3 [](#readme)
5 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest)
6 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/actions)
7 [](LICENSE)
8 [](Collaborators.md#collaborators)
9 [](supportedsites.md)
10 []
(https://discord.gg/H5MNcFW63r)
11 []
(https://yt-dlp.readthedocs.io)
12 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits)
13 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits)
14 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest)
15 []
(https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp)
19 yt-dlp is a
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) fork based on the now inactive
[youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc). The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project
21 * [NEW FEATURES](#new-features)
22 * [Differences in default behavior](#differences-in-default-behavior)
23 * [INSTALLATION](#installation)
25 * [Release Files](#release-files)
26 * [Dependencies](#dependencies)
28 * [USAGE AND OPTIONS](#usage-and-options)
29 * [General Options](#general-options)
30 * [Network Options](#network-options)
31 * [Geo-restriction](#geo-restriction)
32 * [Video Selection](#video-selection)
33 * [Download Options](#download-options)
34 * [Filesystem Options](#filesystem-options)
35 * [Thumbnail Options](#thumbnail-options)
36 * [Internet Shortcut Options](#internet-shortcut-options)
37 * [Verbosity and Simulation Options](#verbosity-and-simulation-options)
38 * [Workarounds](#workarounds)
39 * [Video Format Options](#video-format-options)
40 * [Subtitle Options](#subtitle-options)
41 * [Authentication Options](#authentication-options)
42 * [Post-processing Options](#post-processing-options)
43 * [SponsorBlock Options](#sponsorblock-options)
44 * [Extractor Options](#extractor-options)
45 * [CONFIGURATION](#configuration)
46 * [Authentication with .netrc file](#authentication-with-netrc-file)
47 * [OUTPUT TEMPLATE](#output-template)
48 * [Output template and Windows batch files](#output-template-and-windows-batch-files)
49 * [Output template examples](#output-template-examples)
50 * [FORMAT SELECTION](#format-selection)
51 * [Filtering Formats](#filtering-formats)
52 * [Sorting Formats](#sorting-formats)
53 * [Format Selection examples](#format-selection-examples)
54 * [MODIFYING METADATA](#modifying-metadata)
55 * [Modifying metadata examples](#modifying-metadata-examples)
56 * [EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS](#extractor-arguments)
58 * [EMBEDDING YT-DLP](#embedding-yt-dlp)
59 * [DEPRECATED OPTIONS](#deprecated-options)
60 * [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp)
61 * [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
62 * [Developer Instructions](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
67 The major new features from the latest release of
[blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) are:
69 * **
[SponsorBlock Integration](#sponsorblock-options)**: You can mark/remove sponsor sections in youtube videos by utilizing the [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) API
71 * **[Format Sorting](#sorting-formats)**: The default format sorting options have been changed so that higher resolution and better codecs will be now preferred instead of simply using larger bitrate. Furthermore, you can now specify the sort order using
`-S`. This allows for much easier format selection than what is possible by simply using
`--format` ([examples](#format-selection-examples))
73 * **Merged with youtube-dl
[commit/379f52a](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/379f52a4954013767219d25099cce9e0f9401961)**: (v2021.06
.06) You get all the latest features and patches of
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) in addition to all the features of
[youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)
75 * **Merged with animelover1984/youtube-dl**: You get most of the features and improvements from
[animelover1984/youtube-dl](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl) including
`--write-comments`,
`BiliBiliSearch`,
`BilibiliChannel`, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, playlist infojson etc. Note that the NicoNico improvements are not available. See
[#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.
77 * **Youtube improvements**:
78 * All Feeds (
`:ytfav`,
`:ytwatchlater`,
`:ytsubs`,
`:ythistory`,
`:ytrec`) and private playlists supports downloading multiple pages of content
79 * Search (
`ytsearch:`,
`ytsearchdate:`), search URLs and in-channel search works
80 * Mixes supports downloading multiple pages of content
81 * Most (but not all) age-gated content can be downloaded without cookies
82 * Fix for
[n-sig based throttling](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326)
83 * Redirect channel's home URL automatically to
`/video` to preserve the old behaviour
84 * `255kbps` audio is extracted (if available) from youtube music when premium cookies are given
85 * Youtube music Albums, channels etc can be downloaded (
[except self-uploaded music](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/723))
87 * **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using
`--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]`
89 * **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using
`--split-chapters`
91 * **Multi-threaded fragment downloads**: Download multiple fragments of m3u8/mpd videos in parallel. Use
`--concurrent-fragments` (
`-N`) option to set the number of threads used
93 * **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use
`aria2c` as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats
95 * **New extractors**: AnimeLab, Philo MSO, Spectrum MSO, SlingTV MSO, Cablevision MSO, RCN MSO, Rcs, Gedi, bitwave.tv, mildom, audius, zee5, mtv.it, wimtv, pluto.tv, niconico users, discoveryplus.in, mediathek, NFHSNetwork, nebula, ukcolumn, whowatch, MxplayerShow, parlview (au), YoutubeWebArchive, fancode, Saitosan, ShemarooMe, telemundo, VootSeries, SonyLIVSeries, HotstarSeries, VidioPremier, VidioLive, RCTIPlus, TBS Live, douyin, pornflip, ParamountPlusSeries, ScienceChannel, Utreon, OpenRec, BandcampMusic, blackboardcollaborate, eroprofile albums, mirrativ, BannedVideo, bilibili categories, Epicon, filmmodu, GabTV, HungamaAlbum, ManotoTV, Niconico search, Patreon User, peloton, ProjectVeritas, radiko, StarTV, tiktok user, Tokentube, voicy, TV2HuSeries, biliintl,
17live, NewgroundsUser, peertube channel/playlist, ZenYandex, CAM4, CGTN, damtomo, gotostage, Koo, Mediaite, Mediaklikk, MuseScore, nzherald, Olympics replay, radlive, SovietsCloset, Streamanity, Theta, Chingari, ciscowebex, Gettr, GoPro, N1, Theta, Veo, Vupload, NovaPlay, SkyNewsAU, EUScreen, Gronkh, microsoftstream, on24, trovo channels
97 * **Fixed/improved extractors**: archive.org, roosterteeth.com, skyit, instagram, itv, SouthparkDe, spreaker, Vlive, akamai, ina, rumble, tennistv, amcnetworks, la7 podcasts, linuxacadamy, nitter, twitcasting, viu, crackle, curiositystream, mediasite, rmcdecouverte, sonyliv, tubi, tenplay, patreon, videa, yahoo, BravoTV, crunchyroll, RTP, viki, Hotstar, vidio, vimeo, mediaset, Mxplayer, nbcolympics, ParamountPlus, Newgrounds, SAML Verizon login, Hungama, afreecatv, aljazeera, ATV, bitchute, camtube, CDA, eroprofile, facebook, HearThisAtIE, iwara, kakao, Motherless, Nova, peertube, pornhub, reddit, tiktok, TV2, TV2Hu, tv5mondeplus, VH1, Viafree, XHamster,
9Now, AnimalPlanet, Arte, CBC, Chingari, comedycentral, DIYNetwork, niconico, dw, funimation, globo, HiDive, NDR, Nuvid, Oreilly, pbs, plutotv, reddit, redtube, soundcloud, SpankBang, VrtNU, bbc, Bilibili, LinkedInLearning, parliamentlive, PolskieRadio, Streamable, vidme, francetv,
7plus, tagesschau
99 * **Subtitle extraction from manifests**: Subtitles can be extracted from streaming media manifests. See
[commit/be6202f](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/be6202f12b97858b9d716e608394b51065d0419f) for details
101 * **Multiple paths and output templates**: You can give different [output templates](#output-template) and download paths for different types of files. You can also set a temporary path where intermediary files are downloaded to using
`--paths` (
`-P`)
103 * **Portable Configuration**: Configuration files are automatically loaded from the home and root directories. See [configuration](#configuration) for details
105 * **Output template improvements**: Output templates can now have date-time formatting, numeric offsets, object traversal etc. See [output template](#output-template) for details. Even more advanced operations can also be done with the help of
`--parse-metadata` and
`--replace-in-metadata`
107 * **Other new options**:
`--print`,
`--sleep-requests`,
`--convert-thumbnails`,
`--write-link`,
`--force-download-archive`,
`--force-overwrites`,
`--break-on-reject` etc
109 * **Improvements**: Regex and other operators in
`--match-filter`, multiple
`--postprocessor-args` and
`--downloader-args`, faster archive checking, more [format selection options](#format-selection) etc
111 * **Plugin extractors**: Extractors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details
113 * **Self-updater**: The releases can be updated using
`yt-dlp -U`
116 See
[changelog](Changelog.md) or [commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes
119 **PS**: Some of these changes are already in youtube-dlc, but are still unreleased. See [this](Changelog.md#unreleased-changes-in-blackjack4494yt-dlc) for details
121 If you are coming from
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl), the amount of changes are very large. Compare
[options](#options) and [supported sites](supportedsites.md) with youtube-dl's to get an idea of the massive number of features/patches [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) has accumulated.
