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9e491463 1import collections
2import contextlib
34a741a8 3import optparse
f8271158 4import os.path
3aa9a735 5import re
f9934b96 6import shlex
ac668111 7import shutil
9e491463 8import string
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9import sys
10
ac668111 11from .compat import compat_expanduser
f59f5ef8 12from .cookies import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS, SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS
81a23040 13from .downloader.external import list_external_downloaders
ad3dc496 14from .postprocessor import (
81a23040 15 FFmpegExtractAudioPP,
4f04be6a 16 FFmpegMergerPP,
81a23040 17 FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP,
18 FFmpegThumbnailsConvertorPP,
19 FFmpegVideoRemuxerPP,
7a340e0d 20 SponsorBlockPP,
81a23040 21)
7a340e0d 22from .postprocessor.modify_chapters import DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE
9e491463 23from .update import detect_variant
f8271158 24from .utils import (
25 OUTTMPL_TYPES,
26 POSTPROCESS_WHEN,
27 Config,
28 expand_path,
29 get_executable_path,
19a03940 30 join_nonempty,
f8271158 31 remove_end,
32 write_string,
33)
34from .version import __version__
81a23040 35
34a741a8 36
06e57990 37def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None, ignore_config_files='if_override'):
9e491463 38 root = Config(create_parser())
06e57990 39 if ignore_config_files == 'if_override':
40 ignore_config_files = overrideArguments is not None
34a741a8 41
e2e43aea 42 def _readUserConf(package_name, default=[]):
43 # .config
ac668111 44 xdg_config_home = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME') or compat_expanduser('~/.config')
e2e43aea 45 userConfFile = os.path.join(xdg_config_home, package_name, 'config')
46 if not os.path.isfile(userConfFile):
47 userConfFile = os.path.join(xdg_config_home, '%s.conf' % package_name)
06e57990 48 userConf = Config.read_file(userConfFile, default=None)
e2e43aea 49 if userConf is not None:
0202b52a 50 return userConf, userConfFile
34a741a8 51
e2e43aea 52 # appdata
ac668111 53 appdata_dir = os.getenv('appdata')
e2e43aea 54 if appdata_dir:
55 userConfFile = os.path.join(appdata_dir, package_name, 'config')
06e57990 56 userConf = Config.read_file(userConfFile, default=None)
e2e43aea 57 if userConf is None:
0202b52a 58 userConfFile += '.txt'
06e57990 59 userConf = Config.read_file(userConfFile, default=None)
e2e43aea 60 if userConf is not None:
0202b52a 61 return userConf, userConfFile
34a741a8 62
e2e43aea 63 # home
64 userConfFile = os.path.join(compat_expanduser('~'), '%s.conf' % package_name)
06e57990 65 userConf = Config.read_file(userConfFile, default=None)
34a741a8 66 if userConf is None:
0202b52a 67 userConfFile += '.txt'
06e57990 68 userConf = Config.read_file(userConfFile, default=None)
e2e43aea 69 if userConf is not None:
0202b52a 70 return userConf, userConfFile
34a741a8 71
0202b52a 72 return default, None
34a741a8 73
06e57990 74 def add_config(label, path, user=False):
75 """ Adds config and returns whether to continue """
9e491463 76 if root.parse_known_args()[0].ignoreconfig:
06e57990 77 return False
78 # Multiple package names can be given here
79 # Eg: ('yt-dlp', 'youtube-dlc', 'youtube-dl') will look for
80 # the configuration file of any of these three packages
81 for package in ('yt-dlp',):
82 if user:
83 args, current_path = _readUserConf(package, default=None)
84 else:
85 current_path = os.path.join(path, '%s.conf' % package)
86 args = Config.read_file(current_path, default=None)
87 if args is not None:
88 root.append_config(args, current_path, label=label)
89 return True
90 return True
91
92 def load_configs():
93 yield not ignore_config_files
94 yield add_config('Portable', get_executable_path())
9e491463 95 yield add_config('Home', expand_path(root.parse_known_args()[0].paths.get('home', '')).strip())
06e57990 96 yield add_config('User', None, user=True)
97 yield add_config('System', '/etc')
98
9e491463 99 opts = optparse.Values({'verbose': True, 'print_help': False})
100 try:
44a6fcff 101 try:
102 if overrideArguments:
103 root.append_config(overrideArguments, label='Override')
104 else:
105 root.append_config(sys.argv[1:], label='Command-line')
106 loaded_all_configs = all(load_configs())
107 except ValueError as err:
108 raise root.parser.error(err)
9e491463 109
44a6fcff 110 if loaded_all_configs:
9e491463 111 # If ignoreconfig is found inside the system configuration file,
112 # the user configuration is removed
113 if root.parse_known_args()[0].ignoreconfig:
114 user_conf = next((i for i, conf in enumerate(root.configs) if conf.label == 'User'), None)
115 if user_conf is not None:
116 root.configs.pop(user_conf)
06e57990 117
284a60c5 118 try:
119 root.configs[0].load_configs() # Resolve any aliases using --config-location
120 except ValueError as err:
121 raise root.parser.error(err)
122
9e491463 123 opts, args = root.parse_args()
124 except optparse.OptParseError:
125 with contextlib.suppress(optparse.OptParseError):
126 opts, _ = root.parse_known_args(strict=False)
127 raise
128 except (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt):
129 opts.verbose = False
130 raise
131 finally:
132 verbose = opts.verbose and f'\n{root}'.replace('\n| ', '\n[debug] ')[1:]
133 if verbose:
134 write_string(f'{verbose}\n')
135 if opts.print_help:
136 if verbose:
137 write_string('\n')
138 root.parser.print_help()
139 if opts.print_help:
140 sys.exit()
141 return root.parser, opts, args
06e57990 142
143
19a03940 144class _YoutubeDLHelpFormatter(optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter):
145 def __init__(self):
146 # No need to wrap help messages if we're on a wide console
ac668111 147 max_width = shutil.get_terminal_size().columns or 80
2dd5a2e3 148 # The % is chosen to get a pretty output in README.md
149 super().__init__(width=max_width, max_help_position=int(0.45 * max_width))
19a03940 150
151 @staticmethod
152 def format_option_strings(option):
153 """ ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR """
154 opts = join_nonempty(
155 option._short_opts and option._short_opts[0],
156 option._long_opts and option._long_opts[0],
157 delim=', ')
158 if option.takes_value():
159 opts += f' {option.metavar}'
160 return opts
161
162
db2e129c 163class _YoutubeDLOptionParser(optparse.OptionParser):
164 # optparse is deprecated since python 3.2. So assume a stable interface even for private methods
9e491463 165 ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT = 100
db2e129c 166
19a03940 167 def __init__(self):
168 super().__init__(
9e491463 169 prog='yt-dlp' if detect_variant() == 'source' else None,
19a03940 170 version=__version__,
171 usage='%prog [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]',
172 epilog='See full documentation at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme',
173 formatter=_YoutubeDLHelpFormatter(),
174 conflict_handler='resolve',
175 )
176
9e491463 177 _UNKNOWN_OPTION = (optparse.BadOptionError, optparse.AmbiguousOptionError)
178 _BAD_OPTION = optparse.OptionValueError
179
180 def parse_known_args(self, args=None, values=None, strict=True):
181 """Same as parse_args, but ignore unknown switches. Similar to argparse.parse_known_args"""
182 self.rargs, self.largs = self._get_args(args), []
183 self.values = values or self.get_default_values()
184 while self.rargs:
c800598c 185 arg = self.rargs[0]
9e491463 186 try:
c800598c 187 if arg == '--':
188 del self.rargs[0]
189 break
190 elif arg.startswith('--'):
191 self._process_long_opt(self.rargs, self.values)
192 elif arg.startswith('-') and arg != '-':
193 self._process_short_opts(self.rargs, self.values)
194 elif self.allow_interspersed_args:
195 self.largs.append(self.rargs.pop(0))
196 else:
197 break
9e491463 198 except optparse.OptParseError as err:
199 if isinstance(err, self._UNKNOWN_OPTION):
200 self.largs.append(err.opt_str)
201 elif strict:
202 if isinstance(err, self._BAD_OPTION):
203 self.error(str(err))
204 raise
205 return self.check_values(self.values, self.largs)
206
207 def error(self, msg):
44a6fcff 208 msg = f'{self.get_prog_name()}: error: {str(msg).strip()}\n'
9e491463 209 raise optparse.OptParseError(f'{self.get_usage()}\n{msg}' if self.usage else msg)
210
19a03940 211 def _get_args(self, args):
212 return sys.argv[1:] if args is None else list(args)
213
db2e129c 214 def _match_long_opt(self, opt):
962ffcf8 215 """Improve ambiguous argument resolution by comparing option objects instead of argument strings"""
db2e129c 216 try:
217 return super()._match_long_opt(opt)
218 except optparse.AmbiguousOptionError as e:
86e5f3ed 219 if len({self._long_opt[p] for p in e.possibilities}) == 1:
db2e129c 220 return e.possibilities[0]
221 raise
222
223
06e57990 224def create_parser():
d21bba78 225 def _list_from_options_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser, append=True, delim=',', process=str.strip):
e632bce2 226 # append can be True, False or -1 (prepend)
9e907ebd 227 current = list(getattr(parser.values, option.dest)) if append else []
1f8471e2 228 value = list(filter(None, [process(value)] if delim is None else map(process, value.split(delim))))
d818eb74 229 setattr(
230 parser.values, option.dest,
e632bce2 231 current + value if append is True else value + current)
34a741a8 232
31654882 233 def _set_from_options_callback(
d21bba78 234 option, opt_str, value, parser, delim=',', allowed_values=None, aliases={},
235 process=lambda x: x.lower().strip()):
9e907ebd 236 current = set(getattr(parser.values, option.dest))
d21bba78 237 values = [process(value)] if delim is None else list(map(process, value.split(delim)[::-1]))
31654882 238 while values:
239 actual_val = val = values.pop()
a44ca5a4 240 if not val:
241 raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'Invalid {option.metavar} for {opt_str}: {value}')
31654882 242 if val == 'all':
243 current.update(allowed_values)
244 elif val == '-all':
245 current = set()
246 elif val in aliases:
247 values.extend(aliases[val])
248 else:
249 if val[0] == '-':
250 val = val[1:]
251 current.discard(val)
252 else:
253 current.update([val])
254 if allowed_values is not None and val not in allowed_values:
255 raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {option.metavar} for {opt_str}: {actual_val}')
256
257 setattr(parser.values, option.dest, current)
258
e632bce2 259 def _dict_from_options_callback(
d818eb74 260 option, opt_str, value, parser,
44bcb8d1 261 allowed_keys=r'[\w-]+', delimiter=':', default_key=None, process=None, multiple_keys=True,
ca30f449 262 process_key=str.lower, append=False):
45016689 263
ca30f449 264 out_dict = dict(getattr(parser.values, option.dest))
bb66c247 265 multiple_args = not isinstance(value, str)
d818eb74 266 if multiple_keys:
86e5f3ed 267 allowed_keys = fr'({allowed_keys})(,({allowed_keys}))*'
bb66c247 268 mobj = re.match(
86e5f3ed 269 fr'(?i)(?P<keys>{allowed_keys}){delimiter}(?P<val>.*)$',
bb66c247 270 value[0] if multiple_args else value)
45016689 271 if mobj is not None:
44bcb8d1 272 keys, val = mobj.group('keys').split(','), mobj.group('val')
bb66c247 273 if multiple_args:
274 val = [val, *value[1:]]
45016689 275 elif default_key is not None:
d818eb74 276 keys, val = [default_key], value
45016689 277 else:
278 raise optparse.OptionValueError(
86e5f3ed 279 f'wrong {opt_str} formatting; it should be {option.metavar}, not "{value}"')
4bb6b02f 280 try:
44bcb8d1 281 keys = map(process_key, keys) if process_key else keys
4bb6b02f 282 val = process(val) if process else val
283 except Exception as err:
44bcb8d1 284 raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {opt_str} formatting; {err}')
d818eb74 285 for key in keys:
ca30f449 286 out_dict[key] = out_dict.get(key, []) + [val] if append else val
287 setattr(parser.values, option.dest, out_dict)
45016689 288
19a03940 289 parser = _YoutubeDLOptionParser()
9e491463 290 alias_group = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Aliases')
291 Formatter = string.Formatter()
292
293 def _create_alias(option, opt_str, value, parser):
294 aliases, opts = value
295 try:
296 nargs = len({i if f == '' else f
297 for i, (_, f, _, _) in enumerate(Formatter.parse(opts)) if f is not None})
298 opts.format(*map(str, range(nargs))) # validate
299 except Exception as err:
300 raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {opt_str} OPTIONS formatting; {err}')
301 if alias_group not in parser.option_groups:
302 parser.add_option_group(alias_group)
303
304 aliases = (x if x.startswith('-') else f'--{x}' for x in map(str.strip, aliases.split(',')))
305 try:
306 alias_group.add_option(
307 *aliases, help=opts, nargs=nargs, type='str' if nargs else None,
308 dest='_triggered_aliases', default=collections.defaultdict(int),
309 metavar=' '.join(f'ARG{i}' for i in range(nargs)), action='callback',
310 callback=_alias_callback, callback_kwargs={'opts': opts, 'nargs': nargs})
311 except Exception as err:
