 from google videos for the search term
335 "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let
336 yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
c4af7684
PH		 337 warning when guessing). "error" just throws
338 an error. The default value "fixup_error"
339 repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
8a51f564 340 this is not possible instead of searching
9e907ebd 341 --ignore-config Don't load any more configuration files
342 except those given by --config-locations.
343 For backward compatibility, if this option
344 is found inside the system configuration
fc5fa964 345 file, the user configuration is not loaded.
346 (Alias: --no-config)
9e907ebd 347 --no-config-locations Do not load any custom configuration files
348 (default). When given inside a
349 configuration file, ignore all previous
350 --config-locations defined in the current
351 file
352 --config-locations PATH Location of the main configuration file;
0202b52a 353 either the path to the config or its
9e907ebd 354 containing directory. Can be used multiple
355 times and inside other configuration files
c4af7684 356 --flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
8a51f564 357 only list them
6623ac34 358 --no-flat-playlist Extract the videos of a playlist
adbc4ec4
THD		 359 --live-from-start Download livestreams from the start.
360 Currently only supported for YouTube
9e907ebd 361 (Experimental)
87e04996 362 --no-live-from-start Download livestreams from the current time
363 (default)
91f071af 364 --wait-for-video MIN[-MAX] Wait for scheduled streams to become
365 available. Pass the minimum number of
366 seconds (or range) to wait between retries
367 --no-wait-for-video Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)
b5ae35ee 368 --mark-watched Mark videos watched (even with --simulate).
369 Currently only supported for YouTube
597c1866 370 --no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (default)
8a51f564 371 --no-colors Do not emit color codes in output
53ed7066 372 --compat-options OPTS Options that can help keep compatibility
31654882 373 with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc
53ed7066 374 configurations by reverting some of the
375 changes made in yt-dlp. See "Differences in
376 default behavior" for details
08c1d0d3 377
149f05c7 378## Network Options:
28b4f736 379 --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
0934c9d4
S		 380 To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper
381 scheme. For example
28b4f736
PH		 382 socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty
383 string (--proxy "") for direct connection
149f05c7 384 --socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
c4af7684 385 --source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
c4af7684 386 -4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
c4af7684 387 -6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
8c6c88c7 388
b31fdeed 389## Geo-restriction:
c25f1a9b
S		 390 --geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
391 some geo-restricted sites. The default
392 proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
7550ea50 393 option is not present) is used for the
8a51f564 394 actual downloading
8c6c88c7 395 --geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking
0934c9d4 396 X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
8c6c88c7
S		 397 --no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via
398 faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
8c6c88c7
S		 399 --geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with
400 explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2
0934c9d4 401 country code
9e18bb4c
S		 402 --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with
403 explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
0934c9d4 404 notation
149f05c7 405
cfcec693 406## Video Selection:
1dc2726f
PH		 407 --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
408 --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
c4af7684
PH		 409 --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify
410 indices of the videos in the playlist
411 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
412 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
413 indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
414 specify range: "--playlist-items
415 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
8a51f564 416 at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13
c4af7684
PH		 417 --min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
418 SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
419 --max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
420 (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
0930b11f 421 --date DATE Download only videos uploaded on this date.
6623ac34 422 The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format
423 "(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"
c4af7684 424 --datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before
c76eb41b 425 this date. The date formats accepted is the
426 same as --date
c4af7684 427 --dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after
c76eb41b 428 this date. The date formats accepted is the
429 same as --date
77b87f05
MT		 430 --match-filter FILTER Generic video filter. Any field (see
431 "OUTPUT TEMPLATE") can be compared with a
a047eeb6 432 number or a string using the operators
433 defined in "Filtering formats". You can
434 also simply specify a field to match if the
435 field is present and "!field" to check if
436 the field is not present. In addition,
437 Python style regular expression matching
438 can be done using "~=", and multiple
439 filters can be checked with "&". Use a "\"
440 to escape "&" or quotes if needed. Eg:
441 --match-filter "!is_live & like_count>?100
2e7781a9 442 & description~='(?i)\bcats \& dogs\b'"
a047eeb6 443 matches only videos that are not live, has
444 a like count more than 100 (or the like
77b87f05 445 field is not available), and also has a
a047eeb6 446 description that contains the phrase "cats
447 & dogs" (ignoring case)
c76eb41b 448 --no-match-filter Do not use generic video filter (default)
c4af7684 449 --no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers
8a51f564 450 to a video and a playlist
c4af7684 451 --yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to
8a51f564 452 a video and a playlist
c4af7684
PH		 453 --age-limit YEARS Download only videos suitable for the given
454 age
455 --download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
456 archive file. Record the IDs of all
8a51f564 457 downloaded videos in it
91f071af 458 --no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
459 --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
8b0d7497 460 --break-on-existing Stop the download process when encountering
8a51f564 461 a file that is in the archive
8b0d7497 462 --break-on-reject Stop the download process when encountering
8a51f564 463 a file that has been filtered out
91f071af 464 --break-per-input Make --break-on-existing and --break-on-
465 reject act only on the current input URL
466 --no-break-per-input --break-on-existing and --break-on-reject
467 terminates the entire download queue
26e2805c 468 --skip-playlist-after-errors N Number of allowed failures until the rest
469 of the playlist is skipped
6bcd846b 470
d5a62e4f 471## Download Options:
b31fdeed 472 -N, --concurrent-fragments N Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative
87e04996 473 video that should be downloaded
474 concurrently (default is 1)
5e3856a2 475 -r, --limit-rate RATE Maximum download rate in bytes per second
c4af7684 476 (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
6aecd871 477 --throttled-rate RATE Minimum download rate in bytes per second
478 below which throttling is assumed and the
479 video data is re-extracted (e.g. 100K)
c4af7684 480 -R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is 10), or
8a51f564 481 "infinite"
87e04996 482 --file-access-retries RETRIES Number of times to retry on file access
483 error (default is 10), or "infinite"
0be8314d 484 --fragment-retries RETRIES Number of retries for a fragment (default
b56e41a7
S		 485 is 10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
486 ISM)
6623ac34 487 --skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments for DASH,
488 hlsnative and ISM (default)
8a51f564 489 (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)
6623ac34 490 --abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading if a fragment is unavailable
8a51f564 491 (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)
a82f4184 492 --keep-fragments Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
6623ac34 493 downloading is finished
c76eb41b 494 --no-keep-fragments Delete downloaded fragments after
495 downloading is finished (default)
c4af7684
PH		 496 --buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
497 (default is 1024)
c76eb41b 498 --resize-buffer The buffer size is automatically resized
499 from an initial value of --buffer-size
500 (default)
501 --no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer size
db157d2a
S		 502 --http-chunk-size SIZE Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
503 downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default
504 is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
505 bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
506 (experimental)
2101f5d4 507 --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
6623ac34 508 --no-playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in default order
c76eb41b 509 (default)
31487eb9 510 --playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
c4af7684 511 --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
0934c9d4 512 expected file size
9bd20204 513 --hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos;
514 allowing some players to play the video
515 while downloading, and reducing the chance
516 of file corruption if download is
517 interrupted. This is enabled by default for
518 live streams
519 --no-hls-use-mpegts Do not use the mpegts container for HLS
520 videos. This is default when not
521 downloading live streams
52a8a1e1 522 --downloader [PROTO:]NAME Name or path of the external downloader to
523 use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols
524 (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to
525 use it for. Currently supports native,
526 aria2c, avconv, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie,
527 wget (Recommended: aria2c). You can use
528 this option multiple times to set different
529 downloaders for different protocols. For
530 example, --downloader aria2c --downloader
531 "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for
532 http/ftp downloads, and the native
fc5fa964 533 downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads (Alias:
534 --external-downloader)
46ee996e 535 --downloader-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the external
536 downloader. Specify the downloader name and
330690a2 537 the arguments separated by a colon ":". For
538 ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to
539 different positions using the same syntax
540 as --postprocessor-args. You can use this
541 option multiple times to give different
fc5fa964 542 arguments to different downloaders (Alias:
543 --external-downloader-args)
d5a62e4f 544
cfcec693 545## Filesystem Options:
940a67a3 546 -a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ("-" for
e8dfecb3 547 stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting
940a67a3 548 with "#", ";" or "]" are considered as
8a51f564 549 comments and ignored
1e520b55 550 --no-batch-file Do not read URLs from batch file (default)
6ccf351a 551 -P, --paths [TYPES:]PATH The paths where the files should be
0202b52a 552 downloaded. Specify the type of file and
de6000d9 553 the path separated by a colon ":". All the
6a34813a 554 same TYPES as --output are supported.
de6000d9 555 Additionally, you can also provide "home"
6ccf351a 556 (default) and "temp" paths. All
557 intermediary files are first downloaded to
558 the temp path and then the final files are
559 moved over to the home path after download
560 is finished. This option is ignored if
561 --output is an absolute path
d818eb74 562 -o, --output [TYPES:]TEMPLATE Output filename template; see "OUTPUT
c76eb41b 563 TEMPLATE" for details
0bc0a322 564 --output-na-placeholder TEXT Placeholder value for unavailable meta
565 fields in output filename template
566 (default: "NA")
c4af7684
PH		 567 --restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
568 characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
569 filenames
c76eb41b 570 --no-restrict-filenames Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in
571 filenames (default)
0930b11f 572 --windows-filenames Force filenames to be Windows-compatible
573 --no-windows-filenames Make filenames Windows-compatible only if
574 using Windows (default)
c2934512 575 --trim-filenames LENGTH Limit the filename length (excluding
576 extension) to the specified number of
577 characters
9b45b9f5 578 -w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite any files
579 --force-overwrites Overwrite all video and metadata files.