123 ### Differences in default behavior
125 Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtube-dlc:
127 * The options
`--auto-number` (
`-A`),
`--title` (
`-t`) and
`--literal` (
`-l`), no longer work. See [removed options](#Removed) for details
128 * `avconv` is not supported as as an alternative to
`ffmpeg`
129 * The default [output template](#output-template) is
`%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`. There is no real reason for this change. This was changed before yt-dlp was ever made public and now there are no plans to change it back to
`%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`. Instead, you may use
`--compat-options filename`
130 * The default [format sorting](#sorting-formats) is different from youtube-dl and prefers higher resolution and better codecs rather than higher bitrates. You can use the
`--format-sort` option to change this to any order you prefer, or use
`--compat-options format-sort` to use youtube-dl's sorting order
131 * The default format selector is
`bv*+ba/b`. This means that if a combined video + audio format that is better than the best video-only format is found, the former will be prefered. Use
`-f bv+ba/b` or
`--compat-options format-spec` to revert this
132 * Unlike youtube-dlc, yt-dlp does not allow merging multiple audio/video streams into one file by default (since this conflicts with the use of
`-f bv*+ba`). If needed, this feature must be enabled using
`--audio-multistreams` and
`--video-multistreams`. You can also use
`--compat-options multistreams` to enable both
133 * `--ignore-errors` is enabled by default. Use
`--abort-on-error` or
`--compat-options abort-on-error` to abort on errors instead
134 * When writing metadata files such as thumbnails, description or infojson, the same information (if available) is also written for playlists. Use
`--no-write-playlist-metafiles` or
`--compat-options no-playlist-metafiles` to not write these files
135 * `--add-metadata` attaches the
`infojson` to
`mkv` files in addition to writing the metadata when used with
`--write-infojson`. Use
`--compat-options no-attach-info-json` to revert this
136 * `playlist_index` behaves differently when used with options like
`--playlist-reverse` and
`--playlist-items`. See
[#302](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/302) for details. You can use
`--compat-options playlist-index` if you want to keep the earlier behavior
137 * The output of
`-F` is listed in a new format. Use
`--compat-options list-formats` to revert this
138 * All *experiences* of a funimation episode are considered as a single video. This behavior breaks existing archives. Use
`--compat-options seperate-video-versions` to extract information from only the default player
139 * Youtube live chat (if available) is considered as a subtitle. Use
`--sub-langs all,-live_chat` to download all subtitles except live chat. You can also use
`--compat-options no-live-chat` to prevent live chat from downloading
140 * Youtube channel URLs are automatically redirected to
`/video`. Append a
`/featured` to the URL to download only the videos in the home page. If the channel does not have a videos tab, we try to download the equivalent
`UU` playlist instead. Also,
`/live` URLs raise an error if there are no live videos instead of silently downloading the entire channel. You may use
`--compat-options no-youtube-channel-redirect` to revert all these redirections
141 * Unavailable videos are also listed for youtube playlists. Use
`--compat-options no-youtube-unavailable-videos` to remove this
142 * If
`ffmpeg` is used as the downloader, the downloading and merging of formats happen in a single step when possible. Use
`--compat-options no-direct-merge` to revert this
143 * Thumbnail embedding in
`mp4` is done with mutagen if possible. Use
`--compat-options embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley` to force the use of AtomicParsley instead
144 * Some private fields such as filenames are removed by default from the infojson. Use
`--no-clean-infojson` or
`--compat-options no-clean-infojson` to revert this
145 * When
`--embed-subs` and
`--write-subs` are used together, the subtitles are written to disk and also embedded in the media file. You can use just
`--embed-subs` to embed the subs and automatically delete the seperate file. See
[#630 (comment)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/630#issuecomment-893659460) for more info.
`--compat-options no-keep-subs` can be used to revert this
147 For ease of use, a few more compat options are available:
148 * `--compat-options all`: Use all compat options
149 * `--compat-options youtube-dl`: Same as
`--compat-options all,-multistreams`
150 * `--compat-options youtube-dlc`: Same as
`--compat-options all,-no-live-chat,-no-youtube-channel-redirect`
155 You can install yt-dlp using one of the following methods:
157 ### Using the release binary
159 You can simply download the
[correct binary file](#release-files) for your OS: **[[Windows](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)]
[[UNIX-like](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)]**
161 In UNIX-like OSes (MacOS, Linux, BSD), you can also install the same in one of the following ways:
164 sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
165 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
169 sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
170 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
174 sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
175 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
178 PS: The manpages, shell completion files etc. are available in
[yt-dlp.tar.gz](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
180 ### With [PIP](https://pypi.org/project/pip)
182 You can install the
[PyPI package](https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp) with:
184 python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp
187 You can also install without any dependencies using:
189 python3 -m pip install --no-deps -U yt-dlp
192 You can also install the master branch with:
194 python3 -m pip3 install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.zip
197 Note that on some systems, you may need to use
`py` or
`python` instead of
`python3`
199 ### With [Homebrew](https://brew.sh)
201 macOS or Linux users that are using Homebrew can also install it by:
204 brew install yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp
208 You can use
`yt-dlp -U` to update if you are [using the provided release](#using-the-release-binary)
210 If you [installed with pip](#with-pip), simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
212 If you [installed using Homebrew](#with-homebrew), run
`brew upgrade yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp`
220 [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)|Platform-independant binary. Needs Python (recommended for **UNIX-like systems**)
221 [yt-dlp.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)|Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary (recommended for **Windows**)
227 [yt-dlp_macos](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos)|MacOS (
10.15+) standalone executable
228 [yt-dlp_x86.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86.exe)|Windows (Vista SP2+) standalone x86 (
32-bit) binary
229 [yt-dlp_min.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_min.exe)|Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary built with
`py2exe`.<br/> Does not contain
`pycryptodomex`, needs VC++
14
230 [yt-dlp_win.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_win.zip)|Unpackaged Windows executable (no auto-update)
231 [yt-dlp_macos.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos.zip)|Unpackaged MacOS (
10.15+) executable (no auto-update)
237 [yt-dlp.tar.gz](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)|Source tarball. Also contains manpages, completions, etc
238 [SHA2-512SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-512SUMS)|GNU-style SHA512 sums
239 [SHA2-256SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-256SUMS)|GNU-style SHA256 sums
242 Python versions
3.6+ (CPython and PyPy) are supported. Other versions and implementations may or may not work correctly.
244 <!-- Python
3.5+ uses VC++
14 and it is already embedded in the binary created
245 <!x-- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=
26999 --x>
246 On windows,
[Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe) is also necessary to run yt-dlp. You probably already have this, but if the executable throws an error due to missing
`MSVCR100.dll` you need to install it manually.
249 While all the other dependancies are optional,
`ffmpeg` and
`ffprobe` are highly recommended
250 * [**ffmpeg** and **ffprobe**](https://www.ffmpeg.org) - Required for
[merging seperate video and audio files](#format-selection) as well as for various [post-processing](#post-processing-options) tasks. Licence [depends on the build](https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html)
251 * [**mutagen**](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen) - For embedding thumbnail in certain formats. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/blob/master/COPYING)
252 * [**pycryptodomex**](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome) - For decrypting AES-
128 HLS streams and various other data. Licensed under
[BSD2](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/LICENSE.rst)
253 * [**websockets**](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets) - For downloading over websocket. Licensed under
[BSD3](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/blob/main/LICENSE)
254 * [**keyring**](https://github.com/jaraco/keyring) - For decrypting cookies of chromium-based browsers on Linux. Licensed under
[MIT](https://github.com/jaraco/keyring/blob/main/LICENSE)
255 * [**AtomicParsley**](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley) - For embedding thumbnail in mp4/m4a if mutagen is not present. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley/blob/master/COPYING)
256 * [**rtmpdump**](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu) - For downloading
`rtmp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu)
257 * [**mplayer**](http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html) or
[**mpv**](https://mpv.io) - For downloading
`rstp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/Copyright)
258 * [**phantomjs**](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs) - Used in extractors where javascript needs to be run. Licensed under
[BSD3](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/LICENSE.BSD)
259 * [**sponskrub**](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) - For using the now **deprecated**
[sponskrub options](#sponskrub-options). Licensed under [GPLv3+](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub/blob/master/LICENCE.md)
260 * Any external downloader that you want to use with
`--downloader`
262 To use or redistribute the dependencies, you must agree to their respective licensing terms.
264 The Windows and MacOS standalone release binaries are already built with the python interpreter, mutagen, pycryptodomex and websockets included.