312 raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {opt_str} formatting; {err}')
313
314 def _alias_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser, opts, nargs):
315 counter = getattr(parser.values, option.dest)
316 counter[opt_str] += 1
317 if counter[opt_str] > parser.ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT:
318 raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'Alias {opt_str} exceeded invocation limit')
319 if nargs == 1:
320 value = [value]
321 assert (nargs == 0 and value is None) or len(value) == nargs
322 parser.rargs[:0] = shlex.split(
323 opts if value is None else opts.format(*map(shlex.quote, value)))
34a741a8 324
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325 general = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'General Options')
326 general.add_option(
9e491463 327 '-h', '--help', dest='print_help', action='store_true',
17941321 328 help='Print this help text and exit')
8450c15c 329 general.add_option(
b76f0e58 330 '--version',
8450c15c 331 action='version',
17941321 332 help='Print program version and exit')
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333 general.add_option(
334 '-U', '--update',
335 action='store_true', dest='update_self',
3fe75fdc 336 help='Update this program to latest version')
d32f30ac 337 general.add_option(
338 '--no-update',
339 action='store_false', dest='update_self',
340 help='Do not update (default)')
8450c15c 341 general.add_option(
b1940459 342 '-i', '--ignore-errors',
343 action='store_true', dest='ignoreerrors',
0930b11f 344 help='Ignore download and postprocessing errors. The download will be considered successful even if the postprocessing fails')
b1940459 345 general.add_option(
346 '--no-abort-on-error',
347 action='store_const', dest='ignoreerrors', const='only_download',
348 help='Continue with next video on download errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in a playlist (default)')
8450c15c 349 general.add_option(
6623ac34 350 '--abort-on-error', '--no-ignore-errors',
8450c15c 351 action='store_false', dest='ignoreerrors',
8a51f564 352 help='Abort downloading of further videos if an error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)')
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353 general.add_option(
354 '--dump-user-agent',
355 action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent', default=False,
34488702 356 help='Display the current user-agent and exit')
34a741a8 357 general.add_option(
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358 '--list-extractors',
359 action='store_true', dest='list_extractors', default=False,
b7b04c78 360 help='List all supported extractors and exit')
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361 general.add_option(
362 '--extractor-descriptions',
363 action='store_true', dest='list_extractor_descriptions', default=False,
b7b04c78 364 help='Output descriptions of all supported extractors and exit')
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365 general.add_option(
366 '--force-generic-extractor',
367 action='store_true', dest='force_generic_extractor', default=False,
368 help='Force extraction to use the generic extractor')
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369 general.add_option(
370 '--default-search',
371 dest='default_search', metavar='PREFIX',
2dd5a2e3 372 help=(
373 'Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. '
374 'Eg: "gvsearch2:python" downloads two videos from google videos for the search term "python". '
375 'Use the value "auto" to let yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). '
376 '"error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, '
377 'but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching'))
34a741a8 378 general.add_option(
6623ac34 379 '--ignore-config', '--no-config',
7303f84a 380 action='store_true', dest='ignoreconfig',
6623ac34 381 help=(
9e907ebd 382 'Don\'t load any more configuration files except those given by --config-locations. '
ed8d87f9 383 'For backward compatibility, if this option is found inside the system configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded. '
fc5fa964 384 '(Alias: --no-config)'))
e66dca5e 385 general.add_option(
06e57990 386 '--no-config-locations',
387 action='store_const', dest='config_locations', const=[],
388 help=(
389 'Do not load any custom configuration files (default). When given inside a '
390 'configuration file, ignore all previous --config-locations defined in the current file'))
391 general.add_option(
392 '--config-locations',
393 dest='config_locations', metavar='PATH', action='append',
394 help=(
6b9e832d 395 'Location of the main configuration file; either the path to the config or its containing directory '
396 '("-" for stdin). Can be used multiple times and inside other configuration files'))
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397 general.add_option(
398 '--flat-playlist',
6623ac34 399 action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist', default=False,
8a51f564 400 help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them')
6623ac34 401 general.add_option(
402 '--no-flat-playlist',
403 action='store_false', dest='extract_flat',
404 help='Extract the videos of a playlist')
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405 general.add_option(
406 '--live-from-start',
407 action='store_true', dest='live_from_start',
9e907ebd 408 help='Download livestreams from the start. Currently only supported for YouTube (Experimental)')
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409 general.add_option(
410 '--no-live-from-start',
411 action='store_false', dest='live_from_start',
412 help='Download livestreams from the current time (default)')
f2ebc5c7 413 general.add_option(
414 '--wait-for-video',
415 dest='wait_for_video', metavar='MIN[-MAX]', default=None,
416 help=(
417 'Wait for scheduled streams to become available. '
418 'Pass the minimum number of seconds (or range) to wait between retries'))
419 general.add_option(
420 '--no-wait-for-video',
421 dest='wait_for_video', action='store_const', const=None,
422 help='Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)')
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423 general.add_option(
424 '--mark-watched',
425 action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
e248be33 426 help='Mark videos watched (even with --simulate)')
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427 general.add_option(
428 '--no-mark-watched',
597c1866 429 action='store_false', dest='mark_watched',
430 help='Do not mark videos watched (default)')
7e5db8c9 431 general.add_option(
f2df4071 432 '--no-colors', '--no-colours',
597c1866 433 action='store_true', dest='no_color', default=False,
f2df4071 434 help='Do not emit color codes in output (Alias: --no-colours)')
53ed7066 435 general.add_option(
436 '--compat-options',
31654882 437 metavar='OPTS', dest='compat_opts', default=set(), type='str',
438 action='callback', callback=_set_from_options_callback,
439 callback_kwargs={
440 'allowed_values': {
5c3895ff 441 'filename', 'filename-sanitization', 'format-sort', 'abort-on-error', 'format-spec', 'no-playlist-metafiles',
31654882 442 'multistreams', 'no-live-chat', 'playlist-index', 'list-formats', 'no-direct-merge',
f279aaee 443 'no-youtube-channel-redirect', 'no-youtube-unavailable-videos', 'no-attach-info-json', 'embed-metadata',
d5820461 444 'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs', 'no-certifi',
d21bba78 445 }, 'aliases': {
31654882 446 'youtube-dl': ['-multistreams', 'all'],
447 'youtube-dlc': ['-no-youtube-channel-redirect', '-no-live-chat', 'all'],
448 }
449 }, help=(
450 'Options that can help keep compatibility with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc '
53ed7066 451 'configurations by reverting some of the changes made in yt-dlp. '
452 'See "Differences in default behavior" for details'))
9e491463 453 general.add_option(
454 '--alias', metavar='ALIASES OPTIONS', dest='_', type='str', nargs=2,
455 action='callback', callback=_create_alias,
456 help=(
457 'Create aliases for an option string. Unless an alias starts with a dash "-", it is prefixed with "--". '
458 'Arguments are parsed according to the Python string formatting mini-language. '
459 'Eg: --alias get-audio,-X "-S=aext:{0},abr -x --audio-format {0}" creates options '
460 '"--get-audio" and "-X" that takes an argument (ARG0) and expands to '
461 '"-S=aext:ARG0,abr -x --audio-format ARG0". All defined aliases are listed in the --help output. '
962ffcf8 462 'Alias options can trigger more aliases; so be careful to avoid defining recursive options. '
9e491463 463 f'As a safety measure, each alias may be triggered a maximum of {_YoutubeDLOptionParser.ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT} times. '
464 'This option can be used multiple times'))
34a741a8 465
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466 network = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Network Options')
467 network.add_option(
468 '--proxy', dest='proxy',
469 default=None, metavar='URL',
6623ac34 470 help=(
2dd5a2e3 471 'Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. '
472 'Eg: socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection'))
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473 network.add_option(
474 '--socket-timeout',
475 dest='socket_timeout', type=float, default=None, metavar='SECONDS',
476 help='Time to wait before giving up, in seconds')
477 network.add_option(
478 '--source-address',
479 metavar='IP', dest='source_address', default=None,
24ee6b97 480 help='Client-side IP address to bind to',
be4a824d 481 )
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482 network.add_option(
483 '-4', '--force-ipv4',
484 action='store_const', const='0.0.0.0', dest='source_address',
24ee6b97 485 help='Make all connections via IPv4',
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486 )
487 network.add_option(
488 '-6', '--force-ipv6',
489 action='store_const', const='::', dest='source_address',
24ee6b97 490 help='Make all connections via IPv6',
500b8b41 491 )
0aa10994 492
b31fdeed 493 geo = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Geo-restriction')
0aa10994 494 geo.add_option(
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495 '--geo-verification-proxy',
496 dest='geo_verification_proxy', default=None, metavar='URL',
6623ac34 497 help=(
498 'Use this proxy to verify the IP address for some geo-restricted sites. '
8a51f564 499 'The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the option is not present) is used for the actual downloading'))
0aa10994 500 geo.add_option(
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501 '--cn-verification-proxy',
502 dest='cn_verification_proxy', default=None, metavar='URL',
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503 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
504 geo.add_option(
505 '--geo-bypass',
506 action='store_true', dest='geo_bypass', default=True,
455a15e2 507 help='Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (default)')
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509 '--no-geo-bypass',
455a15e2 510 action='store_false', dest='geo_bypass',
504f20dd 511 help='Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header')
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513 '--geo-bypass-country', metavar='CODE',
514 dest='geo_bypass_country', default=None,
504f20dd 515 help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code')
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517 '--geo-bypass-ip-block', metavar='IP_BLOCK',
518 dest='geo_bypass_ip_block', default=None,
504f20dd 519 help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation')
be4a824d 520
8450c15c 521 selection = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Selection')
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523 '--playlist-start',
524 dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', default=1, type=int,
7e88d7d7 525 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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527 '--playlist-end',
528 dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', default=None, type=int,
7e88d7d7 529 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
c14e88f0 530 selection.add_option(
7e88d7d7 531 '-I', '--playlist-items',
c14e88f0 532 dest='playlist_items', metavar='ITEM_SPEC', default=None,
7e88d7d7 533 help=(
962ffcf8 534 'Comma separated playlist_index of the videos to download. '
7e88d7d7 535 'You can specify a range using "[START]:[STOP][:STEP]". For backward compatibility, START-STOP is also supported. '
536 'Use negative indices to count from the right and negative STEP to download in reverse order. '
537 'Eg: "-I 1:3,7,-5::2" used on a playlist of size 15 will download the videos at index 1,2,3,7,11,13,15'))
34a741a8 538 selection.add_option(