580 This option includes --no-continue
581 --no-force-overwrites Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite
582 related files (default)
c25228e5 583 -c, --continue Resume partially downloaded files/fragments
584 (default)
585 --no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded
e58c22a0 586 fragments. If the file is not fragmented,
c25228e5 587 restart download of the entire file
c76eb41b 588 --part Use .part files instead of writing directly
6623ac34 589 into output file (default)
c4af7684
PH		 590 --no-part Do not use .part files - write directly
591 into output file
c76eb41b 592 --mtime Use the Last-modified header to set the
593 file modification time (default)
c4af7684
PH		 594 --no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set
595 the file modification time
596 --write-description Write video description to a .description
597 file
6623ac34 598 --no-write-description Do not write video description (default)
1dc2726f 599 --write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
c25228e5 600 (this may contain personal information)
6623ac34 601 --no-write-info-json Do not write video metadata (default)
cac96421 602 --write-playlist-metafiles Write playlist metadata in addition to the
603 video metadata when using --write-info-json,
604 --write-description etc. (default)
605 --no-write-playlist-metafiles Do not write playlist metadata when using
606 --write-info-json, --write-description etc.
75d43ca0 607 --clean-infojson Remove some private fields such as
608 filenames from the infojson. Note that it
609 could still contain some personal
610 information (default)
611 --no-clean-infojson Write all fields to the infojson
2305e2e5 612 --write-comments Retrieve video comments to be placed in the
613 infojson. The comments are fetched even
614 without this option if the extraction is
615 known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)
616 --no-write-comments Do not retrieve video comments unless the
fc5fa964 617 extraction is known to be quick (Alias:
618 --no-get-comments)
d845622b 619 --load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
c4af7684
PH		 620 (created with the "--write-info-json"
621 option)
91f071af 622 --cookies FILE Netscape formatted file to read cookies
623 from and dump cookie jar in
982ee69a
MB		 624 --no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file
625 (default)
f59f5ef8
MB		 626 --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]
627 The name of the browser and (optionally)
628 the name/path of the profile to load
629 cookies from, separated by a ":". Currently
630 supported browsers are: brave, chrome,
631 chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari,
632 vivaldi. By default, the most recently
633 accessed profile is used. The keyring used
634 for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux
635 can be (optionally) specified after the
636 browser name separated by a "+". Currently
637 supported keyrings are: basictext,
638 gnomekeyring, kwallet
982ee69a 639 --no-cookies-from-browser Do not load cookies from browser (default)
6623ac34 640 --cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
3b1fe47d 641 can store some downloaded information (such
642 as client ids and signatures) permanently.
9ee4f0bb 643 By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or
644 ~/.cache/yt-dlp
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PH		 645 --no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
646 --rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
6bcd846b 647
b31fdeed 648## Thumbnail Options:
1dc2726f 649 --write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
6623ac34 650 --no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk
c76eb41b 651 (default)
1dc2726f 652 --write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
34488702 653 --list-thumbnails List available thumbnails of each video.
654 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
2b1bd292 655
732044af 656## Internet Shortcut Options:
8a51f564 657 --write-link Write an internet shortcut file, depending
658 on the current platform (.url, .webloc or
659 .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS
660 --write-url-link Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The
661 OS caches the URL based on the file path
662 --write-webloc-link Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut
663 --write-desktop-link Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut
732044af 664
0744a815 665## Verbosity and Simulation Options:
34488702 666 -q, --quiet Activate quiet mode. If used with
667 --verbose, print the log to stderr
6c072e7d 668 --no-warnings Ignore warnings
c4af7684
PH		 669 -s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write
670 anything to disk
34488702 671 --no-simulate Download the video even if printing/listing
672 options are used
0930b11f 673 --ignore-no-formats-error Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for
674 extracting metadata even if the videos are
675 not actually available for download
0cf05715 676 (experimental)
677 --no-ignore-no-formats-error Throw error when no downloadable video
678 formats are found (default)
e167860c 679 --skip-download Do not download the video but write all
680 related files (Alias: --no-download)
ca30f449 681 -O, --print [WHEN:]TEMPLATE Field name or output template to print to
ed5835b4 682 screen, optionally prefixed with when to
683 print it, separated by a ":". Supported
684 values of "WHEN" are the same as that of
685 --use-postprocessor, and "video" (default).
686 Implies --quiet and --simulate (unless
687 --no-simulate is used). This option can be
688 used multiple times
34488702 689 -j, --dump-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
690 video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is
691 used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a
692 description of available keys
693 -J, --dump-single-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
694 url or infojson passed. Simulate unless
695 --no-simulate is used. If the URL refers to
696 a playlist, the whole playlist information
697 is dumped in a single line
8a51f564 698 --force-write-archive Force download archive entries to be
e58c22a0 699 written as far as no errors occur, even if
700 -s or another simulation option is used
8a51f564 701 (Alias: --force-download-archive)
1dc2726f
PH		 702 --newline Output progress bar as new lines
703 --no-progress Do not print progress bar
819e0531 704 --progress Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode
1dc2726f 705 --console-title Display progress in console titlebar
819e0531 706 --progress-template [TYPES:]TEMPLATE
707 Template for progress outputs, optionally
708 prefixed with one of "download:" (default),
709 "download-title:" (the console title),
710 "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:".
711 The video's fields are accessible under the
712 "info" key and the progress attributes are
0930b11f 713 accessible under "progress" key. E.g.:
819e0531 714 --console-title --progress-template
715 "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"
1dc2726f 716 -v, --verbose Print various debugging information
c4af7684
PH		 717 --dump-pages Print downloaded pages encoded using base64
718 to debug problems (very verbose)
719 --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to
720 files in the current directory to debug
721 problems
780083db 722 --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
6bcd846b 723
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PH		 724## Workarounds:
725 --encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
0930b11f 726 --no-check-certificates Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
c4af7684 727 --prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
e167860c 728 information about the video (Currently
05a7ffb1 729 supported only for YouTube)
1dc2726f 730 --user-agent UA Specify a custom user agent
c4af7684
PH		 731 --referer URL Specify a custom referer, use if the video
732 access is restricted to one domain
733 --add-header FIELD:VALUE Specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
45016689 734 separated by a colon ":". You can use this
c4af7684
PH		 735 option multiple times
736 --bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack
737 bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
738 or fribidi executable in PATH
1cf376f5 739 --sleep-requests SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep between requests
740 during data extraction
c4af7684 741 --sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
e167860c 742 download. This is the minimum time to sleep
743 when used along with --max-sleep-interval
744 (Alias: --min-sleep-interval)
745 --max-sleep-interval SECONDS Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can
746 only be used along with --min-sleep-interval
1cf376f5 747 --sleep-subtitles SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
748 subtitle download
36f35428 749
cfcec693 750## Video Format Options:
eb8a4433 751 -f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION"
752 for more details
753 -S, --format-sort SORTORDER Sort the formats by the fields given, see
754 "Sorting Formats" for more details
8a51f564 755 --S-force, --format-sort-force Force user specified sort order to have
756 precedence over all fields, see "Sorting
eb8a4433 757 Formats" for more details
758 --no-format-sort-force Some fields have precedence over the user
c76eb41b 759 specified sort order (default), see
760 "Sorting Formats" for more details
761 --video-multistreams Allow multiple video streams to be merged
762 into a single file
763 --no-video-multistreams Only one video stream is downloaded for
764 each output file (default)
765 --audio-multistreams Allow multiple audio streams to be merged
766 into a single file
767 --no-audio-multistreams Only one audio stream is downloaded for
768 each output file (default)
da9be05e 769 --prefer-free-formats Prefer video formats with free containers
770 over non-free ones of same quality. Use
771 with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free
772 containers irrespective of quality
773 --no-prefer-free-formats Don't give any special preference to free
774 containers (default)
0930b11f 775 --check-formats Check that the selected formats are
0ba692ac 776 actually downloadable
0930b11f 777 --check-all-formats Check all formats for whether they are
0ba692ac 778 actually downloadable
0930b11f 779 --no-check-formats Do not check that the formats are actually
780 downloadable
34488702 781 -F, --list-formats List available formats of each video.
782 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
c4af7684
PH		 783 --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g.
784 bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given
785 container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg,
786 webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required
8ae7be3e
PH		 787
788## Subtitle Options:
c76eb41b 789 --write-subs Write subtitle file
790 --no-write-subs Do not write subtitle file (default)
791 --write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file
e167860c 792 (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)
793 --no-write-auto-subs Do not write auto-generated subtitles
794 (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)
34488702 795 --list-subs List available subtitles of each video.
796 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
c4af7684
PH		 797 --sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format, accepts formats
798 preference, for example: "srt" or
799 "ass/srt/best"
c32b0aab 800 --sub-langs LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download (can
801 be regex) or "all" separated by commas.
a4211baf 802 (Eg: --sub-langs "en.*,ja") You can prefix
c32b0aab 803 the language code with a "-" to exempt it
fc5fa964 804 from the requested languages. (Eg:
805 --sub-langs all,-live_chat) Use --list-subs
806 for a list of available language tags
6bcd846b 807
cfcec693 808## Authentication Options:
1dc2726f 809 -u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
c4af7684 810 -p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left
7a5c1cfe 811 out, yt-dlp will ask interactively
dc48a354 812 -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor authentication code
1dc2726f 813 -n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
0001fcb5 814 --netrc-location PATH Location of .netrc authentication data;
815 either the path or its containing
816 directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc
29f7c58a 817 --video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, youku)
f5e008d1 818 --ap-mso MSO Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV
909d24dd 819 provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for
820 a list of available MSOs
f5e008d1
S		 821 --ap-username USERNAME Multiple-system operator account login
822 --ap-password PASSWORD Multiple-system operator account password.
c74d1aa3 823 If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask
824 interactively
f5e008d1
S		 825 --ap-list-mso List all supported multiple-system
826 operators
827
c76eb41b 828## Post-Processing Options:
c4af7684 829 -x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
e4172ac9 830 (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
3de7c2ce 831 --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format to convert the audio
832 to when -x is used. Currently supported
833 formats are: best (default) or one of
9222c381 834 best|aac|flac|mp3|m4a|opus|vorbis|wav|alac
e4172ac9 835 --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality, insert a
86c1a8aa 836 value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for
e4172ac9 837 VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K
c4af7684 838 (default 5)
c76eb41b 839 --remux-video FORMAT Remux the video into another container if
29b6000e 840 necessary (currently supported: mp4|mkv|flv
841 |webm|mov|avi|mp3|mka|m4a|ogg|opus). If
842 target container does not support the
06167fbb 843 video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You
3de7c2ce 844 can specify multiple rules; Eg.