266 **Note**: There are some regressions in newer ffmpeg versions that causes various issues when used alongside yt-dlp. Since ffmpeg is such an important dependancy, we provide
[custom builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/wiki/Latest#latest-autobuilds) with patches for these issues at
[yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds). See
[the readme](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#patches-applied) for details on the specifc issues solved by these builds
272 To build the Windows executable, you must have pyinstaller (and optionally mutagen, pycryptodomex, websockets). Once you have all the necessary dependencies installed, (optionally) build lazy extractors using
`devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py`, and then just run
`pyinst.py`. The executable will be built for the same architecture (
32/
64 bit) as the python used to build it.
274 py -m pip install -U pyinstaller -r requirements.txt
275 py devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
278 Note that pyinstaller
[does not support](https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller#requirements-and-tested-platforms) Python installed from the Windows store without using a virtual environment
281 You will need the required build tools:
`python`,
`make` (GNU),
`pandoc`,
`zip`,
`pytest`
282 Then simply run
`make`. You can also run
`make yt-dlp` instead to compile only the binary without updating any of the additional files
284 **Note**: In either platform,
`devscripts/update-version.py` can be used to automatically update the version number
286 You can also fork the project on github and push it to a release branch in your fork for the
[build workflow](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml) to automatically make a release for you
290 yt-dlp [OPTIONS] [--] URL [URL...]
292 `Ctrl+F` is your friend :D
293 <!-- Auto generated -->
296 -h, --help Print this help text and exit
297 --version Print program version and exit
298 -U, --update Update this program to latest version. Make
299 sure that you have sufficient permissions
300 (run with sudo if needed)
301 -i, --ignore-errors Ignore download and postprocessing errors.
302 The download will be considered successful
303 even if the postprocessing fails
304 --no-abort-on-error Continue with next video on download
305 errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in
307 --abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos if an
308 error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)
309 --dump-user-agent Display the current user-agent and exit
310 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and exit
311 --extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
313 --force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic
315 --default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
316 example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
317 from google videos for the search term
318 "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let
319 yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
320 warning when guessing). "error" just throws
321 an error. The default value "fixup_error"
322 repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
323 this is not possible instead of searching
324 --ignore-config, --no-config Disable loading any configuration files
325 except the one provided by --config-location.
326 When given inside a configuration
327 file, no further configuration files are
328 loaded. Additionally, (for backward
329 compatibility) if this option is found
330 inside the system configuration file, the
331 user configuration is not loaded
332 --config-location PATH Location of the main configuration file;
333 either the path to the config or its
335 --flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
337 --no-flat-playlist Extract the videos of a playlist
338 --mark-watched Mark videos watched (even with --simulate).
339 Currently only supported for YouTube
340 --no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (default)
341 --no-colors Do not emit color codes in output
342 --compat-options OPTS Options that can help keep compatibility
343 with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc
344 configurations by reverting some of the
345 changes made in yt-dlp. See "Differences in
346 default behavior" for details
349 --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
350 To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper
352 socks5://
127.0.0.1:
1080/. Pass in an empty
353 string (--proxy "") for direct connection
354 --socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
355 --source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
356 -4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
357 -6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
360 --geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
361 some geo-restricted sites. The default
362 proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
363 option is not present) is used for the
365 --geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking
366 X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
367 --no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via
368 faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
369 --geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with
370 explicitly provided two-letter ISO
3166-
2
372 --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with
373 explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
377 --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is
1)
378 --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
379 --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify
380 indices of the videos in the playlist
381 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
382 1,
2,
5,
8" if you want to download videos
383 indexed
1,
2,
5,
8 in the playlist. You can
384 specify range: "--playlist-items
385 1-
3,
7,
10-
13", it will download the videos
386 at index
1,
2,
3,
7,
10,
11,
12 and
13
387 --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
388 --min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
389 SIZE (e.g.
50k or
44.6m)
390 --max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
392 --date DATE Download only videos uploaded on this date.
393 The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format
394 "(now|today)[+-][
0-
9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"
395 --datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before
396 this date. The date formats accepted is the
398 --dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after
399 this date. The date formats accepted is the
401 --match-filter FILTER Generic video filter. Any field (see
402 "OUTPUT TEMPLATE") can be compared with a
403 number or a string using the operators
404 defined in "Filtering formats". You can
405 also simply specify a field to match if the
406 field is present and "!field" to check if
407 the field is not present. In addition,
408 Python style regular expression matching
409 can be done using "~=", and multiple
410 filters can be checked with "&". Use a "
\"
411 to escape "&" or quotes if needed. Eg:
412 --match-filter "!is_live & like_count>?
100
413 & description~='(?i)
\bcats \& dogs
\b'"
414 matches only videos that are not live, has
415 a like count more than
100 (or the like
416 field is not available), and also has a
417 description that contains the phrase "cats
418 & dogs" (ignoring case)
419 --no-match-filter Do not use generic video filter (default)
420 --no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers
421 to a video and a playlist
422 --yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to
423 a video and a playlist
424 --age-limit YEARS Download only videos suitable for the given
426 --download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
427 archive file. Record the IDs of all
428 downloaded videos in it
429 --break-on-existing Stop the download process when encountering
430 a file that is in the archive
431 --break-on-reject Stop the download process when encountering
432 a file that has been filtered out
433 --skip-playlist-after-errors N Number of allowed failures until the rest
434 of the playlist is skipped
435 --no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
438 -N, --concurrent-fragments N Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative
439 video that should be download concurrently
441 -r, --limit-rate RATE Maximum download rate in bytes per second
443 --throttled-rate RATE Minimum download rate in bytes per second
444 below which throttling is assumed and the
445 video data is re-extracted (e.g.
100K)
446 -R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is
10), or
448 --fragment-retries RETRIES Number of retries for a fragment (default
449 is
10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
451 --skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments for DASH,
452 hlsnative and ISM (default)
453 (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)
454 --abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading if a fragment is unavailable
455 (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)
456 --keep-fragments Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
457 downloading is finished
458 --no-keep-fragments Delete downloaded fragments after
459 downloading is finished (default)
460 --buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g.
1024 or
16K)
462 --resize-buffer The buffer size is automatically resized
463 from an initial value of --buffer-size
465 --no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer size
466 --http-chunk-size SIZE Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
467 downloading (e.g.
10485760 or
10M) (default
468 is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
469 bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
471 --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
472 --no-playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in default order
474 --playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
475 --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
477 --hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos;
478 allowing some players to play the video
479 while downloading, and reducing the chance
480 of file corruption if download is
481 interrupted. This is enabled by default for
483 --no-hls-use-mpegts Do not use the mpegts container for HLS
484 videos. This is default when not
485 downloading live streams
486 --downloader [PROTO:]NAME Name or path of the external downloader to
487 use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols
488 (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to
489 use it for. Currently supports native,
490 aria2c, avconv, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie,
491 wget (Recommended: aria2c). You can use
492 this option multiple times to set different
493 downloaders for different protocols. For
494 example, --downloader aria2c --downloader
495 "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for
496 http/ftp downloads, and the native
497 downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads
498 (Alias: --external-downloader)
499 --downloader-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the external
500 downloader. Specify the downloader name and
501 the arguments separated by a colon ":". For
502 ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to
503 different positions using the same syntax
504 as --postprocessor-args. You can use this
505 option multiple times to give different
506 arguments to different downloaders
507 (Alias: --external-downloader-args)
509 ## Filesystem Options:
510 -a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for
511 stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting
512 with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as
514 --no-batch-file Do not read URLs from batch file (default)
515 -P, --paths [TYPES:]PATH The paths where the files should be
516 downloaded. Specify the type of file and
517 the path separated by a colon ":". All the
518 same types as --output are supported.