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540 dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',
8f18aca8 541 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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542 selection.add_option(
543 '--reject-title',
544 dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',
8f18aca8 545 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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546 selection.add_option(
547 '--min-filesize',
548 metavar='SIZE', dest='min_filesize', default=None,
549 help='Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
550 selection.add_option(
551 '--max-filesize',
552 metavar='SIZE', dest='max_filesize', default=None,
553 help='Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
554 selection.add_option(
555 '--date',
556 metavar='DATE', dest='date', default=None,
c76eb41b 557 help=(
3d38b2d6 558 'Download only videos uploaded on this date. The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format '
559 '[now|today|yesterday][-N[day|week|month|year]]. Eg: --date today-2weeks'))
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561 '--datebefore',
562 metavar='DATE', dest='datebefore', default=None,
c76eb41b 563 help=(
564 'Download only videos uploaded on or before this date. '
565 'The date formats accepted is the same as --date'))
34a741a8 566 selection.add_option(
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568 metavar='DATE', dest='dateafter', default=None,
c76eb41b 569 help=(
570 'Download only videos uploaded on or after this date. '
571 'The date formats accepted is the same as --date'))
34a741a8 572 selection.add_option(
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574 metavar='COUNT', dest='min_views', default=None, type=int,
8f18aca8 575 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
34a741a8 576 selection.add_option(
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578 metavar='COUNT', dest='max_views', default=None, type=int,
8f18aca8 579 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
347de493 580 selection.add_option(
b1a7cd05 581 '--match-filters',
582 metavar='FILTER', dest='match_filter', action='append',
347de493 583 help=(
2dd5a2e3 584 'Generic video filter. Any "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" field can be compared with a '
d4ada357 585 'number or a string using the operators defined in "Filtering Formats". '
b1a7cd05 586 'You can also simply specify a field to match if the field is present, '
587 'use "!field" to check if the field is not present, and "&" to check multiple conditions. '
588 'Use a "\\" to escape "&" or quotes if needed. If used multiple times, '
589 'the filter matches if atleast one of the conditions are met. Eg: --match-filter '
590 '!is_live --match-filter "like_count>?100 & description~=\'(?i)\\bcats \\& dogs\\b\'" '
591 'matches only videos that are not live OR those that have a like count more than 100 '
592 '(or the like field is not available) and also has a description '
2dd5a2e3 593 'that contains the phrase "cats & dogs" (caseless). '
492272fe 594 'Use "--match-filter -" to interactively ask whether to download each video'))
6623ac34 595 selection.add_option(
596 '--no-match-filter',
597 metavar='FILTER', dest='match_filter', action='store_const', const=None,
598 help='Do not use generic video filter (default)')
34a741a8 599 selection.add_option(
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601 action='store_true', dest='noplaylist', default=False,
8a51f564 602 help='Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist')
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604 '--yes-playlist',
f0884c8b 605 action='store_false', dest='noplaylist',
8a51f564 606 help='Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist')
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607 selection.add_option(
608 '--age-limit',
609 metavar='YEARS', dest='age_limit', default=None, type=int,
17941321 610 help='Download only videos suitable for the given age')
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611 selection.add_option(
612 '--download-archive', metavar='FILE',
613 dest='download_archive',
8a51f564 614 help='Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it')
f304da8a 615 selection.add_option(
616 '--no-download-archive',
617 dest='download_archive', action="store_const", const=None,
618 help='Do not use archive file (default)')
619 selection.add_option(
620 '--max-downloads',
621 dest='max_downloads', metavar='NUMBER', type=int, default=None,
622 help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files')
ea6e0c2b 623 selection.add_option(
624 '--break-on-existing',
625 action='store_true', dest='break_on_existing', default=False,
8a51f564 626 help='Stop the download process when encountering a file that is in the archive')
8b0d7497 627 selection.add_option(
628 '--break-on-reject',
629 action='store_true', dest='break_on_reject', default=False,
8a51f564 630 help='Stop the download process when encountering a file that has been filtered out')
b222c271 631 selection.add_option(
632 '--break-per-input',
633 action='store_true', dest='break_per_url', default=False,
490110c5 634 help='Make --break-on-existing, --break-on-reject and --max-downloads act only on the current input URL')
b222c271 635 selection.add_option(
636 '--no-break-per-input',
637 action='store_false', dest='break_per_url',
490110c5 638 help='--break-on-existing and similar options terminates the entire download queue')
26e2805c 639 selection.add_option(
640 '--skip-playlist-after-errors', metavar='N',
641 dest='skip_playlist_after_errors', default=None, type=int,
642 help='Number of allowed failures until the rest of the playlist is skipped')
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644 '--include-ads',
645 dest='include_ads', action='store_true',
d9aa2332 646 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
6623ac34 647 selection.add_option(
648 '--no-include-ads',
649 dest='include_ads', action='store_false',
d9aa2332 650 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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653 authentication.add_option(
654 '-u', '--username',
655 dest='username', metavar='USERNAME',
17941321 656 help='Login with this account ID')
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658 '-p', '--password',
659 dest='password', metavar='PASSWORD',
7a5c1cfe 660 help='Account password. If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
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661 authentication.add_option(
662 '-2', '--twofactor',
663 dest='twofactor', metavar='TWOFACTOR',
3540fe26 664 help='Two-factor authentication code')
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665 authentication.add_option(
666 '-n', '--netrc',
667 action='store_true', dest='usenetrc', default=False,
17941321 668 help='Use .netrc authentication data')
0001fcb5 669 authentication.add_option(
670 '--netrc-location',
671 dest='netrc_location', metavar='PATH',
672 help='Location of .netrc authentication data; either the path or its containing directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc')
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673 authentication.add_option(
674 '--video-password',
675 dest='videopassword', metavar='PASSWORD',
29f7c58a 676 help='Video password (vimeo, youku)')
b31fdeed 677 authentication.add_option(
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679 dest='ap_mso', metavar='MSO',
537f7533 680 help='Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for a list of available MSOs')
b31fdeed 681 authentication.add_option(
1b6712ab 682 '--ap-username',
797c636b 683 dest='ap_username', metavar='USERNAME',
537f7533 684 help='Multiple-system operator account login')
b31fdeed 685 authentication.add_option(
1b6712ab 686 '--ap-password',
797c636b 687 dest='ap_password', metavar='PASSWORD',
7a5c1cfe 688 help='Multiple-system operator account password. If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
b31fdeed 689 authentication.add_option(
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691 action='store_true', dest='ap_list_mso', default=False,
537f7533 692 help='List all supported multiple-system operators')
bb58c9ed 693 authentication.add_option(
694 '--client-certificate',
695 dest='client_certificate', metavar='CERTFILE',
696 help='Path to client certificate file in PEM format. May include the private key')
697 authentication.add_option(
698 '--client-certificate-key',
699 dest='client_certificate_key', metavar='KEYFILE',
700 help='Path to private key file for client certificate')
701 authentication.add_option(
702 '--client-certificate-password',
703 dest='client_certificate_password', metavar='PASSWORD',
704 help='Password for client certificate private key, if encrypted. '
2dd5a2e3 705 'If not provided, and the key is encrypted, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
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707 video_format = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Format Options')
708 video_format.add_option(
709 '-f', '--format',
710 action='store', dest='format', metavar='FORMAT', default=None,
eb8a4433 711 help='Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION" for more details')
712 video_format.add_option(
c76eb41b 713 '-S', '--format-sort', metavar='SORTORDER',
e632bce2 714 dest='format_sort', default=[], type='str', action='callback',
715 callback=_list_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={'append': -1},
eb8a4433 716 help='Sort the formats by the fields given, see "Sorting Formats" for more details')
717 video_format.add_option(
718 '--format-sort-force', '--S-force',
719 action='store_true', dest='format_sort_force', metavar='FORMAT', default=False,
720 help=(
721 'Force user specified sort order to have precedence over all fields, '
2dd5a2e3 722 'see "Sorting Formats" for more details (Alias: --S-force)'))
eb8a4433 723 video_format.add_option(
724 '--no-format-sort-force',
725 action='store_false', dest='format_sort_force', metavar='FORMAT', default=False,
2dd5a2e3 726 help='Some fields have precedence over the user specified sort order (default)')
909d24dd 727 video_format.add_option(
728 '--video-multistreams',
53ed7066 729 action='store_true', dest='allow_multiple_video_streams', default=None,
91ebc640 730 help='Allow multiple video streams to be merged into a single file')
909d24dd 731 video_format.add_option(
732 '--no-video-multistreams',
733 action='store_false', dest='allow_multiple_video_streams',
91ebc640 734 help='Only one video stream is downloaded for each output file (default)')
909d24dd 735 video_format.add_option(
736 '--audio-multistreams',
53ed7066 737 action='store_true', dest='allow_multiple_audio_streams', default=None,
91ebc640 738 help='Allow multiple audio streams to be merged into a single file')
909d24dd 739 video_format.add_option(
740 '--no-audio-multistreams',
741 action='store_false', dest='allow_multiple_audio_streams',
91ebc640 742 help='Only one audio stream is downloaded for each output file (default)')
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744 '--all-formats',
745 action='store_const', dest='format', const='all',
d9aa2332 746 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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747 video_format.add_option(
748 '--prefer-free-formats',
749 action='store_true', dest='prefer_free_formats', default=False,
da9be05e 750 help=(
751 'Prefer video formats with free containers over non-free ones of same quality. '
752 'Use with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free containers irrespective of quality'))
753 video_format.add_option(
754 '--no-prefer-free-formats',
1c36c1f3 755 action='store_false', dest='prefer_free_formats', default=False,
da9be05e 756 help="Don't give any special preference to free containers (default)")
e8e73840 757 video_format.add_option(
758 '--check-formats',
9f1a1c36 759 action='store_const', const='selected', dest='check_formats', default=None,
ebc7d3ff 760 help='Make sure formats are selected only from those that are actually downloadable')
9f1a1c36 761 video_format.add_option(
762 '--check-all-formats',
763 action='store_true', dest='check_formats',
764 help='Check all formats for whether they are actually downloadable')
0ba692ac 765 video_format.add_option(
766 '--no-check-formats',
767 action='store_false', dest='check_formats',
9f1a1c36 768 help='Do not check that the formats are actually downloadable')
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770 '-F', '--list-formats',
771 action='store_true', dest='listformats',
b7b04c78 772 help='List available formats of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used')
76d321f6 773 video_format.add_option(
774 '--list-formats-as-table',
91ebc640 775 action='store_true', dest='listformats_table', default=True,