06167fbb 845 "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to
846 m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv.
c76eb41b 847 --recode-video FORMAT Re-encode the video into another format if
3de7c2ce 848 re-encoding is necessary. The syntax and
849 supported formats are the same as --remux-video
1b77b347 850 --postprocessor-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessors.
43820c03 851 Specify the postprocessor/executable name
45016689 852 and the arguments separated by a colon ":"
853 to give the argument to the specified
8fa43c73 854 postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are:
7a340e0d
NA		 855 Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters,
856 ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor,
8fa43c73 857 Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail,
858 SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor,
6aecd871 859 FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8,
860 FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. The
8fa43c73 861 supported executables are: AtomicParsley,
9ee4f0bb 862 FFmpeg and FFprobe. You can also specify
7a340e0d
NA		 863 "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the
864 specified executable only when being used
865 by the specified postprocessor.
866 Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o"
867 can be appended to the prefix optionally
868 followed by a number to pass the argument
869 before the specified input/output file. Eg:
870 --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can
871 use this option multiple times to give
e4172ac9 872 different arguments to different
5b1ecbb3 873 postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)
c76eb41b 874 -k, --keep-video Keep the intermediate video file on disk
6623ac34 875 after post-processing
c76eb41b 876 --no-keep-video Delete the intermediate video file after
6623ac34 877 post-processing (default)
878 --post-overwrites Overwrite post-processed files (default)
879 --no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files
0be8314d
PH		 880 --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4,
881 webm and mkv videos)
c76eb41b 882 --no-embed-subs Do not embed subtitles (default)
6aecd871 883 --embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art
6623ac34 884 --no-embed-thumbnail Do not embed thumbnail (default)
9222c381 885 --embed-metadata Embed metadata to the video file. Also
886 embeds chapters/infojson if present unless
887 --no-embed-chapters/--no-embed-info-json
888 are used (Alias: --add-metadata)
7a340e0d 889 --no-embed-metadata Do not add metadata to file (default)
6aecd871 890 (Alias: --no-add-metadata)
7a340e0d
NA		 891 --embed-chapters Add chapter markers to the video file
892 (Alias: --add-chapters)
893 --no-embed-chapters Do not add chapter markers (default)
894 (Alias: --no-add-chapters)
9222c381 895 --embed-info-json Embed the infojson as an attachment to
896 mkv/mka video files
897 --no-embed-info-json Do not embed the infojson as an attachment
898 to the video file
73cd218f 899 --parse-metadata FROM:TO Parse additional metadata like title/artist
900 from other fields; see "MODIFYING METADATA"
901 for details
e9f4ccd1 902 --replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE
903 Replace text in a metadata field using the
904 given regex. This option can be used
905 multiple times
c4af7684
PH		 906 --xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
907 (using dublin core and xdg standards)
3b603dbd 908 --concat-playlist POLICY Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of
fc5fa964 909 "never", "always", or "multi_video"
910 (default; only when the videos form a
3b603dbd 911 single show). All the video files must have
912 same codecs and number of streams to be
913 concatable. The "pl_video:" prefix can be
914 used with "--paths" and "--output" to set
915 the output filename for the split files.
916 See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
c4af7684
PH		 917 --fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the
918 file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only
919 emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the
920 default; fix file if we can, warn
6aecd871 921 otherwise), force (try fixing even if file
87e04996 922 already exists)
e4172ac9 923 --ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the
924 path to the binary or its containing
925 directory
1e43a6f7 926 --exec [WHEN:]CMD Execute a command, optionally prefixed with
927 when to execute it (after_move if
928 unspecified), separated by a ":". Supported
929 values of "WHEN" are the same as that of
930 --use-postprocessor. Same syntax as the
931 output template can be used to pass any
932 field as arguments to the command. After
933 download, an additional field "filepath"
9de3ea31 934 that contains the final path of the
1e43a6f7 935 downloaded file is also available, and if
936 no fields are passed, %(filepath)q is
937 appended to the end of the command. This
34488702 938 option can be used multiple times
1e43a6f7 939 --no-exec Remove any previously defined --exec
e167860c 940 --convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to another format
3de7c2ce 941 (currently supported: srt|vtt|ass|lrc)
e167860c 942 (Alias: --convert-subtitles)
8fa43c73 943 --convert-thumbnails FORMAT Convert the thumbnails to another format
3de7c2ce 944 (currently supported: jpg|png)
72755351 945 --split-chapters Split video into multiple files based on
946 internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix
947 can be used with "--paths" and "--output"
948 to set the output filename for the split
949 files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
950 --no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters
951 (default)
7a340e0d 952 --remove-chapters REGEX Remove chapters whose title matches the
2d9ec704 953 given regular expression. Time ranges
954 prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place
955 of chapters to remove the specified range.
956 Eg: --remove-chapters "*10:15-15:00"
957 --remove-chapters "intro". This option can
7a340e0d 958 be used multiple times
9ee4f0bb 959 --no-remove-chapters Do not remove any chapters from the file
960 (default)
7a340e0d
NA		 961 --force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes around the chapters before
962 removing/splitting them. Requires a
e75bb0d6 963 re-encode and thus is very slow, but the
7a340e0d
NA		 964 resulting video may have fewer artifacts
965 around the cuts
966 --no-force-keyframes-at-cuts Do not force keyframes around the chapters
967 when cutting/splitting (default)
3ae5e797 968 --use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS] The (case sensitive) name of plugin
969 postprocessors to be enabled, and
970 (optionally) arguments to be passed to it,
e75bb0d6 971 separated by a colon ":". ARGS are a
3ae5e797 972 semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE.
973 The "when" argument determines when the
974 postprocessor is invoked. It can be one of
975 "pre_process" (after extraction),
976 "before_dl" (before video download),
977 "post_process" (after video download;
ebed8b37 978 default), "after_move" (after moving file
979 to their final locations), "after_video"
980 (after downloading and processing all
981 formats of a video), or "playlist" (end of
982 playlist). This option can be used multiple
983 times to add different postprocessors
7a340e0d
NA		 984
985## SponsorBlock Options:
986Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor,
987 introductions, etc.) from downloaded YouTube videos using the
8a51f564 988 [SponsorBlock API](https://sponsor.ajay.app)
989
7a340e0d
NA		 990 --sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters
991 for, separated by commas. Available
8157a09d
NA		 992 categories are all, default(=all), sponsor,
993 intro, outro, selfpromo, preview, filler,
994 interaction, music_offtopic, poi_highlight.
995 You can prefix the category with a "-" to
996 exempt it. See [1] for description of the
997 categories. Eg: --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview
998 [1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories
7a340e0d
NA		 999 --sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from
1000 the video file, separated by commas. If a
1001 category is present in both mark and
1002 remove, remove takes precedence. The syntax
1003 and available categories are the same as
8157a09d
NA		 1004 for --sponsorblock-mark except that
1005 "default" refers to "all,-filler" and
1006 poi_highlight is not available
7a340e0d
NA		 1007 --sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
1008 The title template for SponsorBlock
1009 chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark.
1010 The same syntax as the output template is
1011 used, but the only available fields are
1012 start_time, end_time, category, categories,
1013 name, category_names. Defaults to
1014 "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"
1015 --no-sponsorblock Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and
1016 --sponsorblock-remove
1017 --sponsorblock-api URL SponsorBlock API location, defaults to
1018 https://sponsor.ajay.app
a9e7f546 1019
78895bd3 1020## Extractor Options:
5ef7d9bd 1021 --extractor-retries RETRIES Number of retries for known extractor
d6e51845 1022 errors (default is 3), or "infinite"
6623ac34 1023 --allow-dynamic-mpd Process dynamic DASH manifests (default)
8a51f564 1024 (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)
1025 --ignore-dynamic-mpd Do not process dynamic DASH manifests
1026 (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)
e409895f 1027 --hls-split-discontinuity Split HLS playlists to different formats at
1028 discontinuities such as ad breaks
1029 --no-hls-split-discontinuity Do not split HLS playlists to different
1030 formats at discontinuities such as ad
1031 breaks (default)
5d3a0e79 1032 --extractor-args KEY:ARGS Pass these arguments to the extractor. See
1033 "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. You can
1034 use this option multiple times to give
245524e6 1035 arguments for different extractors
17cb02d0 1036
b7770046
U		 1037# CONFIGURATION
1038
7a5c1cfe 1039You can configure yt-dlp by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. The configuration is loaded from the following locations:
e2e43aea 1040
0202b52a 10411. **Main Configuration**: The file given by `--config-location`
7a5c1cfe
P		 10421. **Portable Configuration**: `yt-dlp.conf` in the same directory as the bundled binary. If you are running from source-code (`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py`), the root directory is used instead.