519 Additionally, you can also provide "home"
520 (default) and "temp" paths. All
521 intermediary files are first downloaded to
522 the temp path and then the final files are
523 moved over to the home path after download
524 is finished. This option is ignored if
525 --output is an absolute path
526 -o, --output [TYPES:]TEMPLATE Output filename template; see "OUTPUT
527 TEMPLATE" for details
528 --output-na-placeholder TEXT Placeholder value for unavailable meta
529 fields in output filename template
531 --restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
532 characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
534 --no-restrict-filenames Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in
536 --windows-filenames Force filenames to be Windows-compatible
537 --no-windows-filenames Make filenames Windows-compatible only if
538 using Windows (default)
539 --trim-filenames LENGTH Limit the filename length (excluding
540 extension) to the specified number of
542 -w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite any files
543 --force-overwrites Overwrite all video and metadata files.
544 This option includes --no-continue
545 --no-force-overwrites Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite
546 related files (default)
547 -c, --continue Resume partially downloaded files/fragments
549 --no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded
550 fragments. If the file is not fragmented,
551 restart download of the entire file
552 --part Use .part files instead of writing directly
553 into output file (default)
554 --no-part Do not use .part files - write directly
556 --mtime Use the Last-modified header to set the
557 file modification time (default)
558 --no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set
559 the file modification time
560 --write-description Write video description to a .description
562 --no-write-description Do not write video description (default)
563 --write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
564 (this may contain personal information)
565 --no-write-info-json Do not write video metadata (default)
566 --write-playlist-metafiles Write playlist metadata in addition to the
567 video metadata when using --write-info-json,
568 --write-description etc. (default)
569 --no-write-playlist-metafiles Do not write playlist metadata when using
570 --write-info-json, --write-description etc.
571 --clean-infojson Remove some private fields such as
572 filenames from the infojson. Note that it
573 could still contain some personal
574 information (default)
575 --no-clean-infojson Write all fields to the infojson
576 --write-comments Retrieve video comments to be placed in the
577 infojson. The comments are fetched even
578 without this option if the extraction is
579 known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)
580 --no-write-comments Do not retrieve video comments unless the
581 extraction is known to be quick
582 (Alias: --no-get-comments)
583 --load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
584 (created with the "--write-info-json"
586 --cookies FILE File to read cookies from and dump cookie
588 --no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file
590 --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]
591 Load cookies from a user profile of the
592 given web browser. Currently supported
593 browsers are: brave, chrome, chromium,
594 edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi. You
595 can specify the user profile name or
596 directory using "BROWSER:PROFILE_NAME" or
597 "BROWSER:PROFILE_PATH". If no profile is
598 given, the most recently accessed one is
600 --no-cookies-from-browser Do not load cookies from browser (default)
601 --cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
602 can store some downloaded information (such
603 as client ids and signatures) permanently.
604 By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or
606 --no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
607 --rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
609 ## Thumbnail Options:
610 --write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
611 --no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk
613 --write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
614 --list-thumbnails List available thumbnails of each video.
615 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
617 ## Internet Shortcut Options:
618 --write-link Write an internet shortcut file, depending
619 on the current platform (.url, .webloc or
620 .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS
621 --write-url-link Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The
622 OS caches the URL based on the file path
623 --write-webloc-link Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut
624 --write-desktop-link Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut
626 ## Verbosity and Simulation Options:
627 -q, --quiet Activate quiet mode. If used with
628 --verbose, print the log to stderr
629 --no-warnings Ignore warnings
630 -s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write
632 --no-simulate Download the video even if printing/listing
634 --ignore-no-formats-error Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for
635 extracting metadata even if the videos are
636 not actually available for download
638 --no-ignore-no-formats-error Throw error when no downloadable video
639 formats are found (default)
640 --skip-download Do not download the video but write all
641 related files (Alias: --no-download)
642 -O, --print TEMPLATE Quiet, but print the given fields for each
643 video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is
644 used. Either a field name or same syntax as
645 the output template can be used
646 -j, --dump-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
647 video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is
648 used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a
649 description of available keys
650 -J, --dump-single-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
651 url or infojson passed. Simulate unless
652 --no-simulate is used. If the URL refers to
653 a playlist, the whole playlist information
654 is dumped in a single line
655 --force-write-archive Force download archive entries to be
656 written as far as no errors occur, even if
657 -s or another simulation option is used
658 (Alias: --force-download-archive)
659 --newline Output progress bar as new lines
660 --no-progress Do not print progress bar
661 --progress Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode
662 --console-title Display progress in console titlebar
663 --progress-template [TYPES:]TEMPLATE
664 Template for progress outputs, optionally
665 prefixed with one of "download:" (default),
666 "download-title:" (the console title),
667 "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:".
668 The video's fields are accessible under the
669 "info" key and the progress attributes are
670 accessible under "progress" key. E.g.:
671 --console-title --progress-template
672 "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"
673 -v, --verbose Print various debugging information
674 --dump-pages Print downloaded pages encoded using base64
675 to debug problems (very verbose)
676 --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to
677 files in the current directory to debug
679 --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
682 --encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
683 --no-check-certificates Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
684 --prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
685 information about the video (Currently
686 supported only for YouTube)
687 --user-agent UA Specify a custom user agent
688 --referer URL Specify a custom referer, use if the video
689 access is restricted to one domain
690 --add-header FIELD:VALUE Specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
691 separated by a colon ":". You can use this
692 option multiple times
693 --bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack
694 bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
695 or fribidi executable in PATH
696 --sleep-requests SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep between requests
697 during data extraction
698 --sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
699 download. This is the minimum time to sleep
700 when used along with --max-sleep-interval
701 (Alias: --min-sleep-interval)
702 --max-sleep-interval SECONDS Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can
703 only be used along with --min-sleep-interval
704 --sleep-subtitles SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
707 ## Video Format Options:
708 -f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION"
710 -S, --format-sort SORTORDER Sort the formats by the fields given, see
711 "Sorting Formats" for more details
712 --S-force, --format-sort-force Force user specified sort order to have
713 precedence over all fields, see "Sorting
714 Formats" for more details
715 --no-format-sort-force Some fields have precedence over the user
716 specified sort order (default), see
717 "Sorting Formats" for more details
718 --video-multistreams Allow multiple video streams to be merged
720 --no-video-multistreams Only one video stream is downloaded for
721 each output file (default)
722 --audio-multistreams Allow multiple audio streams to be merged
724 --no-audio-multistreams Only one audio stream is downloaded for
725 each output file (default)
726 --prefer-free-formats Prefer video formats with free containers
727 over non-free ones of same quality. Use
728 with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free
729 containers irrespective of quality
730 --no-prefer-free-formats Don't give any special preference to free
732 --check-formats Check that the selected formats are
733 actually downloadable
734 --check-all-formats Check all formats for whether they are
735 actually downloadable
736 --no-check-formats Do not check that the formats are actually
738 -F, --list-formats List available formats of each video.
739 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
740 --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g.
741 bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given
742 container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg,
743 webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required
746 --write-subs Write subtitle file
747 --no-write-subs Do not write subtitle file (default)
748 --write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file
749 (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)
750 --no-write-auto-subs Do not write auto-generated subtitles
751 (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)
752 --list-subs List available subtitles of each video.
753 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
754 --sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format, accepts formats
755 preference, for example: "srt" or
757 --sub-langs LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download (can
758 be regex) or "all" separated by commas.
759 (Eg: --sub-langs "en.*,ja") You can prefix
760 the language code with a "-" to exempt it
761 from the requested languages. (Eg: --sub-
762 langs all,-live_chat) Use --list-subs for a
763 list of available language tags
765 ## Authentication Options:
766 -u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
767 -p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left
768 out, yt-dlp will ask interactively
769 -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor authentication code
770 -n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
771 --netrc-location PATH Location of .netrc authentication data;
772 either the path or its containing
773 directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc
774 --video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, youku)
775 --ap-mso MSO Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV
776 provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for
777 a list of available MSOs
778 --ap-username USERNAME Multiple-system operator account login
779 --ap-password PASSWORD Multiple-system operator account password.
780 If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask
782 --ap-list-mso List all supported multiple-system
785 ## Post-Processing Options:
786 -x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
787 (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
788 --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format to convert the audio
789 to when -x is used. Currently supported
790 formats are: best (default) or one of
791 best|aac|flac|mp3|m4a|opus|vorbis|wav
792 --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality, insert a
793 value between
0 (better) and
9 (worse) for
794 VBR or a specific bitrate like
128K
796 --remux-video FORMAT Remux the video into another container if
797 necessary (currently supported: mp4|mkv|flv
798 |webm|mov|avi|mp3|mka|m4a|ogg|opus). If
799 target container does not support the
800 video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You
801 can specify multiple rules; Eg.
802 "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to
803 m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv.