53ed7066 776 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
76d321f6 777 video_format.add_option(
6623ac34 778 '--list-formats-old', '--no-list-formats-as-table',
76d321f6 779 action='store_false', dest='listformats_table',
53ed7066 780 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
d120e901 781 video_format.add_option(
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783 action='store', dest='merge_output_format', metavar='FORMAT', default=None,
d120e901 784 help=(
4f04be6a 785 'Container to use when merging formats (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio). Ignored if no merge is required. '
786 f'(currently supported: {", ".join(sorted(FFmpegMergerPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))})'))
63ad4d43 787 video_format.add_option(
788 '--allow-unplayable-formats',
789 action='store_true', dest='allow_unplayable_formats', default=False,
88acdbc2 790 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
63ad4d43 791 video_format.add_option(
792 '--no-allow-unplayable-formats',
793 action='store_false', dest='allow_unplayable_formats',
88acdbc2 794 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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796 subtitles = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Subtitle Options')
797 subtitles.add_option(
6623ac34 798 '--write-subs', '--write-srt',
8450c15c 799 action='store_true', dest='writesubtitles', default=False,
17941321 800 help='Write subtitle file')
8450c15c 801 subtitles.add_option(
6623ac34 802 '--no-write-subs', '--no-write-srt',
803 action='store_false', dest='writesubtitles',
804 help='Do not write subtitle file (default)')
805 subtitles.add_option(
806 '--write-auto-subs', '--write-automatic-subs',
8450c15c 807 action='store_true', dest='writeautomaticsub', default=False,
e167860c 808 help='Write automatically generated subtitle file (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)')
6623ac34 809 subtitles.add_option(
810 '--no-write-auto-subs', '--no-write-automatic-subs',
811 action='store_false', dest='writeautomaticsub', default=False,
e167860c 812 help='Do not write auto-generated subtitles (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)')
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813 subtitles.add_option(
814 '--all-subs',
815 action='store_true', dest='allsubtitles', default=False,
c32b0aab 816 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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817 subtitles.add_option(
818 '--list-subs',
819 action='store_true', dest='listsubtitles', default=False,
b7b04c78 820 help='List available subtitles of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used')
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822 '--sub-format',
a504ced0 823 action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT', default='best',
2dd5a2e3 824 help='Subtitle format; accepts formats preference, Eg: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
8450c15c 825 subtitles.add_option(
e167860c 826 '--sub-langs', '--srt-langs',
8450c15c 827 action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
e632bce2 828 default=[], callback=_list_from_options_callback,
c32b0aab 829 help=(
a4211baf 830 'Languages of the subtitles to download (can be regex) or "all" separated by commas. (Eg: --sub-langs "en.*,ja") '
2dd5a2e3 831 'You can prefix the language code with a "-" to exclude it from the requested languages. (Eg: --sub-langs all,-live_chat) '
c32b0aab 832 'Use --list-subs for a list of available language tags'))
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834 downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
4cf1e5d2 835 downloader.add_option(
836 '-N', '--concurrent-fragments',
837 dest='concurrent_fragment_downloads', metavar='N', default=1, type=int,
b69fd25c 838 help='Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be downloaded concurrently (default is %default)')
8450c15c 839 downloader.add_option(
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841 dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
17941321 842 help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)')
51d9739f 843 downloader.add_option(
844 '--throttled-rate',
845 dest='throttledratelimit', metavar='RATE',
846 help='Minimum download rate in bytes per second below which throttling is assumed and the video data is re-extracted (e.g. 100K)')
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848 '-R', '--retries',
849 dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
8a51f564 850 help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite"')
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851 downloader.add_option(
852 '--file-access-retries',
45806d44 853 dest='file_access_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=3,
205a0654 854 help='Number of times to retry on file access error (default is %default), or "infinite"')
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856 '--fragment-retries',
857 dest='fragment_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
12ee65ea 858 help='Number of retries for a fragment (default is %default), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and ISM)')
23326151 859 downloader.add_option(
860 '--retry-sleep',
861 dest='retry_sleep', metavar='[TYPE:]EXPR', default={}, type='str',
862 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
863 callback_kwargs={
be5c1ae8 864 'allowed_keys': 'http|fragment|file_access|extractor',
23326151 865 'default_key': 'http',
866 }, help=(
be5c1ae8 867 'Time to sleep between retries in seconds (optionally) prefixed by the type of retry '
868 '(http (default), fragment, file_access, extractor) to apply the sleep to. '
2dd5a2e3 869 'EXPR can be a number, linear=START[:END[:STEP=1]] or exp=START[:END[:BASE=2]]. '
870 'This option can be used multiple times to set the sleep for the different retry types. '
23326151 871 'Eg: --retry-sleep linear=1::2 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20'))
9603b660 872 downloader.add_option(
c76eb41b 873 '--skip-unavailable-fragments', '--no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment',
9603b660 874 action='store_true', dest='skip_unavailable_fragments', default=True,
2dd5a2e3 875 help='Skip unavailable fragments for DASH, hlsnative and ISM downloads (default) (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)')
732fb3f8 876 downloader.add_option(
6623ac34 877 '--abort-on-unavailable-fragment', '--no-skip-unavailable-fragments',
9603b660 878 action='store_false', dest='skip_unavailable_fragments',
2dd5a2e3 879 help='Abort download if a fragment is unavailable (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)')
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881 '--keep-fragments',
882 action='store_true', dest='keep_fragments', default=False,
6623ac34 883 help='Keep downloaded fragments on disk after downloading is finished')
884 downloader.add_option(
885 '--no-keep-fragments',
886 action='store_false', dest='keep_fragments',
887 help='Delete downloaded fragments after downloading is finished (default)')
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889 '--buffer-size',
890 dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',
17941321 891 help='Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K) (default is %default)')
6623ac34 892 downloader.add_option(
893 '--resize-buffer',
894 action='store_false', dest='noresizebuffer',
895 help='The buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of --buffer-size (default)')
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897 '--no-resize-buffer',
898 action='store_true', dest='noresizebuffer', default=False,
6623ac34 899 help='Do not automatically adjust the buffer size')
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901 '--http-chunk-size',
902 dest='http_chunk_size', metavar='SIZE', default=None,
6623ac34 903 help=(
904 'Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default is disabled). '
905 'May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver (experimental)'))
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906 downloader.add_option(
907 '--test',
908 action='store_true', dest='test', default=False,
909 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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911 '--playlist-reverse',
7e9a6125 912 action='store_true', dest='playlist_reverse',
7e88d7d7 913 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
6623ac34 914 downloader.add_option(
915 '--no-playlist-reverse',
c76eb41b 916 action='store_false', dest='playlist_reverse',
7e88d7d7 917 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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919 '--playlist-random',
7e9a6125 920 action='store_true', dest='playlist_random',
75822ca7 921 help='Download playlist videos in random order')
7e9a6125 922 downloader.add_option(
923 '--lazy-playlist',
924 action='store_true', dest='lazy_playlist',
925 help='Process entries in the playlist as they are received. This disables n_entries, --playlist-random and --playlist-reverse')
926 downloader.add_option(
927 '--no-lazy-playlist',
928 action='store_false', dest='lazy_playlist',
929 help='Process videos in the playlist only after the entire playlist is parsed (default)')
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931 '--xattr-set-filesize',
932 dest='xattr_set_filesize', action='store_true',
504f20dd 933 help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size')
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934 downloader.add_option(
935 '--hls-prefer-native',
bf09af3a 936 dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true', default=None,
52a8a1e1 937 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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939 '--hls-prefer-ffmpeg',
940 dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_false', default=None,
52a8a1e1 941 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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942 downloader.add_option(
943 '--hls-use-mpegts',
9bd20204 944 dest='hls_use_mpegts', action='store_true', default=None,
6623ac34 945 help=(
9bd20204 946 'Use the mpegts container for HLS videos; '
947 'allowing some players to play the video while downloading, '
948 'and reducing the chance of file corruption if download is interrupted. '
949 'This is enabled by default for live streams'))
950 downloader.add_option(
951 '--no-hls-use-mpegts',
952 dest='hls_use_mpegts', action='store_false',
953 help=(
954 'Do not use the mpegts container for HLS videos. '
955 'This is default when not downloading live streams'))
5ec1b6b7 956 downloader.add_option(
957 '--download-sections',
958 metavar='REGEX', dest='download_ranges', action='append',
959 help=(
960 'Download only chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. '
961 'Time ranges prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place of chapters to download the specified range. '
962 'Eg: --download-sections "*10:15-15:00" --download-sections "intro". '
963 'Needs ffmpeg. This option can be used multiple times to download multiple sections'))
222516d9 964 downloader.add_option(
52a8a1e1 965 '--downloader', '--external-downloader',
966 dest='external_downloader', metavar='[PROTO:]NAME', default={}, type='str',
e632bce2 967 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
52a8a1e1 968 callback_kwargs={
969 'allowed_keys': 'http|ftp|m3u8|dash|rtsp|rtmp|mms',
cc0ec3e1 970 'default_key': 'default',
dbf5416a 971 'process': str.strip
972 }, help=(
52a8a1e1 973 'Name or path of the external downloader to use (optionally) prefixed by '
974 'the protocols (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to use it for. '
8dc59305 975 f'Currently supports native, {", ".join(sorted(list_external_downloaders()))}. '
52a8a1e1 976 'You can use this option multiple times to set different downloaders for different protocols. '
977 'For example, --downloader aria2c --downloader "dash,m3u8:native" will use '
978 'aria2c for http/ftp downloads, and the native downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads '
0a41f331 979 '(Alias: --external-downloader)'))
c75f0b36 980 downloader.add_option(
46ee996e 981 '--downloader-args', '--external-downloader-args',
982 metavar='NAME:ARGS', dest='external_downloader_args', default={}, type='str',
e632bce2 983 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
b8f6bbe6 984 callback_kwargs={
9e907ebd 985 'allowed_keys': r'ffmpeg_[io]\d*|%s' % '|'.join(map(re.escape, list_external_downloaders())),
cc0ec3e1 986 'default_key': 'default',
f9934b96 987 'process': shlex.split
dbf5416a 988 }, help=(
46ee996e 989 'Give these arguments to the external downloader. '
990 'Specify the downloader name and the arguments separated by a colon ":". '
330690a2 991 'For ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to different positions using the same syntax as --postprocessor-args. '