10431. **Home Configuration**: `yt-dlp.conf` in the home path given by `-P "home:<path>"`, or in the current directory if no such path is given
e2e43aea 10441. **User Configuration**:
1045 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Linux/macOS)
1046 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp.conf`
1047 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Windows)
1048 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config.txt`
1049 * `~/yt-dlp.conf`
1050 * `~/yt-dlp.conf.txt`
1051
ec2e44fc 1052 `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%` defaults to `~/.config` if undefined. On windows, `%APPDATA%` generally points to `C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming` and `~` points to `%HOME%` if present, `%USERPROFILE%` (generally `C:\Users\<user name>`), or `%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
07cce701 10531. **System Configuration**: `/etc/yt-dlp.conf`
b7770046 1054
7a5c1cfe 1055For example, with the following configuration file yt-dlp will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `YouTube` directory in your home directory:
b7770046
U		 1056```
1057# Lines starting with # are comments
1058
1059# Always extract audio
1060-x
1061
1062# Do not copy the mtime
1063--no-mtime
1064
1065# Use this proxy
1066--proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
1067
298f597b 1068# Save all videos under YouTube directory in your home directory
1069-o ~/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s
b7770046
U		 1070```
1071
e2e43aea 1072Note 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`.
b7770046 1073
a4211baf 1074You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable all configuration files for a particular yt-dlp run. If `--ignore-config` is found inside any configuration file, no further configuration will be loaded. For example, having the option in the portable configuration file prevents loading of home, user, and system configurations. Additionally, (for backward compatibility) if `--ignore-config` is found inside the system configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded.
b7770046
U		 1075
1076### Authentication with `.netrc` file
1077
0001fcb5 1078You 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 yt-dlp 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 `--netrc-location` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you:
b7770046
U		 1079```
1080touch $HOME/.netrc
1081chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
1082```
1083After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the extractor in lowercase:
1084```
0001fcb5 1085machine <extractor> login <username> password <password>
b7770046
U		 1086```
1087For example:
1088```
1089machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password
1090machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password
1091```
7a5c1cfe 1092To activate authentication with the `.netrc` file you should pass `--netrc` to yt-dlp or place it in the [configuration file](#configuration).
b7770046 1093
0001fcb5 1094The default location of the .netrc file is `$HOME` (`~`) in UNIX. On Windows, it is `%HOME%` if present, `%USERPROFILE%` (generally `C:\Users\<user name>`) or `%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
b7770046
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1096# OUTPUT TEMPLATE
1097
0202b52a 1098The `-o` option is used to indicate a template for the output file names while `-P` option is used to specify the path each type of file should be saved to.
b7770046 1099
ec2e44fc 1100<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
b7770046 1101**tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples).
ec2e44fc 1102<!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
b7770046 1103
e58c22a0 1104The simplest usage of `-o` is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in `yt-dlp -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"` (hard-coding file extension like this is _not_ recommended and could break some post-processing).
a439a3a4 1105
0930b11f 1106It may however also 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/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-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.
a439a3a4 1107
1108The field names themselves (the part inside the parenthesis) can also have some special formatting:
2b8a2973 11091. **Object traversal**: The dictionaries and lists available in metadata can be traversed by using a `.` (dot) separator. You can also do python slicing using `:`. Eg: `%(tags.0)s`, `%(subtitles.en.-1.ext)s`, `%(id.3:7:-1)s`, `%(formats.:.format_id)s`. `%()s` refers to the entire infodict. Note that all the fields that become available using this method are not listed below. Use `-j` to see such fields
ec2e44fc 1110
e625be0d 11111. **Addition**: Addition and subtraction of numeric fields can be done using `+` and `-` respectively. Eg: `%(playlist_index+10)03d`, `%(n_entries+1-playlist_index)d`
ec2e44fc 1112
e625be0d 11131. **Date/time Formatting**: Date/time fields can be formatted according to [strftime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) by specifying it separated from the field name using a `>`. Eg: `%(duration>%H-%M-%S)s`, `%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s`, `%(epoch-3600>%H-%M-%S)s`
ec2e44fc 1114
e75bb0d6 11151. **Alternatives**: Alternate fields can be specified separated with a `,`. Eg: `%(release_date>%Y,upload_date>%Y|Unknown)s`
ec2e44fc 1116
e978789f
P		 11171. **Replacement**: A replacement value can specified using a `&` separator. If the field is *not* empty, this replacement value will be used instead of the actual field content. This is done after alternate fields are considered; thus the replacement is used if *any* of the alternative fields is *not* empty.
1118
e75bb0d6 11191. **Default**: A literal default value can be specified for when the field is empty using a `|` separator. This overrides `--output-na-template`. Eg: `%(uploader|Unknown)s`
ec2e44fc 1120
abbeeebc 11211. **More Conversions**: In addition to the normal format types `diouxXeEfFgGcrs`, `B`, `j`, `l`, `q`, `D`, `S` can be used for converting to **B**ytes, **j**son (flag `#` for pretty-printing), a comma separated **l**ist (flag `#` for `\n` newline-separated), a string **q**uoted for the terminal (flag `#` to split a list into different arguments), to add **D**ecimal suffixes (Eg: 10M) (flag `#` to use 1024 as factor), and to **S**anitize as filename (flag `#` for restricted), respectively
ec2e44fc 1122
524e2e4f 11231. **Unicode normalization**: The format type `U` can be used for NFC [unicode normalization](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unicodedata.html#unicodedata.normalize). The alternate form flag (`#`) changes the normalization to NFD and the conversion flag `+` can be used for NFKC/NFKD compatibility equivalence normalization. Eg: `%(title)+.100U` is NFKC
a439a3a4 1124
1125To summarize, the general syntax for a field is:
1126```
e978789f 1127%(name[.keys][addition][>strf][,alternate][&replacement][|default])[flags][width][.precision][length]type
a439a3a4 1128```
de6000d9 1129
3b603dbd 1130Additionally, you can set different output templates for the various metadata files separately from the general output template by specifying the type of file followed by the template separated by a colon `:`. The different file types supported are `subtitle`, `thumbnail`, `description`, `annotation` (deprecated), `infojson`, `link`, `pl_thumbnail`, `pl_description`, `pl_infojson`, `chapter`, `pl_video`. For example, `-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -o "thumbnail:%(title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s"` will put the thumbnails in a folder with the same name as the video. If any of the templates (except default) is empty, that type of file will not be written. Eg: `--write-thumbnail -o "thumbnail:"` will write thumbnails only for playlists and not for video.
e29663c6 1131
1132The available fields are:
b7770046
U		 1133
1134 - `id` (string): Video identifier
1135 - `title` (string): Video title
1136 - `url` (string): Video URL
1137 - `ext` (string): Video filename extension
1138 - `alt_title` (string): A secondary title of the video
597c1866 1139 - `description` (string): The description of the video
b7770046
U		 1140 - `display_id` (string): An alternative identifier for the video
1141 - `uploader` (string): Full name of the video uploader
1142 - `license` (string): License name the video is licensed under
1143 - `creator` (string): The creator of the video
b7770046
U		 1144 - `timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
1145 - `upload_date` (string): Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
e6f21b3d 1146 - `release_timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was released
f0d785d3 1147 - `release_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
1148 - `modified_timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was last modified
1149 - `modified_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was last modified
b7770046
U		 1150 - `uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader
1151 - `channel` (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on
1152 - `channel_id` (string): Id of the channel
6c73052c 1153 - `channel_follower_count` (numeric): Number of followers of the channel
b7770046
U		 1154 - `location` (string): Physical location where the video was filmed
1155 - `duration` (numeric): Length of the video in seconds
53c18592 1156 - `duration_string` (string): Length of the video (HH:mm:ss)
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1158 - `like_count` (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video
1159 - `dislike_count` (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the video
1160 - `repost_count` (numeric): Number of reposts of the video
1161 - `average_rating` (numeric): Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage
277d6ff5 1162 - `comment_count` (numeric): Number of comments on the video (For some extractors, comments are only downloaded at the end, and so this field cannot be used)
b7770046 1163 - `age_limit` (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
940a67a3 1164 - `live_status` (string): One of "is_live", "was_live", "is_upcoming", "not_live"
b7770046 1165 - `is_live` (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video
f76ede8e 1166 - `was_live` (boolean): Whether this video was originally a live stream
6cfda058 1167 - `playable_in_embed` (string): Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded players on other sites
940a67a3 1168 - `availability` (string): Whether the video is "private", "premium_only", "subscriber_only", "needs_auth", "unlisted" or "public"
b7770046
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1170 - `end_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL
29b6000e 1171 - `format` (string): A human-readable description of the format
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1173 - `format_note` (string): Additional info about the format
1174 - `width` (numeric): Width of the video
1175 - `height` (numeric): Height of the video
1176 - `resolution` (string): Textual description of width and height
1177 - `tbr` (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1178 - `abr` (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1179 - `acodec` (string): Name of the audio codec in use
1180 - `asr` (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1181 - `vbr` (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1182 - `fps` (numeric): Frame rate
176f1866 1183 - `dynamic_range` (string): The dynamic range of the video
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1185 - `container` (string): Name of the container format
1186 - `filesize` (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance
1187 - `filesize_approx` (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes
1188 - `protocol` (string): The protocol that will be used for the actual download
1189 - `extractor` (string): Name of the extractor
1190 - `extractor_key` (string): Key name of the extractor
1191 - `epoch` (numeric): Unix epoch when creating the file
1192 - `autonumber` (numeric): Number that will be increased with each download, starting at `--autonumber-start`
9c906919 1193 - `video_autonumber` (numeric): Number that will be increased with each video
e6f21b3d 1194 - `n_entries` (numeric): Total number of extracted items in the playlist
b7770046 1195 - `playlist` (string): Name or id of the playlist that contains the video
f0d785d3 1196 - `playlist_count` (numeric): Total number of items in the playlist. May not be known if entire playlist is not extracted
e6f21b3d 1197 - `playlist_index` (numeric): Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according the final index
1198 - `playlist_autonumber` (numeric): Position of the video in the playlist download queue padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
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1200 - `playlist_title` (string): Playlist title
1201 - `playlist_uploader` (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
1202 - `playlist_uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader
bd99f6e6 1203 - `webpage_url` (string): A URL to the video webpage which if given to yt-dlp should allow to get the same result again
0bb322b9 1204 - `webpage_url_basename` (string): The basename of the webpage URL
1205 - `webpage_url_domain` (string): The domain of the webpage URL
bd99f6e6 1206 - `original_url` (string): The URL given by the user (or same as `webpage_url` for playlist entries)
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1208Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
1209
1210 - `chapter` (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
1211 - `chapter_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to
1212 - `chapter_id` (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
1213
1214Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
1215
1216 - `series` (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
1217 - `season` (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to
1218 - `season_number` (numeric): Number of the season the video episode belongs to
1219 - `season_id` (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to
1220 - `episode` (string): Title of the video episode
1221 - `episode_number` (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season
1222 - `episode_id` (string): Id of the video episode
1223
1224Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
1225
1226 - `track` (string): Title of the track
1227 - `track_number` (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a disc
1228 - `track_id` (string): Id of the track
1229 - `artist` (string): Artist(s) of the track
1230 - `genre` (string): Genre(s) of the track
1231 - `album` (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
1232 - `album_type` (string): Type of the album
1233 - `album_artist` (string): List of all artists appeared on the album
1234 - `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
1235 - `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
1236
b050d210 1237Available for `chapter:` prefix when using `--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
72755351 1238
1239 - `section_title` (string): Title of the chapter
1240 - `section_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
1241 - `section_start` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1242 - `section_end` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1243
53c18592 1244Available only when used in `--print`:
1245
1246 - `urls` (string): The URLs of all requested formats, one in each line
1247 - `filename` (string): Name of the video file. Note that the actual filename may be different due to post-processing. Use `--exec echo` to get the name after all postprocessing is complete
ed5835b4 1248 - `formats_table` (table): The video format table as printed by `--list-formats`
1249 - `thumbnails_table` (table): The thumbnail format table as printed by `--list-thumbnails`
1250 - `subtitles_table` (table): The subtitle format table as printed by `--list-subs`
1251 - `automatic_captions_table` (table): The automatic subtitle format table as printed by `--list-subs`
1252
7a340e0d
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1254Available only in `--sponsorblock-chapter-title`:
1255
1256 - `start_time` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1257 - `end_time` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1258 - `categories` (list): The SponsorBlock categories the chapter belongs to
1259 - `category` (string): The smallest SponsorBlock category the chapter belongs to
1260 - `category_names` (list): Friendly names of the categories
1261 - `name` (string): Friendly name of the smallest category
53c18592 1262
49a57e70 1263Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. For example for `-o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s` and an mp4 video with title `yt-dlp test video` and id `BaW_jenozKc`, this will result in a `yt-dlp test video-BaW_jenozKc.mp4` file created in the current directory.