804 --recode-video FORMAT Re-encode the video into another format if
805 re-encoding is necessary. The syntax and
806 supported formats are the same as --remux-video
807 --postprocessor-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessors.
808 Specify the postprocessor/executable name
809 and the arguments separated by a colon ":"
810 to give the argument to the specified
811 postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are:
812 Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters,
813 ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor,
814 Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail,
815 SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor,
816 FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8,
817 FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. The
818 supported executables are: AtomicParsley,
819 FFmpeg and FFprobe. You can also specify
820 "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the
821 specified executable only when being used
822 by the specified postprocessor.
823 Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o"
824 can be appended to the prefix optionally
825 followed by a number to pass the argument
826 before the specified input/output file. Eg:
827 --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can
828 use this option multiple times to give
829 different arguments to different
830 postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)
831 -k, --keep-video Keep the intermediate video file on disk
832 after post-processing
833 --no-keep-video Delete the intermediate video file after
834 post-processing (default)
835 --post-overwrites Overwrite post-processed files (default)
836 --no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files
837 --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4,
839 --no-embed-subs Do not embed subtitles (default)
840 --embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art
841 --no-embed-thumbnail Do not embed thumbnail (default)
842 --embed-metadata Embed metadata to the video file. Also adds
843 chapters to file unless --no-add-chapters
844 is used (Alias: --add-metadata)
845 --no-embed-metadata Do not add metadata to file (default)
846 (Alias: --no-add-metadata)
847 --embed-chapters Add chapter markers to the video file
848 (Alias: --add-chapters)
849 --no-embed-chapters Do not add chapter markers (default)
850 (Alias: --no-add-chapters)
851 --parse-metadata FROM:TO Parse additional metadata like title/artist
852 from other fields; see "MODIFYING METADATA"
854 --replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE
855 Replace text in a metadata field using the
856 given regex. This option can be used
858 --xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
859 (using dublin core and xdg standards)
860 --fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the
861 file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only
862 emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the
863 default; fix file if we can, warn
864 otherwise), force (try fixing even if file
866 --ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the
867 path to the binary or its containing
869 --exec CMD Execute a command on the file after
870 downloading and post-processing. Same
871 syntax as the output template can be used
872 to pass any field as arguments to the
873 command. An additional field "filepath"
874 that contains the final path of the
875 downloaded file is also available. If no
876 fields are passed, %(filepath)q is appended
877 to the end of the command. This option can
878 be used multiple times
879 --no-exec Remove any previously defined --exec
880 --exec-before-download CMD Execute a command before the actual
881 download. The syntax is the same as --exec
882 but "filepath" is not available. This
883 option can be used multiple times
884 --no-exec-before-download Remove any previously defined
885 --exec-before-download
886 --convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to another format
887 (currently supported: srt|vtt|ass|lrc)
888 (Alias: --convert-subtitles)
889 --convert-thumbnails FORMAT Convert the thumbnails to another format
890 (currently supported: jpg|png)
891 --split-chapters Split video into multiple files based on
892 internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix
893 can be used with "--paths" and "--output"
894 to set the output filename for the split
895 files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
896 --no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters
898 --remove-chapters REGEX Remove chapters whose title matches the
899 given regular expression. Time ranges
900 prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place
901 of chapters to remove the specified range.
902 Eg: --remove-chapters "*
10:
15-
15:
00"
903 --remove-chapters "intro". This option can
904 be used multiple times
905 --no-remove-chapters Do not remove any chapters from the file
907 --force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes around the chapters before
908 removing/splitting them. Requires a
909 reencode and thus is very slow, but the
910 resulting video may have fewer artifacts
912 --no-force-keyframes-at-cuts Do not force keyframes around the chapters
913 when cutting/splitting (default)
914 --use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS] The (case sensitive) name of plugin
915 postprocessors to be enabled, and
916 (optionally) arguments to be passed to it,
917 seperated by a colon ":". ARGS are a
918 semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE.
919 The "when" argument determines when the
920 postprocessor is invoked. It can be one of
921 "pre_process" (after extraction),
922 "before_dl" (before video download),
923 "post_process" (after video download;
924 default) or "after_move" (after moving file
925 to their final locations). This option can
926 be used multiple times to add different
929 ## SponsorBlock Options:
930 Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor,
931 introductions, etc.) from downloaded YouTube videos using the
932 [SponsorBlock API](https://sponsor.ajay.app)
934 --sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters
935 for, separated by commas. Available
936 categories are all, sponsor, intro, outro,
937 selfpromo, interaction, preview,
938 music_offtopic. You can prefix the category
939 with a "-" to exempt it. See
940 https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/index.php/Segment_Categories
941 for description of the categories. Eg:
942 --sponsorblock-query all,-preview
943 --sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from
944 the video file, separated by commas. If a
945 category is present in both mark and
946 remove, remove takes precedence. The syntax
947 and available categories are the same as
948 for --sponsorblock-mark
949 --sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
950 The title template for SponsorBlock
951 chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark.
952 The same syntax as the output template is
953 used, but the only available fields are
954 start_time, end_time, category, categories,
955 name, category_names. Defaults to
956 "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"
957 --no-sponsorblock Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and
958 --sponsorblock-remove
959 --sponsorblock-api URL SponsorBlock API location, defaults to
960 https://sponsor.ajay.app
962 ## Extractor Options:
963 --extractor-retries RETRIES Number of retries for known extractor
964 errors (default is
3), or "infinite"
965 --allow-dynamic-mpd Process dynamic DASH manifests (default)
966 (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)
967 --ignore-dynamic-mpd Do not process dynamic DASH manifests
968 (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)
969 --hls-split-discontinuity Split HLS playlists to different formats at
970 discontinuities such as ad breaks
971 --no-hls-split-discontinuity Do not split HLS playlists to different
972 formats at discontinuities such as ad
974 --extractor-args KEY:ARGS Pass these arguments to the extractor. See
975 "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. You can
976 use this option multiple times to give
977 arguments for different extractors
981 You can configure yt-dlp by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. The configuration is loaded from the following locations:
983 1. **Main Configuration**: The file given by
`--config-location`
984 1. **Portable Configuration**:
`yt-dlp.conf` in the same directory as the bundled binary. If you are running from source-code (
`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py`), the root directory is used instead.
985 1. **Home Configuration**:
`yt-dlp.conf` in the home path given by
`-P "home:<path>"`, or in the current directory if no such path is given
986 1. **User Configuration**:
987 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Linux/macOS)
988 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp.conf`
989 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Windows)
990 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config.txt`
992 * `~/yt-dlp.conf.txt`
994 `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%` defaults to
`~/.config` if undefined. On windows,
`%APPDATA%` generally points to (
`C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming`) and
`~` points to
`%HOME%` if present,
`%USERPROFILE%` (generally
`C:\Users\<user name>`), or
`%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
995 1. **System Configuration**:
`/etc/yt-dlp.conf`
997 For example, with the following configuration file yt-dlp will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under
`YouTube` directory in your home directory:
999 # Lines starting with # are comments
1001 # Always extract audio
1004 # Do not copy the mtime
1008 --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
1010 # Save all videos under YouTube directory in your home directory
1011 -o ~/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s
1014 Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls; thus there **must be no whitespace** after
`-` or
`--`, e.g.
`-o` or
`--proxy` but not
`- o` or
`-- proxy`.
1016 You can use
`--ignore-config` if you want to disable all configuration files for a particular yt-dlp run. If
`--ignore-config` is found inside any configuration file, no further configuration will be loaded. For example, having the option in the portable configuration file prevents loading of home, user, and system configurations. Additionally, (for backward compatibility) if
`--ignore-config` is found inside the system configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded.
1018 ### Authentication with `.netrc` file
1020 You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with
`--username` and
`--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every yt-dlp execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a
[`.netrc` file](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a
`.netrc` file in
`--netrc-location` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you:
1023 chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
1025 After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the extractor in lowercase:
1027 machine <extractor> login <username> password <password>
1031 machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password
1032 machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password
1034 To activate authentication with the
`.netrc` file you should pass
`--netrc` to yt-dlp or place it in the [configuration file](#configuration).
1036 The default location of the .netrc file is
`$HOME` (
`~`) in UNIX. On Windows, it is
`%HOME%` if present,
`%USERPROFILE%` (generally
`C:\Users\<user name>`) or
`%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
1040 The
`-o` option is used to indicate a template for the output file names while
`-P` option is used to specify the path each type of file should be saved to.
1042 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples).
1044 The simplest usage of
`-o` is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in
`yt-dlp -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"` (hard-coding file extension like this is _not_ recommended and could break some post-processing).