5d3a0e79 992 'You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different downloaders '
993 '(Alias: --external-downloader-args)'))
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995 workarounds = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Workarounds')
34a741a8 996 workarounds.add_option(
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998 dest='encoding', metavar='ENCODING',
34a741a8 999 help='Force the specified encoding (experimental)')
f81c62a6 1000 workarounds.add_option(
1001 '--legacy-server-connect',
1002 action='store_true', dest='legacy_server_connect', default=False,
1003 help='Explicitly allow HTTPS connection to servers that do not support RFC 5746 secure renegotiation')
34a741a8 1004 workarounds.add_option(
e6f21b3d 1005 '--no-check-certificates',
8450c15c 1006 action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False,
17941321 1007 help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation')
34a741a8 1008 workarounds.add_option(
6623ac34 1009 '--prefer-insecure', '--prefer-unsecure',
1010 action='store_true', dest='prefer_insecure',
e167860c 1011 help='Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video (Currently supported only for YouTube)')
34a741a8 1012 workarounds.add_option(
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1014 metavar='UA', dest='user_agent',
8b7539d2 1015 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
34a741a8 1016 workarounds.add_option(
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1018 metavar='URL', dest='referer', default=None,
8b7539d2 1019 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
34a741a8 1020 workarounds.add_option(
8450c15c 1021 '--add-header',
45016689 1022 metavar='FIELD:VALUE', dest='headers', default={}, type='str',
e632bce2 1023 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
8b7539d2 1024 callback_kwargs={'multiple_keys': False},
45016689 1025 help='Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon ":". You can use this option multiple times',
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1027 workarounds.add_option(
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1029 dest='bidi_workaround', action='store_true',
1030 help='Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH')
1cf376f5 1031 workarounds.add_option(
1032 '--sleep-requests', metavar='SECONDS',
1033 dest='sleep_interval_requests', type=float,
1034 help='Number of seconds to sleep between requests during data extraction')
5f0d813d 1035 workarounds.add_option(
065bc354 1036 '--sleep-interval', '--min-sleep-interval', metavar='SECONDS',
649f7966 1037 dest='sleep_interval', type=float,
7aa589a5 1038 help=(
e167860c 1039 'Number of seconds to sleep before each download. '
1040 'This is the minimum time to sleep when used along with --max-sleep-interval '
1041 '(Alias: --min-sleep-interval)'))
065bc354 1042 workarounds.add_option(
1043 '--max-sleep-interval', metavar='SECONDS',
1044 dest='max_sleep_interval', type=float,
e167860c 1045 help='Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can only be used along with --min-sleep-interval')
0c9df79e 1046 workarounds.add_option(
c76eb41b 1047 '--sleep-subtitles', metavar='SECONDS',
31108ce9 1048 dest='sleep_interval_subtitles', default=0, type=int,
1cf376f5 1049 help='Number of seconds to sleep before each subtitle download')
34a741a8 1050
0744a815 1051 verbosity = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Verbosity and Simulation Options')
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1052 verbosity.add_option(
1053 '-q', '--quiet',
1054 action='store_true', dest='quiet', default=False,
34488702 1055 help='Activate quiet mode. If used with --verbose, print the log to stderr')
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1056 verbosity.add_option(
1057 '--no-warnings',
1058 dest='no_warnings', action='store_true', default=False,
1059 help='Ignore warnings')
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1060 verbosity.add_option(
1061 '-s', '--simulate',
b7b04c78 1062 action='store_true', dest='simulate', default=None,
17941321 1063 help='Do not download the video and do not write anything to disk')
b7b04c78 1064 verbosity.add_option(
1065 '--no-simulate',
1066 action='store_false', dest='simulate',
1067 help='Download the video even if printing/listing options are used')
b7da73eb 1068 verbosity.add_option(
1069 '--ignore-no-formats-error',
1070 action='store_true', dest='ignore_no_formats_error', default=False,
1071 help=(
0930b11f 1072 'Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for extracting metadata '
34488702 1073 'even if the videos are not actually available for download (experimental)'))
b7da73eb 1074 verbosity.add_option(
1075 '--no-ignore-no-formats-error',
1076 action='store_false', dest='ignore_no_formats_error',
1077 help='Throw error when no downloadable video formats are found (default)')
8450c15c 1078 verbosity.add_option(
6623ac34 1079 '--skip-download', '--no-download',
8450c15c 1080 action='store_true', dest='skip_download', default=False,
e167860c 1081 help='Do not download the video but write all related files (Alias: --no-download)')
53c18592 1082 verbosity.add_option(
ad3dc496 1083 '-O', '--print',
ca30f449 1084 metavar='[WHEN:]TEMPLATE', dest='forceprint', default={}, type='str',
1085 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
1086 callback_kwargs={
ed5835b4 1087 'allowed_keys': 'video|' + '|'.join(map(re.escape, POSTPROCESS_WHEN)),
ca30f449 1088 'default_key': 'video',
1089 'multiple_keys': False,
1090 'append': True,
1091 }, help=(
ed5835b4 1092 'Field name or output template to print to screen, optionally prefixed with when to print it, separated by a ":". '
1093 'Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of --use-postprocessor, and "video" (default). '
62f6f1cb 1094 'Implies --quiet. Implies --simulate unless --no-simulate or later stages of WHEN are used. '
1095 'This option can be used multiple times'))
bb66c247 1096 verbosity.add_option(
1097 '--print-to-file',
1098 metavar='[WHEN:]TEMPLATE FILE', dest='print_to_file', default={}, type='str', nargs=2,
1099 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
1100 callback_kwargs={
1101 'allowed_keys': 'video|' + '|'.join(map(re.escape, POSTPROCESS_WHEN)),
1102 'default_key': 'video',
1103 'multiple_keys': False,
1104 'append': True,
1105 }, help=(
1106 'Append given template to the file. The values of WHEN and TEMPLATE are same as that of --print. '
1107 'FILE uses the same syntax as the output template. This option can be used multiple times'))
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1108 verbosity.add_option(
1109 '-g', '--get-url',
1110 action='store_true', dest='geturl', default=False,
53c18592 1111 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1112 verbosity.add_option(
1113 '-e', '--get-title',
1114 action='store_true', dest='gettitle', default=False,
53c18592 1115 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1116 verbosity.add_option(
1117 '--get-id',
1118 action='store_true', dest='getid', default=False,
53c18592 1119 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1120 verbosity.add_option(
1121 '--get-thumbnail',
1122 action='store_true', dest='getthumbnail', default=False,
53c18592 1123 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1124 verbosity.add_option(
1125 '--get-description',
1126 action='store_true', dest='getdescription', default=False,
53c18592 1127 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1128 verbosity.add_option(
1129 '--get-duration',
1130 action='store_true', dest='getduration', default=False,
53c18592 1131 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1132 verbosity.add_option(
1133 '--get-filename',
1134 action='store_true', dest='getfilename', default=False,
53c18592 1135 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1136 verbosity.add_option(
1137 '--get-format',
1138 action='store_true', dest='getformat', default=False,
53c18592 1139 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1140 verbosity.add_option(
1141 '-j', '--dump-json',
1142 action='store_true', dest='dumpjson', default=False,
b7b04c78 1143 help='Quiet, but print JSON information for each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description of available keys')
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1144 verbosity.add_option(
1145 '-J', '--dump-single-json',
1146 action='store_true', dest='dump_single_json', default=False,
6623ac34 1147 help=(
b7b04c78 1148 'Quiet, but print JSON information for each url or infojson passed. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used. '
1149 'If the URL refers to a playlist, the whole playlist information is dumped in a single line'))
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1150 verbosity.add_option(
1151 '--print-json',
1152 action='store_true', dest='print_json', default=False,
b7b04c78 1153 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
2d30509f 1154 verbosity.add_option(
c76eb41b 1155 '--force-write-archive', '--force-write-download-archive', '--force-download-archive',
2d30509f 1156 action='store_true', dest='force_write_download_archive', default=False,
1157 help=(
e58c22a0 1158 'Force download archive entries to be written as far as no errors occur, '
1159 'even if -s or another simulation option is used (Alias: --force-download-archive)'))
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1160 verbosity.add_option(
1161 '--newline',
1162 action='store_true', dest='progress_with_newline', default=False,
17941321 1163 help='Output progress bar as new lines')
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1164 verbosity.add_option(
1165 '--no-progress',
819e0531 1166 action='store_true', dest='noprogress', default=None,
17941321 1167 help='Do not print progress bar')
819e0531 1168 verbosity.add_option(
1169 '--progress',
1170 action='store_false', dest='noprogress',
1171 help='Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode')
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1172 verbosity.add_option(
1173 '--console-title',
1174 action='store_true', dest='consoletitle', default=False,
17941321 1175 help='Display progress in console titlebar')
819e0531 1176 verbosity.add_option(
1177 '--progress-template',
1178 metavar='[TYPES:]TEMPLATE', dest='progress_template', default={}, type='str',
1179 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
1180 callback_kwargs={
1181 'allowed_keys': '(download|postprocess)(-title)?',
1182 'default_key': 'download'
1183 }, help=(
1184 'Template for progress outputs, optionally prefixed with one of "download:" (default), '
1185 '"download-title:" (the console title), "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:". '
1186 'The video\'s fields are accessible under the "info" key and '
0930b11f 1187 'the progress attributes are accessible under "progress" key. E.g.: '
819e0531 1188 # TODO: Document the fields inside "progress"
1189 '--console-title --progress-template "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"'))
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1190 verbosity.add_option(
1191 '-v', '--verbose',
1192 action='store_true', dest='verbose', default=False,
17941321 1193 help='Print various debugging information')
8450c15c 1194 verbosity.add_option(
8bba753c 1195 '--dump-pages', '--dump-intermediate-pages',
8450c15c 1196 action='store_true', dest='dump_intermediate_pages', default=False,
79979c68 1197 help='Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)')
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1198 verbosity.add_option(
1199 '--write-pages',
1200 action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False,
1201 help='Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems')
f95b9dee 1202 verbosity.add_option(
1203 '--load-pages',
1204 action='store_true', dest='load_pages', default=False,
1205 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1206 verbosity.add_option(
1207 '--youtube-print-sig-code',
1208 action='store_true', dest='youtube_print_sig_code', default=False,
1209 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1210 verbosity.add_option(
2f543a21 1211 '--print-traffic', '--dump-headers',
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1212 dest='debug_printtraffic', action='store_true', default=False,
1213 help='Display sent and read HTTP traffic')
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1214 verbosity.add_option(
1215 '-C', '--call-home',
1216 dest='call_home', action='store_true', default=False,
19a03940 1217 # help='Contact the yt-dlp server for debugging')
8d801631 1218 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1219 verbosity.add_option(
1220 '--no-call-home',
6623ac34 1221 dest='call_home', action='store_false',
7a5c1cfe 1222 # help='Do not contact the yt-dlp server for debugging (default)')
