2 description: Ask yt-dlp related question
10 Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp:
12 - label: I'm asking a question and **not** reporting a bug/feature request
14 - label: I've looked through the [README](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme)
16 - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
18 - label: I've searched the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar questions including closed ones
25 Ask your question in an arbitrary form.
26 Please make sure it's worded well enough to be understood, see [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient).
27 Provide any additional information and as much context and examples as possible.
28 If your question contains "isn't working" or "can you add", this is most likely the wrong template
29 placeholder: WRITE QUESTION HERE
37 If your question involes a yt-dlp command, provide the complete verbose output of that command.
38 Add the `-vU` flag to **your** command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`), copy the WHOLE output and insert it below.
39 It should look similar to this:
41 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
42 [debug] Portable config file: yt-dlp.conf
43 [debug] Portable config: ['-i']
44 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, stdout utf-8, stderr utf-8, pref cp1252
45 [debug] yt-dlp version 2021.12.01 (exe)
46 [debug] Python version 3.8.8 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
47 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1, ffprobe 3.0.1
48 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, keyring, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
50 yt-dlp is up to date (2021.12.01)