1046 It may however also contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to
[Python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting). For example,
`%(NAME)s` or
`%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by formatting operations.
1048 The field names themselves (the part inside the parenthesis) can also have some special formatting:
1049 1. **Object traversal**: The dictionaries and lists available in metadata can be traversed by using a
`.` (dot) separator. You can also do python slicing using
`:`. Eg:
`%(tags.0)s`,
`%(subtitles.en.-1.ext)s`,
`%(id.3:7:-1)s`,
`%(formats.:.format_id)s`.
`%()s` refers to the entire infodict. Note that all the fields that become available using this method are not listed below. Use
`-j` to see such fields
1050 1. **Addition**: Addition and subtraction of numeric fields can be done using
`+` and
`-` respectively. Eg:
`%(playlist_index+10)03d`,
`%(n_entries+1-playlist_index)d`
1051 1. **Date/time Formatting**: Date/time fields can be formatted according to
[strftime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) by specifying it separated from the field name using a
`>`. Eg:
`%(duration>%H-%M-%S)s`,
`%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s`,
`%(epoch-3600>%H-%M-%S)s`
1052 1. **Alternatives**: Alternate fields can be specified seperated with a
`,`. Eg:
`%(release_date>%Y,upload_date>%Y|Unknown)s`
1053 1. **Default**: A literal default value can be specified for when the field is empty using a
`|` seperator. This overrides
`--output-na-template`. Eg:
`%(uploader|Unknown)s`
1054 1. **More Conversions**: In addition to the normal format types
`diouxXeEfFgGcrs`,
`B`,
`j`,
`l`,
`q` can be used for converting to **B**ytes, **j**son (flag
`#` for pretty-printing), a comma seperated **l**ist (flag
`#` for
`\n` newline-seperated) and a string **q**uoted for the terminal (flag
`#` to split a list into different arguments), respectively
1055 1. **Unicode normalization**: The format type
`U` can be used for NFC
[unicode normalization](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unicodedata.html#unicodedata.normalize). The alternate form flag (
`#`) changes the normalization to NFD and the conversion flag
`+` can be used for NFKC/NFKD compatibility equivalence normalization. Eg:
`%(title)+.100U` is NFKC
1057 To summarize, the general syntax for a field is:
1059 %(name[.keys][addition][>strf][,alternate][|default])[flags][width][.precision][length]type
1062 Additionally, you can set different output templates for the various metadata files separately from the general output template by specifying the type of file followed by the template separated by a colon
`:`. The different file types supported are
`subtitle`,
`thumbnail`,
`description`,
`annotation` (deprecated),
`infojson`,
`link`,
`pl_thumbnail`,
`pl_description`,
`pl_infojson`,
`chapter`. For example,
`-o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -o 'thumbnail:%(title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s'` will put the thumbnails in a folder with the same name as the video. If any of the templates (except default) is empty, that type of file will not be written. Eg:
`--write-thumbnail -o "thumbnail:"` will write thumbnails only for playlists and not for video.
1064 The available fields are:
1066 - `id` (string): Video identifier
1067 - `title` (string): Video title
1068 - `url` (string): Video URL
1069 - `ext` (string): Video filename extension
1070 - `alt_title` (string): A secondary title of the video
1071 - `description` (string): The description of the video
1072 - `display_id` (string): An alternative identifier for the video
1073 - `uploader` (string): Full name of the video uploader
1074 - `license` (string): License name the video is licensed under
1075 - `creator` (string): The creator of the video
1076 - `timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
1077 - `upload_date` (string): Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
1078 - `release_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
1079 - `release_timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was released
1080 - `uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader
1081 - `channel` (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on
1082 - `channel_id` (string): Id of the channel
1083 - `location` (string): Physical location where the video was filmed
1084 - `duration` (numeric): Length of the video in seconds
1085 - `duration_string` (string): Length of the video (HH:mm:ss)
1086 - `view_count` (numeric): How many users have watched the video on the platform
1087 - `like_count` (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video
1088 - `dislike_count` (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the video
1089 - `repost_count` (numeric): Number of reposts of the video
1090 - `average_rating` (numeric): Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage
1091 - `comment_count` (numeric): Number of comments on the video (For some extractors, comments are only downloaded at the end, and so this field cannot be used)
1092 - `age_limit` (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
1093 - `live_status` (string): One of 'is_live', 'was_live', 'is_upcoming', 'not_live'
1094 - `is_live` (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video
1095 - `was_live` (boolean): Whether this video was originally a live stream
1096 - `playable_in_embed` (string): Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded players on other sites
1097 - `availability` (string): Whether the video is 'private', 'premium_only', 'subscriber_only', 'needs_auth', 'unlisted' or 'public'
1098 - `start_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should start, as specified in the URL
1099 - `end_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL
1100 - `format` (string): A human-readable description of the format
1101 - `format_id` (string): Format code specified by
`--format`
1102 - `format_note` (string): Additional info about the format
1103 - `width` (numeric): Width of the video
1104 - `height` (numeric): Height of the video
1105 - `resolution` (string): Textual description of width and height
1106 - `tbr` (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1107 - `abr` (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1108 - `acodec` (string): Name of the audio codec in use
1109 - `asr` (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1110 - `vbr` (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1111 - `fps` (numeric): Frame rate
1112 - `dynamic_range` (string): The dynamic range of the video
1113 - `vcodec` (string): Name of the video codec in use
1114 - `container` (string): Name of the container format
1115 - `filesize` (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance
1116 - `filesize_approx` (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes
1117 - `protocol` (string): The protocol that will be used for the actual download
1118 - `extractor` (string): Name of the extractor
1119 - `extractor_key` (string): Key name of the extractor
1120 - `epoch` (numeric): Unix epoch when creating the file
1121 - `autonumber` (numeric): Number that will be increased with each download, starting at
`--autonumber-start`
1122 - `n_entries` (numeric): Total number of extracted items in the playlist
1123 - `playlist` (string): Name or id of the playlist that contains the video
1124 - `playlist_index` (numeric): Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according the final index
1125 - `playlist_autonumber` (numeric): Position of the video in the playlist download queue padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
1126 - `playlist_id` (string): Playlist identifier
1127 - `playlist_title` (string): Playlist title
1128 - `playlist_uploader` (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
1129 - `playlist_uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader
1130 - `webpage_url` (string): A URL to the video webpage which if given to yt-dlp should allow to get the same result again
1131 - `original_url` (string): The URL given by the user (or same as
`webpage_url` for playlist entries)
1133 Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
1135 - `chapter` (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
1136 - `chapter_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to
1137 - `chapter_id` (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
1139 Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
1141 - `series` (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
1142 - `season` (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to
1143 - `season_number` (numeric): Number of the season the video episode belongs to
1144 - `season_id` (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to
1145 - `episode` (string): Title of the video episode
1146 - `episode_number` (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season
1147 - `episode_id` (string): Id of the video episode
1149 Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
1151 - `track` (string): Title of the track
1152 - `track_number` (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a disc
1153 - `track_id` (string): Id of the track
1154 - `artist` (string): Artist(s) of the track
1155 - `genre` (string): Genre(s) of the track
1156 - `album` (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
1157 - `album_type` (string): Type of the album
1158 - `album_artist` (string): List of all artists appeared on the album
1159 - `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
1160 - `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
1162 Available for
`chapter:` prefix when using
`--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
1164 - `section_title` (string): Title of the chapter
1165 - `section_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
1166 - `section_start` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1167 - `section_end` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1169 Available only when used in
`--print`:
1171 - `urls` (string): The URLs of all requested formats, one in each line
1172 - `filename` (string): Name of the video file. Note that the actual filename may be different due to post-processing. Use
`--exec echo` to get the name after all postprocessing is complete
1174 Available only in
`--sponsorblock-chapter-title`:
1176 - `start_time` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1177 - `end_time` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1178 - `categories` (list): The SponsorBlock categories the chapter belongs to
1179 - `category` (string): The smallest SponsorBlock category the chapter belongs to
1180 - `category_names` (list): Friendly names of the categories
1181 - `name` (string): Friendly name of the smallest category
1183 Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. For example for
`-o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s` and an mp4 video with title
`yt-dlp test video` and id
`BaW_jenozKc`, this will result in a
`yt-dlp test video-BaW_jenozKc.mp4` file created in the current directory.
1185 Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor. Such sequences will be replaced with placeholder value provided with
`--output-na-placeholder` (
`NA` by default).