8d801631 1223 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1225 filesystem = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Filesystem Options')
1226 filesystem.add_option(
1227 '-a', '--batch-file',
1228 dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
940a67a3 1229 help=(
1230 'File containing URLs to download ("-" for stdin), one URL per line. '
1231 'Lines starting with "#", ";" or "]" are considered as comments and ignored'))
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1233 '--no-batch-file',
1234 dest='batchfile', action='store_const', const=None,
1235 help='Do not read URLs from batch file (default)')
19b824f6 1236 filesystem.add_option(
1237 '--id', default=False,
1238 action='store_true', dest='useid', help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
0202b52a 1239 filesystem.add_option(
1240 '-P', '--paths',
d74a58a1 1241 metavar='[TYPES:]PATH', dest='paths', default={}, type='str',
e632bce2 1242 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
d74a58a1 1243 callback_kwargs={
9e907ebd 1244 'allowed_keys': 'home|temp|%s' % '|'.join(map(re.escape, OUTTMPL_TYPES.keys())),
d74a58a1 1245 'default_key': 'home'
1246 }, help=(
0202b52a 1247 'The paths where the files should be downloaded. '
de6000d9 1248 'Specify the type of file and the path separated by a colon ":". '
6a34813a 1249 'All the same TYPES as --output are supported. '
d74a58a1 1250 'Additionally, you can also provide "home" (default) and "temp" paths. '
0202b52a 1251 'All intermediary files are first downloaded to the temp path and '
1252 'then the final files are moved over to the home path after download is finished. '
de6000d9 1253 'This option is ignored if --output is an absolute path'))
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1254 filesystem.add_option(
1255 '-o', '--output',
d818eb74 1256 metavar='[TYPES:]TEMPLATE', dest='outtmpl', default={}, type='str',
e632bce2 1257 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
de6000d9 1258 callback_kwargs={
9e907ebd 1259 'allowed_keys': '|'.join(map(re.escape, OUTTMPL_TYPES.keys())),
cc0ec3e1 1260 'default_key': 'default'
dbf5416a 1261 }, help='Output filename template; see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details')
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1263 '--output-na-placeholder',
0bc0a322 1264 dest='outtmpl_na_placeholder', metavar='TEXT', default='NA',
2dd5a2e3 1265 help=('Placeholder for unavailable fields in "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" (default: "%default")'))
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1266 filesystem.add_option(
1267 '--autonumber-size',
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1269 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1271 '--autonumber-start',
1a241a2d 1272 dest='autonumber_start', metavar='NUMBER', default=1, type=int,
a439a3a4 1273 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1274 filesystem.add_option(
1275 '--restrict-filenames',
1276 action='store_true', dest='restrictfilenames', default=False,
1277 help='Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames')
6623ac34 1278 filesystem.add_option(
1279 '--no-restrict-filenames',
c2934512 1280 action='store_false', dest='restrictfilenames',
6623ac34 1281 help='Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in filenames (default)')
c2934512 1282 filesystem.add_option(
1283 '--windows-filenames',
1284 action='store_true', dest='windowsfilenames', default=False,
0930b11f 1285 help='Force filenames to be Windows-compatible')
c2934512 1286 filesystem.add_option(
1287 '--no-windows-filenames',
1288 action='store_false', dest='windowsfilenames',
0930b11f 1289 help='Make filenames Windows-compatible only if using Windows (default)')
c2934512 1290 filesystem.add_option(
1291 '--trim-filenames', '--trim-file-names', metavar='LENGTH',
1292 dest='trim_file_name', default=0, type=int,
1293 help='Limit the filename length (excluding extension) to the specified number of characters')
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1294 filesystem.add_option(
1295 '-w', '--no-overwrites',
0c3d0f51 1296 action='store_false', dest='overwrites', default=None,
1297 help='Do not overwrite any files')
1298 filesystem.add_option(
1299 '--force-overwrites', '--yes-overwrites',
1300 action='store_true', dest='overwrites',
1301 help='Overwrite all video and metadata files. This option includes --no-continue')
1302 filesystem.add_option(
1303 '--no-force-overwrites',
1304 action='store_const', dest='overwrites', const=None,
1305 help='Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite related files (default)')
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1306 filesystem.add_option(
1307 '-c', '--continue',
1308 action='store_true', dest='continue_dl', default=True,
c25228e5 1309 help='Resume partially downloaded files/fragments (default)')
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1310 filesystem.add_option(
1311 '--no-continue',
1312 action='store_false', dest='continue_dl',
c25228e5 1313 help=(
1314 'Do not resume partially downloaded fragments. '
e58c22a0 1315 'If the file is not fragmented, restart download of the entire file'))
6623ac34 1316 filesystem.add_option(
1317 '--part',
1318 action='store_false', dest='nopart', default=False,
1319 help='Use .part files instead of writing directly into output file (default)')
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1320 filesystem.add_option(
1321 '--no-part',
6623ac34 1322 action='store_true', dest='nopart',
17941321 1323 help='Do not use .part files - write directly into output file')
6623ac34 1324 filesystem.add_option(
1325 '--mtime',
1326 action='store_true', dest='updatetime', default=True,
1327 help='Use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time (default)')
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1328 filesystem.add_option(
1329 '--no-mtime',
6623ac34 1330 action='store_false', dest='updatetime',
17941321 1331 help='Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time')
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1332 filesystem.add_option(
1333 '--write-description',
1334 action='store_true', dest='writedescription', default=False,
17941321 1335 help='Write video description to a .description file')
6623ac34 1336 filesystem.add_option(
1337 '--no-write-description',
1338 action='store_false', dest='writedescription',
1339 help='Do not write video description (default)')
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1340 filesystem.add_option(
1341 '--write-info-json',
d1b5f70b 1342 action='store_true', dest='writeinfojson', default=None,
c25228e5 1343 help='Write video metadata to a .info.json file (this may contain personal information)')
6623ac34 1344 filesystem.add_option(
1345 '--no-write-info-json',
1346 action='store_false', dest='writeinfojson',
1347 help='Do not write video metadata (default)')
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1348 filesystem.add_option(
1349 '--write-annotations',
1350 action='store_true', dest='writeannotations', default=False,
0bb1bc1b 1351 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
6623ac34 1352 filesystem.add_option(
1353 '--no-write-annotations',
1354 action='store_false', dest='writeannotations',
0bb1bc1b 1355 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
cac96421 1356 filesystem.add_option(
1357 '--write-playlist-metafiles',
53ed7066 1358 action='store_true', dest='allow_playlist_files', default=None,
cac96421 1359 help=(
1360 'Write playlist metadata in addition to the video metadata '
1361 'when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc. (default)'))
1362 filesystem.add_option(
1363 '--no-write-playlist-metafiles',
1364 action='store_false', dest='allow_playlist_files',
e167860c 1365 help='Do not write playlist metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc.')
75d43ca0 1366 filesystem.add_option(
3856407a 1367 '--clean-info-json', '--clean-infojson',
e4f02757 1368 action='store_true', dest='clean_infojson', default=None,
75d43ca0 1369 help=(
1370 'Remove some private fields such as filenames from the infojson. '
1371 'Note that it could still contain some personal information (default)'))
1372 filesystem.add_option(
3856407a 1373 '--no-clean-info-json', '--no-clean-infojson',
75d43ca0 1374 action='store_false', dest='clean_infojson',
1375 help='Write all fields to the infojson')
06167fbb 1376 filesystem.add_option(
2305e2e5 1377 '--write-comments', '--get-comments',
06167fbb 1378 action='store_true', dest='getcomments', default=False,
277d6ff5 1379 help=(
2305e2e5 1380 'Retrieve video comments to be placed in the infojson. '
1381 'The comments are fetched even without this option if the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)'))
1382 filesystem.add_option(
1383 '--no-write-comments', '--no-get-comments',
dd594deb 1384 action='store_false', dest='getcomments',
2305e2e5 1385 help='Do not retrieve video comments unless the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --no-get-comments)')
8450c15c 1386 filesystem.add_option(
244fe977 1387 '--load-info-json', '--load-info',
8450c15c 1388 dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
1a48181a 1389 help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
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1390 filesystem.add_option(
1391 '--cookies',
1392 dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE',
f304da8a 1393 help='Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
6623ac34 1394 filesystem.add_option(
1395 '--no-cookies',
1396 action='store_const', const=None, dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE',
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1397 help='Do not read/dump cookies from/to file (default)')
1398 filesystem.add_option(
1399 '--cookies-from-browser',
f59f5ef8 1400 dest='cookiesfrombrowser', metavar='BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]',
982ee69a 1401 help=(
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1402 'The name of the browser and (optionally) the name/path of '
1403 'the profile to load cookies from, separated by a ":". '
1404 f'Currently supported browsers are: {", ".join(sorted(SUPPORTED_BROWSERS))}. '
1405 'By default, the most recently accessed profile is used. '
1406 'The keyring used for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux can be '
1407 '(optionally) specified after the browser name separated by a "+". '
1408 f'Currently supported keyrings are: {", ".join(map(str.lower, sorted(SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS)))}'))
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1409 filesystem.add_option(
1410 '--no-cookies-from-browser',
1411 action='store_const', const=None, dest='cookiesfrombrowser',
1412 help='Do not load cookies from browser (default)')
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1413 filesystem.add_option(
1414 '--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=None, metavar='DIR',
9ee4f0bb 1415 help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information (such as client ids and signatures) permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or ~/.cache/yt-dlp')
34a741a8 1416 filesystem.add_option(
6623ac34 1417 '--no-cache-dir', action='store_false', dest='cachedir',
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1418 help='Disable filesystem caching')
1419 filesystem.add_option(
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1420 '--rm-cache-dir',
1421 action='store_true', dest='rm_cachedir',
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1422 help='Delete all filesystem cache files')
1423
b31fdeed 1424 thumbnail = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Thumbnail Options')
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1425 thumbnail.add_option(
1426 '--write-thumbnail',
acc0d6a4 1427 action='callback', dest='writethumbnail', default=False,
1428 # Should override --no-write-thumbnail, but not --write-all-thumbnail
1429 callback=lambda option, _, __, parser: setattr(
1430 parser.values, option.dest, getattr(parser.values, option.dest) or True),
17941321 1431 help='Write thumbnail image to disk')
6623ac34 1432 thumbnail.add_option(
1433 '--no-write-thumbnail',
1434 action='store_false', dest='writethumbnail',
1435 help='Do not write thumbnail image to disk (default)')
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1436 thumbnail.add_option(
1437 '--write-all-thumbnails',
acc0d6a4 1438 action='store_const', dest='writethumbnail', const='all',
17941321 1439 help='Write all thumbnail image formats to disk')
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1440 thumbnail.add_option(
1441 '--list-thumbnails',
1442 action='store_true', dest='list_thumbnails', default=False,
b7b04c78 1443 help='List available thumbnails of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used')
cfb56d1a 1444
732044af 1445 link = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Internet Shortcut Options')