1264
1265Note 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 placeholder value provided with `--output-na-placeholder` (`NA` by default).
b7770046 1266
0930b11f 1267**Tip**: Look at the `-j` output to identify which fields are available for the particular URL
b7770046 1268
49a57e70 1269For numeric sequences you can use [numeric related formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting), for example, `%(view_count)05d` will result in a string with view count padded with zeros up to 5 characters, like in `00042`.
b7770046 1270
940a67a3 1271Output 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.
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1273To use percent literals in an output template use `%%`. To output to stdout use `-o -`.
1274
91ebc640 1275The current default template is `%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`.
b7770046 1276
f304da8a 1277In 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.
b7770046 1278
ec2e44fc 1279<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
b7770046
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1281
1282If 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"`.
ec2e44fc 1283<!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
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1285#### Output template examples
1286
b7770046 1287```bash
940a67a3 1288$ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "test video.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
9222c381 1289test video.webm # Literal name with correct extension
1290
940a67a3 1291$ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
9222c381 1292youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.webm # All kinds of weird characters
b7770046 1293
940a67a3 1294$ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
9222c381 1295youtube-dl_test_video_.webm # Restricted file name
b7770046
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1297# Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist
940a67a3 1298$ yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
b7770046 1299
b050d210 1300# Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directories according to their uploaded year
940a67a3 1301$ yt-dlp -o "%(upload_date>%Y)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
e29663c6 1302
e978789f 1303# Prefix playlist index with " - " separator, but only if it is available
6a34813a 1304$ yt-dlp -o '%(playlist_index|)s%(playlist_index& - |)s%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc "https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists"
e978789f 1305
b7770046 1306# Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:
940a67a3 1307$ yt-dlp -o "%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists"
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1309# Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
940a67a3 1310$ yt-dlp -u user -p password -P "~/MyVideos" -o "%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial"
b7770046
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1312# Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
940a67a3 1313$ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" "https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617"
b7770046 1314
6a34813a 1315# Download video as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\title.ext", subtitles as "C:\MyVideos\subs\uploader\title.ext"
1316# and put all temporary files in "C:\MyVideos\tmp"
1317$ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -P "temp:tmp" -P "subtitle:subs" -o "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenoz --write-subs
1318
1319# Download video as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\title.ext" and subtitles as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\subs\title.ext"
1320$ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -o "subtitle:%(uploader)s/subs/%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --write-subs
1321
b7770046 1322# Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
7a5c1cfe 1323$ yt-dlp -o - BaW_jenozKc
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1325
1326# FORMAT SELECTION
1327
7a5c1cfe
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1329This is generally equivalent to using `-f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best`. However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (`--audio-multistreams`), the default format changes to `-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best`. Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp to stream to `stdout` (`-o -`), the default becomes `-f best/bestvideo+bestaudio`.
b7770046 1330
c111cefa 1331**Deprecation warning**: Latest versions of yt-dlp can stream multiple formats to the stdout simultaneously using ffmpeg. So, in future versions, the default for this will be set to `-f bv*+ba/b` similar to normal downloads. If you want to preserve the `-f b/bv+ba` setting, it is recommended to explicitly specify it in the configuration options.
1332
eff63539 1333The general syntax for format selection is `-f FORMAT` (or `--format FORMAT`) where `FORMAT` is a *selector expression*, i.e. an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download.
b7770046 1334
ec2e44fc 1335<!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
b7770046 1336**tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#format-selection-examples).
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b7770046 1338
a439a3a4 1339The 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.
b7770046
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1341You 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.
1342
fa9f30b8 1343You can use `-f -` to interactively provide the format selector *for each video*
1344
b7770046
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1346
59a7a13e 1347 - `all`: Select **all formats** separately
1348 - `mergeall`: Select and **merge all formats** (Must be used with `--audio-multistreams`, `--video-multistreams` or both)
1349 - `b*`, `best*`: Select the best quality format that **contains either** a video or an audio
1350 - `b`, `best`: Select the best quality format that **contains both** video and audio. Equivalent to `best*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
1351 - `bv`, `bestvideo`: Select the best quality **video-only** format. Equivalent to `best*[acodec=none]`
1352 - `bv*`, `bestvideo*`: Select the best quality format that **contains video**. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to `best*[vcodec!=none]`
1353 - `ba`, `bestaudio`: Select the best quality **audio-only** format. Equivalent to `best*[vcodec=none]`
1354 - `ba*`, `bestaudio*`: Select the best quality format that **contains audio**. It may also contain video. Equivalent to `best*[acodec!=none]`
1355 - `w*`, `worst*`: Select the worst quality format that contains either a video or an audio
909d24dd 1356 - `w`, `worst`: Select the worst quality format that contains both video and audio. Equivalent to `worst*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
909d24dd 1357 - `wv`, `worstvideo`: Select the worst quality video-only format. Equivalent to `worst*[acodec=none]`
909d24dd 1358 - `wv*`, `worstvideo*`: Select the worst quality format that contains video. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to `worst*[vcodec!=none]`
909d24dd 1359 - `wa`, `worstaudio`: Select the worst quality audio-only format. Equivalent to `worst*[vcodec=none]`
909d24dd 1360 - `wa*`, `worstaudio*`: Select the worst quality format that contains audio. It may also contain video. Equivalent to `worst*[acodec!=none]`
b7770046 1361
e58c22a0 1362For example, to download the worst quality video-only format you can use `-f worstvideo`. It is however recommended not to use `worst` and related options. When your format selector is `worst`, the format which is worst in all respects is selected. Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the smallest filesize instead. So it is generally better to use `-f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps` instead of `-f worst`. See [sorting formats](#sorting-formats) for more details.
eff63539 1363
1364You can select the n'th best format of a type by using `best<type>.<n>`. For example, `best.2` will select the 2nd best combined format. Similarly, `bv*.3` will select the 3rd best format that contains a video stream.
b7770046 1365
eb8a4433 1366If 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 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.
b7770046
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1368If 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`.
1369
d806c9fd 1370You can merge the video and audio of multiple formats into a single file using `-f <format1>+<format2>+...` (requires ffmpeg installed), for example `-f bestvideo+bestaudio` will download the best video-only format, the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg.
1371
1372**Deprecation warning**: Since the *below* described behavior is complex and counter-intuitive, this will be removed and multistreams will be enabled by default in the future. A new operator will be instead added to limit formats to single audio/video
1373
1374Unless `--video-multistreams` is used, all formats with a video stream except the first one are ignored. Similarly, unless `--audio-multistreams` is used, all formats with an audio stream except the first one are ignored. For example, `-f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --video-multistreams --audio-multistreams` will download and merge all 3 given formats. The resulting file will have 2 video streams and 2 audio streams. But `-f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --no-video-multistreams` will download and merge only `bestvideo` and `bestaudio`. `best` is ignored since another format containing a video stream (`bestvideo`) has already been selected. The order of the formats is therefore important. `-f best+bestaudio --no-audio-multistreams` will download and merge both formats while `-f bestaudio+best --no-audio-multistreams` will ignore `best` and download only `bestaudio`.
eb8a4433 1375
1376## Filtering Formats
1377
b7770046
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1379
1380The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons `<`, `<=`, `>`, `>=`, `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals):
1381
1382 - `filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
1383 - `width`: Width of the video, if known
1384 - `height`: Height of the video, if known
1385 - `tbr`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1386 - `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1387 - `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1388 - `asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1389 - `fps`: Frame rate
1390
1391Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `^=` (starts with), `$=` (ends with), `*=` (contains) and following string meta fields:
1392
1393 - `ext`: File extension
1394 - `acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
1395 - `vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
1396 - `container`: Name of the container format
1397 - `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`)
1398 - `format_id`: A short description of the format
29f7c58a 1399 - `language`: Language code
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1401Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation `!` in order to produce an opposite comparison, e.g. `!*=` (does not contain).