1187 **Tip**: Look at the
`-j` output to identify which fields are available for the particular URL
1189 For numeric sequences you can use
[numeric related formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting), for example,
`%(view_count)05d` will result in a string with view count padded with zeros up to
5 characters, like in
`00042`.
1191 Output templates can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g.
`-o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'` which will result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding to this path template. Any missing directory will be automatically created for you.
1193 To use percent literals in an output template use
`%%`. To output to stdout use
`-o -`.
1195 The current default template is
`%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`.
1197 In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an
8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the
`--restrict-filenames` flag to get a shorter title:
1199 #### Output template and Windows batch files
1201 If you are using an output template inside a Windows batch file then you must escape plain percent characters (
`%`) by doubling, so that
`-o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"` should become
`-o "%%(title)s-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s"`. However you should not touch
`%`'s that are not plain characters, e.g. environment variables for expansion should stay intact:
`-o "C:\%HOMEPATH%\Desktop\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s"`.
1203 #### Output template examples
1205 Note that on Windows you need to use double quotes instead of single.
1208 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc
1209 youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
1211 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
1212 youtube-dl_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file name
1214 # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist
1215 $ yt-dlp -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
1217 # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directories according to their uploaded year
1218 $ yt-dlp -o '%(upload_date>%Y)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
1220 # Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:
1221 $ yt-dlp -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists
1223 # Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
1224 $ yt-dlp -u user -p password -P '~/MyVideos' -o '%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial/
1226 # Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
1227 $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617
1229 # Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
1230 $ yt-dlp -o - BaW_jenozKc
1235 By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you **don't** pass any options.
1236 This is generally equivalent to using
`-f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best`. However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (
`--audio-multistreams`), the default format changes to
`-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best`. Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp to stream to
`stdout` (
`-o -`), the default becomes
`-f best/bestvideo+bestaudio`.
1238 **Deprecation warning**: Latest versions of yt-dlp can stream multiple formats to the stdout simultaneously using ffmpeg. So, in future versions, the default for this will be set to
`-f bv*+ba/b` similar to normal downloads. If you want to preserve the
`-f b/bv+ba` setting, it is recommended to explicitly specify it in the configuration options.
1240 The general syntax for format selection is
`-f FORMAT` (or
`--format FORMAT`) where
`FORMAT` is a *selector expression*, i.e. an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download.
1242 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#format-selection-examples).
1244 The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with
`-f 22` you can download the format with format code equal to
22. You can get the list of available format codes for particular video using
`--list-formats` or
`-F`. Note that these format codes are extractor specific.
1246 You can also use a file extension (currently
`3gp`,
`aac`,
`flv`,
`m4a`,
`mp3`,
`mp4`,
`ogg`,
`wav`,
`webm` are supported) to download the best quality format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g.
`-f webm` will download the best quality format with the
`webm` extension served as a single file.
1248 You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:
1250 - `all`: Select **all formats** separately
1251 - `mergeall`: Select and **merge all formats** (Must be used with
`--audio-multistreams`,
`--video-multistreams` or both)
1252 - `b*`,
`best*`: Select the best quality format that **contains either** a video or an audio
1253 - `b`,
`best`: Select the best quality format that **contains both** video and audio. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
1254 - `bv`,
`bestvideo`: Select the best quality **video-only** format. Equivalent to
`best*[acodec=none]`
1255 - `bv*`,
`bestvideo*`: Select the best quality format that **contains video**. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec!=none]`
1256 - `ba`,
`bestaudio`: Select the best quality **audio-only** format. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec=none]`
1257 - `ba*`,
`bestaudio*`: Select the best quality format that **contains audio**. It may also contain video. Equivalent to
`best*[acodec!=none]`
1258 - `w*`,
`worst*`: Select the worst quality format that contains either a video or an audio
1259 - `w`,
`worst`: Select the worst quality format that contains both video and audio. Equivalent to
`worst*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
1260 - `wv`,
`worstvideo`: Select the worst quality video-only format. Equivalent to
`worst*[acodec=none]`
1261 - `wv*`,
`worstvideo*`: Select the worst quality format that contains video. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to
`worst*[vcodec!=none]`
1262 - `wa`,
`worstaudio`: Select the worst quality audio-only format. Equivalent to
`worst*[vcodec=none]`
1263 - `wa*`,
`worstaudio*`: Select the worst quality format that contains audio. It may also contain video. Equivalent to
`worst*[acodec!=none]`
1265 For example, to download the worst quality video-only format you can use
`-f worstvideo`. It is however recommended not to use
`worst` and related options. When your format selector is
`worst`, the format which is worst in all respects is selected. Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the smallest filesize instead. So it is generally better to use
`-f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps` instead of
`-f worst`. See [sorting formats](#sorting-formats) for more details.
1267 You can select the n'th best format of a type by using
`best<type>.<n>`. For example,
`best.2` will select the
2nd best combined format. Similarly,
`bv*.3` will select the
3rd best format that contains a video stream.
1269 If you want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same formats available, you can specify the order of preference using slashes. Note that formats on the left hand side are preferred, for example
`-f 22/17/18` will download format
22 if it's available, otherwise it will download format
17 if it's available, otherwise it will download format
18 if it's available, otherwise it will complain that no suitable formats are available for download.
1271 If you want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as a separator, e.g.
`-f 22,17,18` will download all these three formats, of course if they are available. Or a more sophisticated example combined with the precedence feature:
`-f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio`.
1273 You can merge the video and audio of multiple formats into a single file using
`-f <format1>+<format2>+...` (requires ffmpeg installed), for example
`-f bestvideo+bestaudio` will download the best video-only format, the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg.
1275 **Deprecation warning**: Since the *below* described behavior is complex and counter-intuitive, this will be removed and multistreams will be enabled by default in the future. A new operator will be instead added to limit formats to single audio/video
1277 Unless
`--video-multistreams` is used, all formats with a video stream except the first one are ignored. Similarly, unless
`--audio-multistreams` is used, all formats with an audio stream except the first one are ignored. For example,
`-f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --video-multistreams --audio-multistreams` will download and merge all
3 given formats. The resulting file will have
2 video streams and
2 audio streams. But
`-f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --no-video-multistreams` will download and merge only
`bestvideo` and
`bestaudio`.
`best` is ignored since another format containing a video stream (
`bestvideo`) has already been selected. The order of the formats is therefore important.
`-f best+bestaudio --no-audio-multistreams` will download and merge both formats while
`-f bestaudio+best --no-audio-multistreams` will ignore
`best` and download only
`bestaudio`.
1279 ## Filtering Formats
1281 You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in
`-f "best[height=720]"` (or
`-f "[filesize>10M]"`).
1283 The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons
`<`,
`<=`,
`>`,
`>=`,
`=` (equals),
`!=` (not equals):
1285 - `filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
1286 - `width`: Width of the video, if known
1287 - `height`: Height of the video, if known
1288 - `tbr`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1289 - `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1290 - `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1291 - `asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1294 Also filtering work for comparisons
`=` (equals),
`^=` (starts with),
`$=` (ends with),
`*=` (contains) and following string meta fields:
1296 - `ext`: File extension
1297 - `acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
1298 - `vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
1299 - `container`: Name of the container format
1300 - `protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (
`http`,
`https`,
`rtsp`,
`rtmp`,
`rtmpe`,
`mms`,
`f4m`,
`ism`,
`http_dash_segments`,
`m3u8`, or
`m3u8_native`)
1301 - `format_id`: A short description of the format
1302 - `language`: Language code
1304 Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation
`!` in order to produce an opposite comparison, e.g.
`!*=` (does not contain).
1306 Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, i.e. the metadata offered by the website. Any other field made available by the extractor can also be used for filtering.
1308 Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (
`?`) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so
`-f "[height<=?720][tbr>500]"` selects up to
720p videos (or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least
500 KBit/s. You can also use the filters with
`all` to download all formats that satisfy the filter. For example,
`-f "all[vcodec=none]"` selects all audio-only formats.
1310 Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than
480 you can use
`-f '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'`.
1314 You can change the criteria for being considered the
`best` by using
`-S` (
`--format-sort`). The general format for this is
`--format-sort field1,field2...`.