1446 link.add_option(
1447 '--write-link',
1448 action='store_true', dest='writelink', default=False,
8a51f564 1449 help='Write an internet shortcut file, depending on the current platform (.url, .webloc or .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS')
732044af 1450 link.add_option(
1451 '--write-url-link',
1452 action='store_true', dest='writeurllink', default=False,
8a51f564 1453 help='Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The OS caches the URL based on the file path')
732044af 1454 link.add_option(
1455 '--write-webloc-link',
1456 action='store_true', dest='writewebloclink', default=False,
8a51f564 1457 help='Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut')
732044af 1458 link.add_option(
1459 '--write-desktop-link',
1460 action='store_true', dest='writedesktoplink', default=False,
8a51f564 1461 help='Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut')
732044af 1462
1463 postproc = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Post-Processing Options')
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1464 postproc.add_option(
1465 '-x', '--extract-audio',
1466 action='store_true', dest='extractaudio', default=False,
e4172ac9 1467 help='Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)')
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1468 postproc.add_option(
1469 '--audio-format', metavar='FORMAT', dest='audioformat', default='best',
81a23040 1470 help=(
35faefee 1471 'Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. '
8dc59305 1472 f'(currently supported: best (default), {", ".join(sorted(FFmpegExtractAudioPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))}). '
e0ab9854 1473 'You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video'))
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1474 postproc.add_option(
1475 '--audio-quality', metavar='QUALITY',
1476 dest='audioquality', default='5',
35faefee 1477 help=(
1478 'Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with -x. '
1479 'Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default %default)'))
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1480 postproc.add_option(
1481 '--remux-video',
1482 metavar='FORMAT', dest='remuxvideo', default=None,
6623ac34 1483 help=(
35faefee 1484 'Remux the video into another container if necessary '
1485 f'(currently supported: {", ".join(FFmpegVideoRemuxerPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)}). '
1486 'If target container does not support the video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You can specify multiple rules; '
1487 'Eg. "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv'))
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1488 postproc.add_option(
1489 '--recode-video',
1490 metavar='FORMAT', dest='recodevideo', default=None,
2dd5a2e3 1491 help='Re-encode the video into another format if necessary. The syntax and supported formats are the same as --remux-video')
d84f1d14 1492 postproc.add_option(
45016689 1493 '--postprocessor-args', '--ppa',
1494 metavar='NAME:ARGS', dest='postprocessor_args', default={}, type='str',
e632bce2 1495 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
d818eb74 1496 callback_kwargs={
9e907ebd 1497 'allowed_keys': r'\w+(?:\+\w+)?',
1498 'default_key': 'default-compat',
f9934b96 1499 'process': shlex.split,
cc0ec3e1 1500 'multiple_keys': False
dbf5416a 1501 }, help=(
1b77b347 1502 'Give these arguments to the postprocessors. '
43820c03 1503 'Specify the postprocessor/executable name and the arguments separated by a colon ":" '
8fa43c73 1504 'to give the argument to the specified postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are: '
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1505 'Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters, ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor, '
1506 'Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail, SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor, '
1507 'FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. '
1508 'The supported executables are: AtomicParsley, FFmpeg and FFprobe. '
43820c03 1509 'You can also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the specified executable '
5b1ecbb3 1510 'only when being used by the specified postprocessor. Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, '
597c1866 1511 '"_i"/"_o" can be appended to the prefix optionally followed by a number to pass the argument '
1512 'before the specified input/output file. Eg: --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". '
5b1ecbb3 1513 'You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different '
1514 'postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)'))
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1515 postproc.add_option(
1516 '-k', '--keep-video',
1517 action='store_true', dest='keepvideo', default=False,
6623ac34 1518 help='Keep the intermediate video file on disk after post-processing')
1519 postproc.add_option(
1520 '--no-keep-video',
1521 action='store_false', dest='keepvideo',
1522 help='Delete the intermediate video file after post-processing (default)')
1523 postproc.add_option(
1524 '--post-overwrites',
1525 action='store_false', dest='nopostoverwrites',
1526 help='Overwrite post-processed files (default)')
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1527 postproc.add_option(
1528 '--no-post-overwrites',
1529 action='store_true', dest='nopostoverwrites', default=False,
6623ac34 1530 help='Do not overwrite post-processed files')
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1531 postproc.add_option(
1532 '--embed-subs',
1533 action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
40025ee2 1534 help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)')
6623ac34 1535 postproc.add_option(
1536 '--no-embed-subs',
1537 action='store_false', dest='embedsubtitles',
1538 help='Do not embed subtitles (default)')
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1539 postproc.add_option(
1540 '--embed-thumbnail',
1541 action='store_true', dest='embedthumbnail', default=False,
6aecd871 1542 help='Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art')
6623ac34 1543 postproc.add_option(
1544 '--no-embed-thumbnail',
1545 action='store_false', dest='embedthumbnail',
1546 help='Do not embed thumbnail (default)')
8450c15c 1547 postproc.add_option(
7e067091 1548 '--embed-metadata', '--add-metadata',
8450c15c 1549 action='store_true', dest='addmetadata', default=False,
dac5df5a 1550 help=(
1551 'Embed metadata to the video file. Also embeds chapters/infojson if present '
1552 'unless --no-embed-chapters/--no-embed-info-json are used (Alias: --add-metadata)'))
6623ac34 1553 postproc.add_option(
7e067091 1554 '--no-embed-metadata', '--no-add-metadata',
6623ac34 1555 action='store_false', dest='addmetadata',
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1556 help='Do not add metadata to file (default) (Alias: --no-add-metadata)')
1557 postproc.add_option(
1558 '--embed-chapters', '--add-chapters',
1559 action='store_true', dest='addchapters', default=None,
1560 help='Add chapter markers to the video file (Alias: --add-chapters)')
1561 postproc.add_option(
1562 '--no-embed-chapters', '--no-add-chapters',
1563 action='store_false', dest='addchapters',
1564 help='Do not add chapter markers (default) (Alias: --no-add-chapters)')
dac5df5a 1565 postproc.add_option(
1566 '--embed-info-json',
1567 action='store_true', dest='embed_infojson', default=None,
1568 help='Embed the infojson as an attachment to mkv/mka video files')
1569 postproc.add_option(
1570 '--no-embed-info-json',
1571 action='store_false', dest='embed_infojson',
1572 help='Do not embed the infojson as an attachment to the video file')
e7db87f7 1573 postproc.add_option(
1574 '--metadata-from-title',
1575 metavar='FORMAT', dest='metafromtitle',
5bfa4862 1576 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1577 postproc.add_option(
1578 '--parse-metadata',
e9f4ccd1 1579 metavar='FROM:TO', dest='parse_metadata', action='append',
6623ac34 1580 help=(
73cd218f 1581 'Parse additional metadata like title/artist from other fields; '
1582 'see "MODIFYING METADATA" for details'))
e9f4ccd1 1583 postproc.add_option(
1584 '--replace-in-metadata',
1585 dest='parse_metadata', metavar='FIELDS REGEX REPLACE', action='append', nargs=3,
1586 help='Replace text in a metadata field using the given regex. This option can be used multiple times')
8450c15c 1587 postproc.add_option(
6f7563be 1588 '--xattrs', '--xattr',
8450c15c 1589 action='store_true', dest='xattrs', default=False,
17941321 1590 help='Write metadata to the video file\'s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)')
3b603dbd 1591 postproc.add_option(
1592 '--concat-playlist',
1593 metavar='POLICY', dest='concat_playlist', default='multi_video',
1594 choices=('never', 'always', 'multi_video'),
1595 help=(
fc5fa964 1596 'Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of "never", "always", or '
1597 '"multi_video" (default; only when the videos form a single show). '
3b603dbd 1598 'All the video files must have same codecs and number of streams to be concatable. '
1599 'The "pl_video:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to '
a44ca5a4 1600 'set the output filename for the concatenated files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
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1601 postproc.add_option(
1602 '--fixup',
99594a11 1603 metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default=None,
f89b3e2d 1604 choices=('never', 'ignore', 'warn', 'detect_or_warn', 'force'),
6623ac34 1605 help=(
1606 'Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
1607 'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
f89b3e2d 1608 'detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise), '
f304da8a 1609 'force (try fixing even if file already exists)'))
8450c15c 1610 postproc.add_option(
6623ac34 1611 '--prefer-avconv', '--no-prefer-ffmpeg',
8450c15c 1612 action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',
e4172ac9 1613 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
8450c15c 1614 postproc.add_option(
6623ac34 1615 '--prefer-ffmpeg', '--no-prefer-avconv',
e4172ac9 1616 action='store_true', dest='prefer_ffmpeg', default=True,
1617 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
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1618 postproc.add_option(
1619 '--ffmpeg-location', '--avconv-location', metavar='PATH',
1620 dest='ffmpeg_location',
e4172ac9 1621 help='Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory')
34a741a8 1622 postproc.add_option(
1e43a6f7 1623 '--exec',
1624 metavar='[WHEN:]CMD', dest='exec_cmd', default={}, type='str',
1625 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
1626 callback_kwargs={
1627 'allowed_keys': '|'.join(map(re.escape, POSTPROCESS_WHEN)),
1628 'default_key': 'after_move',
1629 'multiple_keys': False,
1630 'append': True,
1631 }, help=(
1632 'Execute a command, optionally prefixed with when to execute it (after_move if unspecified), separated by a ":". '
1633 'Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of --use-postprocessor. '
34488702 1634 'Same syntax as the output template can be used to pass any field as arguments to the command. '
1e43a6f7 1635 'After download, an additional field "filepath" that contains the final path of the downloaded file '
1636 'is also available, and if no fields are passed, %(filepath)q is appended to the end of the command. '
c681cb5d 1637 'This option can be used multiple times'))
1638 postproc.add_option(
1639 '--no-exec',
1e43a6f7 1640 action='store_const', dest='exec_cmd', const={},
c681cb5d 1641 help='Remove any previously defined --exec')
1642 postproc.add_option(
1643 '--exec-before-download', metavar='CMD',
ad3dc496 1644 action='append', dest='exec_before_dl_cmd',
1e43a6f7 1645 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
5520aa2d 1646 postproc.add_option(
c681cb5d 1647 '--no-exec-before-download',
a44ca5a4 1648 action='store_const', dest='exec_before_dl_cmd', const=None,
1e43a6f7 1649 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
e9fade72 1650 postproc.add_option(
e167860c 1651 '--convert-subs', '--convert-sub', '--convert-subtitles',
e9fade72 1652 metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertsubtitles', default=None,
81a23040 1653 help=(
1654 'Convert the subtitles to another format (currently supported: %s) '
8dc59305 1655 '(Alias: --convert-subtitles)' % ', '.join(sorted(FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))))
8fa43c73 1656 postproc.add_option(
1657 '--convert-thumbnails',
1658 metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertthumbnails', default=None,
81a23040 1659 help=(
1660 'Convert the thumbnails to another format '
8dc59305 1661 f'(currently supported: {", ".join(sorted(FFmpegThumbnailsConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))}). '