1402
e58c22a0 1403Note 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 website. Any other field made available by the extractor can also be used for filtering.
b7770046 1404
e094cec1 1405Formats 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 also use the filters with `all` to download all formats that satisfy the filter. For example, `-f "all[vcodec=none]"` selects all audio-only formats.
b7770046 1406
940a67a3 1407Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best pre-merged mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use `-f "(mp4,webm)[height<480]"`.
b7770046 1408
eb8a4433 1409## Sorting Formats
1410
2e7781a9 1411You can change the criteria for being considered the `best` by using `-S` (`--format-sort`). The general format for this is `--format-sort field1,field2...`.
1412
1413The available fields are:
eb8a4433 1414
63be1aab 1415 - `hasvid`: Gives priority to formats that has a video stream
1416 - `hasaud`: Gives priority to formats that has a audio stream
ed8d87f9 1417 - `ie_pref`: The format preference
1418 - `lang`: The language preference
1419 - `quality`: The quality of the format
1420 - `source`: The preference of the source
d80d98e7 1421 - `proto`: Protocol used for download (`https`/`ftps` > `http`/`ftp` > `m3u8_native`/`m3u8` > `http_dash_segments`> `websocket_frag` > `mms`/`rtsp` > `f4f`/`f4m`)
1422 - `vcodec`: Video Codec (`av01` > `vp9.2` > `vp9` > `h265` > `h264` > `vp8` > `h263` > `theora` > other)
1423 - `acodec`: Audio Codec (`flac`/`alac` > `wav`/`aiff` > `opus` > `vorbis` > `aac` > `mp4a` > `mp3` > `eac3` > `ac3` > `dts` > other)
eb8a4433 1424 - `codec`: Equivalent to `vcodec,acodec`
d80d98e7 1425 - `vext`: Video Extension (`mp4` > `webm` > `flv` > other). If `--prefer-free-formats` is used, `webm` is preferred.
1426 - `aext`: Audio Extension (`m4a` > `aac` > `mp3` > `ogg` > `opus` > `webm` > other). If `--prefer-free-formats` is used, the order changes to `opus` > `ogg` > `webm` > `m4a` > `mp3` > `aac`.
63be1aab 1427 - `ext`: Equivalent to `vext,aext`
0930b11f 1428 - `filesize`: Exact filesize, if known in advance
63be1aab 1429 - `fs_approx`: Approximate filesize calculated from the manifests
1430 - `size`: Exact filesize if available, otherwise approximate filesize
eb8a4433 1431 - `height`: Height of video
1432 - `width`: Width of video
63be1aab 1433 - `res`: Video resolution, calculated as the smallest dimension.
1434 - `fps`: Framerate of video
49a57e70 1435 - `hdr`: The dynamic range of the video (`DV` > `HDR12` > `HDR10+` > `HDR10` > `HLG` > `SDR`)
63be1aab 1436 - `tbr`: Total average bitrate in KBit/s
1437 - `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1438 - `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1439 - `br`: Equivalent to using `tbr,vbr,abr`
1440 - `asr`: Audio sample rate in Hz
d806c9fd 1441
1442**Deprecation warning**: Many of these fields have (currently undocumented) aliases, that may be removed in a future version. It is recommended to use only the documented field names.
eb8a4433 1443
9ee4f0bb 1444All fields, unless specified otherwise, are sorted in descending order. To reverse this, prefix the field with a `+`. Eg: `+res` prefers format with the smallest resolution. Additionally, you can suffix a preferred value for the fields, separated by a `:`. Eg: `res:720` prefers larger videos, but no larger than 720p and the smallest video if there are no videos less than 720p. For `codec` and `ext`, you can provide two preferred values, the first for video and the second for audio. Eg: `+codec:avc:m4a` (equivalent to `+vcodec:avc,+acodec:m4a`) sets the video codec preference to `h264` > `h265` > `vp9` > `vp9.2` > `av01` > `vp8` > `h263` > `theora` and audio codec preference to `mp4a` > `aac` > `vorbis` > `opus` > `mp3` > `ac3` > `dts`. You can also make the sorting prefer the nearest values to the provided by using `~` as the delimiter. Eg: `filesize~1G` prefers the format with filesize closest to 1 GiB.
1445
176f1866 1446The fields `hasvid` and `ie_pref` are always given highest priority in sorting, irrespective of the user-defined order. This behaviour can be changed by using `--format-sort-force`. Apart from these, the default order used is: `lang,quality,res,fps,hdr:12,codec:vp9.2,size,br,asr,proto,ext,hasaud,source,id`. The extractors may override this default order, but they cannot override the user-provided order.
eb8a4433 1447
e75bb0d6 1448Note that the default has `codec:vp9.2`; i.e. `av1` is not preferred. Similarly, the default for hdr is `hdr:12`; i.e. dolby vision is not preferred. These choices are made since DV and AV1 formats are not yet fully compatible with most devices. This may be changed in the future as more devices become capable of smoothly playing back these formats.
eb8a4433 1449
e58c22a0 1450If your format selector is `worst`, the last item is selected after sorting. This means it will select the format that is worst in all respects. Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the smallest filesize instead. So it is generally better to use `-f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps`.
eb8a4433 1451
1452**Tip**: You can use the `-v -F` to see how the formats have been sorted (worst to best).
1453
eb8a4433 1454## Format Selection examples
b7770046 1455
b7770046 1456```bash
e58c22a0 1457# Download and merge the best video-only format and the best audio-only format,
909d24dd 1458# or download the best combined format if video-only format is not available
940a67a3 1459$ yt-dlp -f "bv+ba/b"
909d24dd 1460
1461# Download best format that contains video,
1462# and if it doesn't already have an audio stream, merge it with best audio-only format
940a67a3 1463$ yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b"
2af884ff 1464
1465# Same as above
7a5c1cfe 1466$ yt-dlp
909d24dd 1467
6fd35a11 1468# Download the best video-only format and the best audio-only format without merging them
1469# For this case, an output template should be used since
1470# by default, bestvideo and bestaudio will have the same file name.
940a67a3 1471$ yt-dlp -f "bv,ba" -o "%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s"
909d24dd 1472
f8d4ad9a 1473# Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1474# and all audio-only formats into one file
940a67a3 1475$ yt-dlp -f "bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]" --audio-multistreams
f8d4ad9a 1476
1477# Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1478# and the best 2 audio-only formats into one file
940a67a3 1479$ yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba+ba.2" --audio-multistreams
909d24dd 1480
6fd35a11 1481
1482# The following examples show the old method (without -S) of format selection
f8d4ad9a 1483# and how to use -S to achieve a similar but (generally) better result
6fd35a11 1484
1485# Download the worst video available (old method)
940a67a3 1486$ yt-dlp -f "wv*+wa/w"
eb8a4433 1487
1488# Download the best video available but with the smallest resolution
940a67a3 1489$ yt-dlp -S "+res"
eb8a4433 1490
1491# Download the smallest video available
940a67a3 1492$ yt-dlp -S "+size,+br"
eb8a4433 1493
1494
909d24dd 1495
eb8a4433 1496# Download the best mp4 video available, or the best video if no mp4 available
940a67a3 1497$ yt-dlp -f "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] / bv*+ba/b"
eb8a4433 1498
1499# Download the best video with the best extension
1500# (For video, mp4 > webm > flv. For audio, m4a > aac > mp3 ...)
940a67a3 1501$ yt-dlp -S "ext"
eb8a4433 1502
1503
909d24dd 1504
eb8a4433 1505# Download the best video available but no better than 480p,
1506# or the worst video if there is no video under 480p
940a67a3 1507$ yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w"
b7770046 1508
eb8a4433 1509# Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p,
1510# or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
940a67a3 1511$ yt-dlp -S "height:480"
b7770046 1512
eb8a4433 1513# Download the best video available with the largest resolution but no better than 480p,
1514# or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1515# Resolution is determined by using the smallest dimension.
1516# So this works correctly for vertical videos as well
940a67a3 1517$ yt-dlp -S "res:480"
b7770046 1518
b7770046 1519
909d24dd 1520
eb8a4433 1521# Download the best video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1522# or the worst video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
940a67a3 1523$ yt-dlp -f "b[filesize<50M] / w"
eb8a4433 1524
1525# Download largest video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1526# or the smallest video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
940a67a3 1527$ yt-dlp -f "b" -S "filesize:50M"
eb8a4433 1528
1529# Download best video (that also has audio) that is closest in size to 50 MB
940a67a3 1530$ yt-dlp -f "b" -S "filesize~50M"
eb8a4433 1531
1532
909d24dd 1533
eb8a4433 1534# Download best video available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol,
1535# or the best video available via any protocol if there is no such video
940a67a3 1536$ yt-dlp -f "(bv*+ba/b)[protocol^=http][protocol!*=dash] / (bv*+ba/b)"
eb8a4433 1537
1538# Download best video available via the best protocol
1539# (https/ftps > http/ftp > m3u8_native > m3u8 > http_dash_segments ...)
940a67a3 1540$ yt-dlp -S "proto"
eb8a4433 1541
1542
909d24dd 1543
eb8a4433 1544# Download the best video with h264 codec, or the best video if there is no such video
940a67a3 1545$ yt-dlp -f "(bv*+ba/b)[vcodec^=avc1] / (bv*+ba/b)"
eb8a4433 1546
1547# Download the best video with best codec no better than h264,
1548# or the best video with worst codec if there is no such video
940a67a3 1549$ yt-dlp -S "codec:h264"
eb8a4433 1550
1551# Download the best video with worst codec no worse than h264,
1552# or the best video with best codec if there is no such video
940a67a3 1553$ yt-dlp -S "+codec:h264"
eb8a4433 1554
1555
1556
1557# More complex examples
1558
e58c22a0 1559# Download the best video no better than 720p preferring framerate greater than 30,
1560# or the worst video (still preferring framerate greater than 30) if there is no such video
940a67a3 1561$ yt-dlp -f "((bv*[fps>30]/bv*)[height<=720]/(wv*[fps>30]/wv*)) + ba / (b[fps>30]/b)[height<=720]/(w[fps>30]/w)"
eb8a4433 1562
1563# Download the video with the largest resolution no better than 720p,
f8d4ad9a 1564# or the video with the smallest resolution available if there is no such video,
e58c22a0 1565# preferring larger framerate for formats with the same resolution
940a67a3 1566$ yt-dlp -S "res:720,fps"
eb8a4433 1567
1568
909d24dd 1569
eb8a4433 1570# Download the video with smallest resolution no worse than 480p,
1571# or the video with the largest resolution available if there is no such video,
e58c22a0 1572# preferring better codec and then larger total bitrate for the same resolution
940a67a3 1573$ yt-dlp -S "+res:480,codec,br"
b7770046 1574```
eb8a4433 1575
73cd218f 1576# MODIFYING METADATA
1577
a4211baf 1578The metadata obtained by the extractors can be modified by using `--parse-metadata` and `--replace-in-metadata`
e9f4ccd1 1579
418964fa 1580`--replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE` is used to replace text in any metadata field using [python regular expression](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax). [Backreferences](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html?highlight=backreferences#re.sub) can be used in the replace string for advanced use.
e9f4ccd1 1581
2e7781a9 1582The general syntax of `--parse-metadata FROM:TO` is to give the name of a field or an [output template](#output-template) to extract data from, and the format to interpret it as, separated by a colon `:`. Either a [python regular expression](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax) with named capture groups or a similar syntax to the [output template](#output-template) (only `%(field)s` formatting is supported) can be used for `TO`. The option can be used multiple times to parse and modify various fields.
73cd218f 1583
1584Note that any field created by this can be used in the [output template](#output-template) and will also affect the media file's metadata added when using `--add-metadata`.
1585
9c2b75b5 1586This option also has a few special uses:
28b0eb0f 1587* You can download an additional URL based on the metadata of the currently downloaded video. To do this, set the field `additional_urls` to the URL that you want to download. Eg: `--parse-metadata "description:(?P<additional_urls>https?://www\.vimeo\.com/\d+)` will download the first vimeo video found in the description
88968992 1588* You can use this to change the metadata that is embedded in the media file. To do this, set the value of the corresponding field with a `meta_` prefix. For example, any value you set to `meta_description` field will be added to the `description` field in the file. For example, you can use this to set a different "description" and "synopsis". To modify the metadata of individual streams, use the `meta<n>_` prefix (Eg: `meta1_language`). Any value set to the `meta_` field will overwrite all default values.
c31be5b0 1589
1590For reference, these are the fields yt-dlp adds by default to the file metadata:
1591
1592Metadata fields|From
1593:---|:---
1594`title`|`track` or `title`
1595`date`|`upload_date`
1596`description`, `synopsis`|`description`
1597`purl`, `comment`|`webpage_url`
1598`track`|`track_number`
1599`artist`|`artist`, `creator`, `uploader` or `uploader_id`
1600`genre`|`genre`
1601`album`|`album`
1602`album_artist`|`album_artist`
1603`disc`|`disc_number`
1604`show`|`series`
1605`season_number`|`season_number`
1606`episode_id`|`episode` or `episode_id`
1607`episode_sort`|`episode_number`
1608`language` of each stream|From the format's `language`
1609**Note**: The file format may not support some of these fields
1610
73cd218f 1611
1612## Modifying metadata examples
1613
73cd218f 1614```bash
1615# Interpret the title as "Artist - Title"
940a67a3 1616$ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "title:%(artist)s - %(title)s"
73cd218f 1617
1618# Regex example
940a67a3 1619$ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:Artist - (?P<artist>.+)"
73cd218f 1620
1621# Set title as "Series name S01E05"
940a67a3 1622$ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "%(series)s S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d:%(title)s"
73cd218f 1623
1624# Set "comment" field in video metadata using description instead of webpage_url
940a67a3 1625$ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)" --add-metadata
73cd218f 1626
0930b11f 1627# Remove "formats" field from the infojson by setting it to an empty string
940a67a3 1628$ yt-dlp --parse-metadata ":(?P<formats>)" -j
0930b11f 1629
e9f4ccd1 1630# Replace all spaces and "_" in title and uploader with a `-`
940a67a3 1631$ yt-dlp --replace-in-metadata "title,uploader" "[ _]" "-"
e9f4ccd1 1632
73cd218f 1633```
1634
5d3a0e79 1635# EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS
1636
59a7a13e 1637Some extractors accept additional arguments which can be passed using `--extractor-args KEY:ARGS`. `ARGS` is a `;` (semicolon) separated string of `ARG=VAL1,VAL2`. Eg: `--extractor-args "youtube:player-client=android_agegate,web;include_live_dash" --extractor-args "funimation:version=uncut"`
5d3a0e79 1638
1639The following extractors use this feature:
96565c7e 1640
1641#### youtube
1642* `skip`: `hls` or `dash` (or both) to skip download of the respective manifests
d0d012d4 1643* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are `web`, `android`, `ios`, `mweb`. These also have `_music`, `_embedded`, `_agegate`, and `_creator` variants (Eg: `web_embedded`) (`mweb` has only `_agegate`). By default, `android,web` is used, but the agegate and creator variants are added as required for age-gated videos. Similarly the music variants are added for `music.youtube.com` urls. You can also use `all` to use all the clients, and `default` for the default clients.
96565c7e 1644* `player_skip`: Skip some network requests that are generally needed for robust extraction. One or more of `configs` (skip client configs), `webpage` (skip initial webpage), `js` (skip js player). While these options can help reduce the number of requests needed or avoid some rate-limiting, they could cause some issues. See [#860](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/860) for more details
adbc4ec4 1645* `include_live_dash`: Include live dash formats even without `--live-from-start` (These formats don't download properly)
96565c7e 1646* `comment_sort`: `top` or `new` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
e75bb0d6 1647* `max_comments`: Limit the amount of comments to gather. Comma-separated list of integers representing `max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread`. Default is `all,all,all,all`.
46383212 1648 * E.g. `all,all,1000,10` will get a maximum of 1000 replies total, with up to 10 replies per thread. `1000,all,100` will get a maximum of 1000 comments, with a maximum of 100 replies total.
1649* `max_comment_depth` Maximum depth for nested comments. YouTube supports depths 1 or 2 (default)
1650 * **Deprecated**: Set `max-replies` to `0` or `all` in `max_comments` instead (e.g. `max_comments=all,all,0` to get no replies)
96565c7e 1651
1652#### youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
1653* `skip`: One or more of `webpage` (skip initial webpage download), `authcheck` (allow the download of playlists requiring authentication when no initial webpage is downloaded. This may cause unwanted behavior, see [#1122](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/1122) for more details)
1654
1655#### funimation
1656* `language`: Languages to extract. Eg: `funimation:language=english,japanese`
1657* `version`: The video version to extract - `uncut` or `simulcast`
1658
a9d4da60 1659#### crunchyroll
1660* `language`: Languages to extract. Eg: `crunchyroll:language=jaJp`
1661* `hardsub`: Which hard-sub versions to extract. Eg: `crunchyroll:hardsub=None,enUS`
1662
96565c7e 1663#### vikichannel
1664* `video_types`: Types of videos to download - one or more of `episodes`, `movies`, `clips`, `trailers`
73d829c1 1665
aa4b0545 1666#### youtubewebarchive
1667* `check_all`: Try to check more at the cost of more requests. One or more of `thumbnails`, `captures`
1668
d43de682
M		 1669#### gamejolt
1670* `comment_sort`: `hot` (default), `you` (cookies needed), `top`, `new` - choose comment sorting mode (on GameJolt's side)
1671
26f2aa3d
AG		 1672#### hotstar
1673* `res`: resolution to ignore - one or more of `sd`, `hd`, `fhd`
1674* `vcodec`: vcodec to ignore - one or more of `h264`, `h265`, `dvh265`
1675* `dr`: dynamic range to ignore - one or more of `sdr`, `hdr10`, `dv`
1676
bc97cdae 1677NOTE: These options may be changed/removed in the future without concern for backward compatibility
5d3a0e79 1678
ec2e44fc 1679<!-- MANPAGE: MOVE "INSTALLATION" SECTION HERE -->
1680
3acf6d38 1681
f74980cb 1682# PLUGINS
b7770046 1683
3ae5e797 1684Plugins are loaded from `<root-dir>/ytdlp_plugins/<type>/__init__.py`; where `<root-dir>` is the directory of the binary (`<root-dir>/yt-dlp`), or the root directory of the module if you are running directly from source-code (`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py`). Plugins are currently not supported for the `pip` version
1685
1686Plugins can be of `<type>`s `extractor` or `postprocessor`. Extractor plugins do not need to be enabled from the CLI and are automatically invoked when the input URL is suitable for it. Postprocessor plugins can be invoked using `--use-postprocessor NAME`.
1687
1688See [ytdlp_plugins](ytdlp_plugins) for example plugins.
1689
1690Note that **all** plugins are imported even if not invoked, and that **there are no checks** performed on plugin code. Use plugins at your own risk and only if you trust the code
1691
1692If you are a plugin author, add [ytdlp-plugins](https://github.com/topics/ytdlp-plugins) as a topic to your repository for discoverability
b7770046 1693
b7770046 1694
8c6f4daa 1695
1696# EMBEDDING YT-DLP
1697
1698yt-dlp makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language.
1699
1700Your program should avoid parsing the normal stdout since they may change in future versions. Instead they should use options such as `-J`, `--print`, `--progress-template`, `--exec` etc to create console output that you can reliably reproduce and parse.
1701
1702From a Python program, you can embed yt-dlp in a more powerful fashion, like this:
1703
1704```python
59a7a13e 1705from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
8c6f4daa 1706
093a1710 1707ydl_opts = {'format': 'bestaudio'}
59a7a13e 1708with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
8c6f4daa 1709 ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
1710```
1711
ed8d87f9 1712Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py`](yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py#L191).