00bbc5f1 1662 'You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video'))
72755351 1663 postproc.add_option(
1664 '--split-chapters', '--split-tracks',
1665 dest='split_chapters', action='store_true', default=False,
1666 help=(
1667 'Split video into multiple files based on internal chapters. '
1668 'The "chapter:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to '
1669 'set the output filename for the split files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
1670 postproc.add_option(
1671 '--no-split-chapters', '--no-split-tracks',
1672 dest='split_chapters', action='store_false',
1673 help='Do not split video based on chapters (default)')
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1674 postproc.add_option(
1675 '--remove-chapters',
1676 metavar='REGEX', dest='remove_chapters', action='append',
2d9ec704 1677 help=(
1678 'Remove chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. '
5ec1b6b7 1679 'The syntax is the same as --download-sections. This option can be used multiple times'))
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1680 postproc.add_option(
1681 '--no-remove-chapters', dest='remove_chapters', action='store_const', const=None,
1682 help='Do not remove any chapters from the file (default)')
1683 postproc.add_option(
1684 '--force-keyframes-at-cuts',
1685 action='store_true', dest='force_keyframes_at_cuts', default=False,
1686 help=(
5ec1b6b7 1687 'Force keyframes at cuts when downloading/splitting/removing sections. '
1688 'This is slow due to needing a re-encode, but the resulting video may have fewer artifacts around the cuts'))
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1689 postproc.add_option(
1690 '--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts',
1691 action='store_false', dest='force_keyframes_at_cuts',
1692 help='Do not force keyframes around the chapters when cutting/splitting (default)')
3ae5e797 1693 _postprocessor_opts_parser = lambda key, val='': (
1694 *(item.split('=', 1) for item in (val.split(';') if val else [])),
1695 ('key', remove_end(key, 'PP')))
1696 postproc.add_option(
1697 '--use-postprocessor',
1698 metavar='NAME[:ARGS]', dest='add_postprocessors', default=[], type='str',
1699 action='callback', callback=_list_from_options_callback,
1700 callback_kwargs={
1701 'delim': None,
1702 'process': lambda val: dict(_postprocessor_opts_parser(*val.split(':', 1)))
1703 }, help=(
1704 'The (case sensitive) name of plugin postprocessors to be enabled, '
e75bb0d6 1705 'and (optionally) arguments to be passed to it, separated by a colon ":". '
3ae5e797 1706 'ARGS are a semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE. '
1707 'The "when" argument determines when the postprocessor is invoked. '
09b49e1f 1708 'It can be one of "pre_process" (after video extraction), "after_filter" (after video passes filter), '
1709 '"before_dl" (before each video download), "post_process" (after each video download; default), '
1710 '"after_move" (after moving video file to it\'s final locations), '
ebed8b37 1711 '"after_video" (after downloading and processing all formats of a video), '
09b49e1f 1712 'or "playlist" (at end of playlist). '
3ae5e797 1713 'This option can be used multiple times to add different postprocessors'))
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1715 sponsorblock = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'SponsorBlock Options', description=(
1716 'Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor, introductions, etc.) '
1717 'from downloaded YouTube videos using the SponsorBlock API (https://sponsor.ajay.app)'))
1718 sponsorblock.add_option(
1719 '--sponsorblock-mark', metavar='CATS',
1720 dest='sponsorblock_mark', default=set(), action='callback', type='str',
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1721 callback=_set_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={
1722 'allowed_values': SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys(),
1723 'aliases': {'default': ['all']}
1724 }, help=(
7a340e0d 1725 'SponsorBlock categories to create chapters for, separated by commas. '
2dd5a2e3 1726 f'Available categories are {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())}, all and default (=all). '
1727 'You can prefix the category with a "-" to exclude it. See [1] for description of the categories. '
8157a09d 1728 'Eg: --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview [1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories'))
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1729 sponsorblock.add_option(
1730 '--sponsorblock-remove', metavar='CATS',
1731 dest='sponsorblock_remove', default=set(), action='callback', type='str',
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1732 callback=_set_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={
1733 'allowed_values': set(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys()) - set(SponsorBlockPP.POI_CATEGORIES.keys()),
1734 # Note: From https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Types:
1735 # The filler category is very aggressive.
1736 # It is strongly recommended to not use this in a client by default.
1737 'aliases': {'default': ['all', '-filler']}
1738 }, help=(
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1739 'SponsorBlock categories to be removed from the video file, separated by commas. '
1740 'If a category is present in both mark and remove, remove takes precedence. '
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1741 'The syntax and available categories are the same as for --sponsorblock-mark '
1742 'except that "default" refers to "all,-filler" '
1743 f'and {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.POI_CATEGORIES.keys())} is not available'))
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1744 sponsorblock.add_option(
1745 '--sponsorblock-chapter-title', metavar='TEMPLATE',
1746 default=DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE, dest='sponsorblock_chapter_title',
1747 help=(
2dd5a2e3 1748 'An output template for the title of the SponsorBlock chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark. '
1749 'The only available fields are start_time, end_time, category, categories, name, category_names. '
1750 'Defaults to "%default"'))
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1751 sponsorblock.add_option(
1752 '--no-sponsorblock', default=False,
1753 action='store_true', dest='no_sponsorblock',
1754 help='Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and --sponsorblock-remove')
1755 sponsorblock.add_option(
1756 '--sponsorblock-api', metavar='URL',
1757 default='https://sponsor.ajay.app', dest='sponsorblock_api',
1758 help='SponsorBlock API location, defaults to %default')
1759
1760 sponsorblock.add_option(
a9e7f546 1761 '--sponskrub',
165efb82 1762 action='store_true', dest='sponskrub', default=False,
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1763 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1764 sponsorblock.add_option(
a9e7f546 1765 '--no-sponskrub',
1766 action='store_false', dest='sponskrub',
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1767 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1768 sponsorblock.add_option(
a9e7f546 1769 '--sponskrub-cut', default=False,
1770 action='store_true', dest='sponskrub_cut',
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1771 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1772 sponsorblock.add_option(
6623ac34 1773 '--no-sponskrub-cut',
1774 action='store_false', dest='sponskrub_cut',
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1775 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1776 sponsorblock.add_option(
a9e7f546 1777 '--sponskrub-force', default=False,
1778 action='store_true', dest='sponskrub_force',
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1779 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1780 sponsorblock.add_option(
6623ac34 1781 '--no-sponskrub-force',
1782 action='store_true', dest='sponskrub_force',
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1783 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1784 sponsorblock.add_option(
a9e7f546 1785 '--sponskrub-location', metavar='PATH',
1786 dest='sponskrub_path', default='',
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1787 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
1788 sponsorblock.add_option(
c76eb41b 1789 '--sponskrub-args', dest='sponskrub_args', metavar='ARGS',
1b77b347 1790 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
a9e7f546 1791
78895bd3 1792 extractor = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Extractor Options')
62bff2c1 1793 extractor.add_option(
1794 '--extractor-retries',
d6e51845 1795 dest='extractor_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=3,
62bff2c1 1796 help='Number of retries for known extractor errors (default is %default), or "infinite"')
78895bd3 1797 extractor.add_option(
6623ac34 1798 '--allow-dynamic-mpd', '--no-ignore-dynamic-mpd',
78895bd3 1799 action='store_true', dest='dynamic_mpd', default=True,
8a51f564 1800 help='Process dynamic DASH manifests (default) (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)')
78895bd3 1801 extractor.add_option(
6623ac34 1802 '--ignore-dynamic-mpd', '--no-allow-dynamic-mpd',
78895bd3 1803 action='store_false', dest='dynamic_mpd',
8a51f564 1804 help='Do not process dynamic DASH manifests (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)')
310c2ed2 1805 extractor.add_option(
1806 '--hls-split-discontinuity',
1807 dest='hls_split_discontinuity', action='store_true', default=False,
1808 help='Split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks'
1809 )
1810 extractor.add_option(
1811 '--no-hls-split-discontinuity',
1812 dest='hls_split_discontinuity', action='store_false',
1813 help='Do not split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks (default)')
042931a5 1814 _extractor_arg_parser = lambda key, vals='': (key.strip().lower().replace('-', '_'), [
1815 val.replace(r'\,', ',').strip() for val in re.split(r'(?<!\\),', vals)])
5d3a0e79 1816 extractor.add_option(
1817 '--extractor-args',
1818 metavar='KEY:ARGS', dest='extractor_args', default={}, type='str',
1819 action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
1820 callback_kwargs={
1821 'multiple_keys': False,
1822 'process': lambda val: dict(
4bb6b02f 1823 _extractor_arg_parser(*arg.split('=', 1)) for arg in val.split(';'))
dbf5416a 1824 }, help=(
5d3a0e79 1825 'Pass these arguments to the extractor. See "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. '
4bb6b02f 1826 'You can use this option multiple times to give arguments for different extractors'))
e409895f 1827 extractor.add_option(
1828 '--youtube-include-dash-manifest', '--no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest',
1829 action='store_true', dest='youtube_include_dash_manifest', default=True,
5d3a0e79 1830 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
e409895f 1831 extractor.add_option(
1832 '--youtube-skip-dash-manifest', '--no-youtube-include-dash-manifest',
1833 action='store_false', dest='youtube_include_dash_manifest',
5d3a0e79 1834 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
e409895f 1835 extractor.add_option(
1836 '--youtube-include-hls-manifest', '--no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest',
1837 action='store_true', dest='youtube_include_hls_manifest', default=True,
5d3a0e79 1838 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
e409895f 1839 extractor.add_option(
1840 '--youtube-skip-hls-manifest', '--no-youtube-include-hls-manifest',
1841 action='store_false', dest='youtube_include_hls_manifest',
5d3a0e79 1842 help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
78895bd3 1843
34a741a8 1844 parser.add_option_group(general)
be4a824d 1845 parser.add_option_group(network)
0aa10994 1846 parser.add_option_group(geo)
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1847 parser.add_option_group(selection)
1848 parser.add_option_group(downloader)
1849 parser.add_option_group(filesystem)
cfb56d1a 1850 parser.add_option_group(thumbnail)
732044af 1851 parser.add_option_group(link)
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1852 parser.add_option_group(verbosity)
1853 parser.add_option_group(workarounds)
1854 parser.add_option_group(video_format)
1855 parser.add_option_group(subtitles)
1856 parser.add_option_group(authentication)
1857 parser.add_option_group(postproc)
7a340e0d 1858 parser.add_option_group(sponsorblock)
78895bd3 1859 parser.add_option_group(extractor)
34a741a8 1860
06e57990 1861 return parser
7303f84a 1862
e66dca5e 1863
06e57990 1864def _hide_login_info(opts):
1865 write_string(
1866 'DeprecationWarning: "yt_dlp.options._hide_login_info" is deprecated and may be removed in a future version. '
1867 'Use "yt_dlp.utils.Config.hide_login_info" instead\n')
1868 return Config.hide_login_info(opts)