8c6f4daa 1713
093a1710 1714Here's a more complete example demonstrating various functionality:
8c6f4daa 1715
1716```python
1717import json
8c6f4daa 1718import yt_dlp
8c6f4daa 1719
1720
1721class MyLogger:
1722 def debug(self, msg):
e75bb0d6 1723 # For compatibility with youtube-dl, both debug and info are passed into debug
8c6f4daa 1724 # You can distinguish them by the prefix '[debug] '
1725 if msg.startswith('[debug] '):
1726 pass
1727 else:
1728 self.info(msg)
1729
1730 def info(self, msg):
1731 pass
1732
1733 def warning(self, msg):
1734 pass
1735
1736 def error(self, msg):
1737 print(msg)
1738
1739
093a1710 1740# ℹ️ See the docstring of yt_dlp.postprocessor.common.PostProcessor
59a7a13e 1741class MyCustomPP(yt_dlp.postprocessor.PostProcessor):
093a1710 1742 # ℹ️ See docstring of yt_dlp.postprocessor.common.PostProcessor.run
8c6f4daa 1743 def run(self, info):
1744 self.to_screen('Doing stuff')
1745 return [], info
1746
1747
093a1710 1748# ℹ️ See "progress_hooks" in the docstring of yt_dlp.YoutubeDL
8c6f4daa 1749def my_hook(d):
1750 if d['status'] == 'finished':
1751 print('Done downloading, now converting ...')
1752
1753
093a1710 1754def format_selector(ctx):
1755 """ Select the best video and the best audio that won't result in an mkv.
1756 This is just an example and does not handle all cases """
1757
1758 # formats are already sorted worst to best
1759 formats = ctx.get('formats')[::-1]
1760
1761 # acodec='none' means there is no audio
1762 best_video = next(f for f in formats
1763 if f['vcodec'] != 'none' and f['acodec'] == 'none')
1764
1765 # find compatible audio extension
1766 audio_ext = {'mp4': 'm4a', 'webm': 'webm'}[best_video['ext']]
1767 # vcodec='none' means there is no video
1768 best_audio = next(f for f in formats if (
1769 f['acodec'] != 'none' and f['vcodec'] == 'none' and f['ext'] == audio_ext))
1770
1771 yield {
1772 # These are the minimum required fields for a merged format
1773 'format_id': f'{best_video["format_id"]}+{best_audio["format_id"]}',
1774 'ext': best_video['ext'],
1775 'requested_formats': [best_video, best_audio],
e75bb0d6 1776 # Must be + separated list of protocols
093a1710 1777 'protocol': f'{best_video["protocol"]}+{best_audio["protocol"]}'
1778 }
1779
1780
1781# ℹ️ See docstring of yt_dlp.YoutubeDL for a description of the options
8c6f4daa 1782ydl_opts = {
093a1710 1783 'format': format_selector,
8c6f4daa 1784 'postprocessors': [{
093a1710 1785 # Embed metadata in video using ffmpeg.
1786 # ℹ️ See yt_dlp.postprocessor.FFmpegMetadataPP for the arguments it accepts
1787 'key': 'FFmpegMetadata',
1788 'add_chapters': True,
1789 'add_metadata': True,
8c6f4daa 1790 }],
1791 'logger': MyLogger(),
1792 'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
1793}
1794
59a7a13e 1795
1796# Add custom headers
1797yt_dlp.utils.std_headers.update({'Referer': 'https://www.google.com'})
1798
093a1710 1799# ℹ️ See the public functions in yt_dlp.YoutubeDL for for other available functions.
1800# Eg: "ydl.download", "ydl.download_with_info_file"
8c6f4daa 1801with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1802 ydl.add_post_processor(MyCustomPP())
1803 info = ydl.extract_info('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc')
093a1710 1804
1805 # ℹ️ ydl.sanitize_info makes the info json-serializable
8c6f4daa 1806 print(json.dumps(ydl.sanitize_info(info)))
1807```
1808
49a57e70 1809**Tip**: If you are porting your code from youtube-dl to yt-dlp, one important point to look out for is that we do not guarantee the return value of `YoutubeDL.extract_info` to be json serializable, or even be a dictionary. It will be dictionary-like, but if you want to ensure it is a serializable dictionary, pass it through `YoutubeDL.sanitize_info` as shown in the example above
1810
8c6f4daa 1811
ec2e44fc 1812<!-- MANPAGE: MOVE "NEW FEATURES" SECTION HERE -->
1813
e167860c 1814# DEPRECATED OPTIONS
1815
1816These are all the deprecated options and the current alternative to achieve the same effect
1817
8130779d 1818#### Almost redundant options
1819While these options are almost the same as their new counterparts, there are some differences that prevents them being redundant
1820
1821 -j, --dump-json --print "%()j"
1822 -F, --list-formats --print formats_table
0bfc53d0 1823 --list-thumbnails --print thumbnails_table --print playlist:thumbnails_table
8130779d 1824 --list-subs --print automatic_captions_table --print subtitles_table
1825
6ccf351a 1826#### Redundant options
1827While these options are redundant, they are still expected to be used due to their ease of use
f4536226 1828
53c18592 1829 --get-description --print description
1830 --get-duration --print duration_string
1831 --get-filename --print filename
1832 --get-format --print format
1833 --get-id --print id
1834 --get-thumbnail --print thumbnail
1835 -e, --get-title --print title
1836 -g, --get-url --print urls
8f18aca8 1837 --match-title REGEX --match-filter "title ~= (?i)REGEX"
1838 --reject-title REGEX --match-filter "title !~= (?i)REGEX"
1839 --min-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count >=? COUNT"
1840 --max-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count <=? COUNT"
6ccf351a 1841
1842
1843#### Not recommended
1844While these options still work, their use is not recommended since there are other alternatives to achieve the same
1845
1e43a6f7 1846 --exec-before-download CMD --exec "before_dl:CMD"
1847 --no-exec-before-download --no-exec
d9aa2332 1848 --all-formats -f all
c32b0aab 1849 --all-subs --sub-langs all --write-subs
b7b04c78 1850 --print-json -j --no-simulate
e167860c 1851 --autonumber-size NUMBER Use string formatting. Eg: %(autonumber)03d
a439a3a4 1852 --autonumber-start NUMBER Use internal field formatting like %(autonumber+NUMBER)s
19b824f6 1853 --id -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s"
73cd218f 1854 --metadata-from-title FORMAT --parse-metadata "%(title)s:FORMAT"
52a8a1e1 1855 --hls-prefer-native --downloader "m3u8:native"
1856 --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --downloader "m3u8:ffmpeg"
53ed7066 1857 --list-formats-old --compat-options list-formats (Alias: --no-list-formats-as-table)
1858 --list-formats-as-table --compat-options -list-formats [Default] (Alias: --no-list-formats-old)
5d3a0e79 1859 --youtube-skip-dash-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=dash" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-dash-manifest)
1860 --youtube-skip-hls-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=hls" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest)
1861 --youtube-include-dash-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest)
1862 --youtube-include-hls-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest)
6ccf351a 1863
1864
1865#### Developer options
1866These options are not intended to be used by the end-user
1867
34488702 1868 --test Download only part of video for testing extractors
6ccf351a 1869 --youtube-print-sig-code For testing youtube signatures
88acdbc2 1870 --allow-unplayable-formats List unplayable formats also
1871 --no-allow-unplayable-formats Default
f4536226 1872
1873
1874#### Old aliases
1875These are aliases that are no longer documented for various reasons
1876
1877 --avconv-location --ffmpeg-location
1878 --cn-verification-proxy URL --geo-verification-proxy URL
1879 --dump-headers --print-traffic
1880 --dump-intermediate-pages --dump-pages
1881 --force-write-download-archive --force-write-archive
1882 --load-info --load-info-json
1883 --no-split-tracks --no-split-chapters
e167860c 1884 --no-write-srt --no-write-subs
e167860c 1885 --prefer-unsecure --prefer-insecure
1886 --rate-limit RATE --limit-rate RATE
f4536226 1887 --split-tracks --split-chapters
1888 --srt-lang LANGS --sub-langs LANGS
e167860c 1889 --trim-file-names LENGTH --trim-filenames LENGTH
f4536226 1890 --write-srt --write-subs
e167860c 1891 --yes-overwrites --force-overwrites
f4536226 1892
7a340e0d 1893#### Sponskrub Options
f304da8a 1894Support for [SponSkrub](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) has been deprecated in favor of the `--sponsorblock` options
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NA		 1895
1896 --sponskrub --sponsorblock-mark all
1897 --no-sponskrub --no-sponsorblock
1898 --sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove all
1899 --no-sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove -all
1900 --sponskrub-force Not applicable
1901 --no-sponskrub-force Not applicable
1902 --sponskrub-location Not applicable
1903 --sponskrub-args Not applicable
1904
f4536226 1905#### No longer supported
1906These options may no longer work as intended
1907
1908 --prefer-avconv avconv is not officially supported by yt-dlp (Alias: --no-prefer-ffmpeg)
1909 --prefer-ffmpeg Default (Alias: --no-prefer-avconv)
1910 -C, --call-home Not implemented
1911 --no-call-home Default
1912 --include-ads No longer supported
1913 --no-include-ads Default
0bb1bc1b 1914 --write-annotations No supported site has annotations now
1915 --no-write-annotations Default
486fb179 1916
1917#### Removed
1918These options were deprecated since 2014 and have now been entirely removed
1919
f4536226 1920 -A, --auto-number -o "%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1921 -t, --title -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1922 -l, --literal -o accepts literal names
1923
8c6f4daa 1924# CONTRIBUTING
1925See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp) for instructions on [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue) and [Contributing code to the project](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
e167860c 1926
c2b5f311 1927# MORE
8c6f4daa 1928For FAQ see the [youtube-dl README](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#faq)
fork of https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/