1316 The available fields are:
1318 - `hasvid`: Gives priority to formats that has a video stream
1319 - `hasaud`: Gives priority to formats that has a audio stream
1320 - `ie_pref`: The format preference as given by the extractor
1321 - `lang`: Language preference as given by the extractor
1322 - `quality`: The quality of the format as given by the extractor
1323 - `source`: Preference of the source as given by the extractor
1324 - `proto`: Protocol used for download (
`https`/
`ftps` >
`http`/
`ftp` >
`m3u8_native`/
`m3u8` >
`http_dash_segments`>
`websocket_frag` > other >
`mms`/
`rtsp` > unknown >
`f4f`/
`f4m`)
1325 - `vcodec`: Video Codec (
`av01` >
`vp9.2` >
`vp9` >
`h265` >
`h264` >
`vp8` >
`h263` >
`theora` > other > unknown)
1326 - `acodec`: Audio Codec (
`opus` >
`vorbis` >
`aac` >
`mp4a` >
`mp3` >
`eac3` >
`ac3` >
`dts` > other > unknown)
1327 - `codec`: Equivalent to
`vcodec,acodec`
1328 - `vext`: Video Extension (
`mp4` >
`webm` >
`flv` > other > unknown). If
`--prefer-free-formats` is used,
`webm` is prefered.
1329 - `aext`: Audio Extension (
`m4a` >
`aac` >
`mp3` >
`ogg` >
`opus` >
`webm` > other > unknown). If
`--prefer-free-formats` is used, the order changes to
`opus` >
`ogg` >
`webm` >
`m4a` >
`mp3` >
`aac`.
1330 - `ext`: Equivalent to
`vext,aext`
1331 - `filesize`: Exact filesize, if known in advance
1332 - `fs_approx`: Approximate filesize calculated from the manifests
1333 - `size`: Exact filesize if available, otherwise approximate filesize
1334 - `height`: Height of video
1335 - `width`: Width of video
1336 - `res`: Video resolution, calculated as the smallest dimension.
1337 - `fps`: Framerate of video
1338 - `hdr`: The dynamic range of the video (
`DV` >
`HDR12` >
`HDR10+` >
`HDR10` >
`HLG` >
`SDR`)
1339 - `tbr`: Total average bitrate in KBit/s
1340 - `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1341 - `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1342 - `br`: Equivalent to using
`tbr,vbr,abr`
1343 - `asr`: Audio sample rate in Hz
1345 **Deprecation warning**: Many of these fields have (currently undocumented) aliases, that may be removed in a future version. It is recommended to use only the documented field names.
1347 All fields, unless specified otherwise, are sorted in descending order. To reverse this, prefix the field with a
`+`. Eg:
`+res` prefers format with the smallest resolution. Additionally, you can suffix a preferred value for the fields, separated by a
`:`. Eg:
`res:720` prefers larger videos, but no larger than
720p and the smallest video if there are no videos less than
720p. For
`codec` and
`ext`, you can provide two preferred values, the first for video and the second for audio. Eg:
`+codec:avc:m4a` (equivalent to
`+vcodec:avc,+acodec:m4a`) sets the video codec preference to
`h264` >
`h265` >
`vp9` >
`vp9.2` >
`av01` >
`vp8` >
`h263` >
`theora` and audio codec preference to
`mp4a` >
`aac` >
`vorbis` >
`opus` >
`mp3` >
`ac3` >
`dts`. You can also make the sorting prefer the nearest values to the provided by using
`~` as the delimiter. Eg:
`filesize~1G` prefers the format with filesize closest to
1 GiB.
1349 The fields
`hasvid` and
`ie_pref` are always given highest priority in sorting, irrespective of the user-defined order. This behaviour can be changed by using
`--format-sort-force`. Apart from these, the default order used is:
`lang,quality,res,fps,hdr:12,codec:vp9.2,size,br,asr,proto,ext,hasaud,source,id`. The extractors may override this default order, but they cannot override the user-provided order.
1351 Note that the default has
`codec:vp9.2`; i.e.
`av1` is not prefered. Similarly, the default for hdr is
`hdr:12`; i.e. dolby vision is not prefered. These choices are made since DV and AV1 formats are not yet fully compatible with most devices. This may be changed in the future as more devices become capable of smoothly playing back these formats.
1353 If your format selector is
`worst`, the last item is selected after sorting. This means it will select the format that is worst in all respects. Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the smallest filesize instead. So it is generally better to use
`-f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps`.
1355 **Tip**: You can use the
`-v -F` to see how the formats have been sorted (worst to best).
1357 ## Format Selection examples
1359 Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
1362 # Download and merge the best video-only format and the best audio-only format,
1363 # or download the best combined format if video-only format is not available
1364 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv+ba/b'
1366 # Download best format that contains video,
1367 # and if it doesn't already have an audio stream, merge it with best audio-only format
1368 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*+ba/b'
1373 # Download the best video-only format and the best audio-only format without merging them
1374 # For this case, an output template should be used since
1375 # by default, bestvideo and bestaudio will have the same file name.
1376 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv,ba' -o '%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s'
1378 # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1379 # and all audio-only formats into one file
1380 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]' --audio-multistreams
1382 # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1383 # and the best 2 audio-only formats into one file
1384 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*+ba+ba.2' --audio-multistreams
1387 # The following examples show the old method (without -S) of format selection
1388 # and how to use -S to achieve a similar but (generally) better result
1390 # Download the worst video available (old method)
1391 $ yt-dlp -f 'wv*+wa/w'
1393 # Download the best video available but with the smallest resolution
1396 # Download the smallest video available
1397 $ yt-dlp -S '+size,+br'
1401 # Download the best mp4 video available, or the best video if no mp4 available
1402 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] / bv*+ba/b'
1404 # Download the best video with the best extension
1405 # (For video, mp4 > webm > flv. For audio, m4a > aac > mp3 ...)
1410 # Download the best video available but no better than 480p,
1411 # or the worst video if there is no video under 480p
1412 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w'
1414 # Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p,
1415 # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1416 $ yt-dlp -S 'height:480'
1418 # Download the best video available with the largest resolution but no better than 480p,
1419 # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1420 # Resolution is determined by using the smallest dimension.
1421 # So this works correctly for vertical videos as well
1422 $ yt-dlp -S 'res:480'
1426 # Download the best video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1427 # or the worst video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
1428 $ yt-dlp -f 'b[filesize<50M] / w'
1430 # Download largest video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1431 # or the smallest video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
1432 $ yt-dlp -f 'b' -S 'filesize:50M'
1434 # Download best video (that also has audio) that is closest in size to 50 MB
1435 $ yt-dlp -f 'b' -S 'filesize~50M'
1439 # Download best video available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol,
1440 # or the best video available via any protocol if there is no such video
1441 $ yt-dlp -f '(bv*+ba/b)[protocol^=http][protocol!*=dash] / (bv*+ba/b)'
1443 # Download best video available via the best protocol
1444 # (https/ftps > http/ftp > m3u8_native > m3u8 > http_dash_segments ...)
1449 # Download the best video with h264 codec, or the best video if there is no such video
1450 $ yt-dlp -f '(bv*+ba/b)[vcodec^=avc1] / (bv*+ba/b)'
1452 # Download the best video with best codec no better than h264,
1453 # or the best video with worst codec if there is no such video
1454 $ yt-dlp -S 'codec:h264'
1456 # Download the best video with worst codec no worse than h264,
1457 # or the best video with best codec if there is no such video
1458 $ yt-dlp -S '+codec:h264'
1462 # More complex examples
1464 # Download the best video no better than 720p preferring framerate greater than 30,
1465 # or the worst video (still preferring framerate greater than 30) if there is no such video
1466 $ yt-dlp -f '((bv*[fps>30]/bv*)[height<=720]/(wv*[fps>30]/wv*)) + ba / (b[fps>30]/b)[height<=720]/(w[fps>30]/w)'
1468 # Download the video with the largest resolution no better than 720p,
1469 # or the video with the smallest resolution available if there is no such video,
1470 # preferring larger framerate for formats with the same resolution
1471 $ yt-dlp -S 'res:720,fps'
1475 # Download the video with smallest resolution no worse than 480p,
1476 # or the video with the largest resolution available if there is no such video,
1477 # preferring better codec and then larger total bitrate for the same resolution
1478 $ yt-dlp -S '+res:480,codec,br'
1481 # MODIFYING METADATA
1483 The metadata obtained by the extractors can be modified by using
`--parse-metadata` and
`--replace-in-metadata`
1485 `--replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE` is used to replace text in any metadata field using
[python regular expression](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax).
[Backreferences](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html?highlight=backreferences#re.sub) can be used in the replace string for advanced use.
1487 The general syntax of
`--parse-metadata FROM:TO` is to give the name of a field or an
[output template](#output-template) to extract data from, and the format to interpret it as, separated by a colon `:`. Either a [python regular expression](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax) with named capture groups or a similar syntax to the [output template](#output-template) (only
`%(field)s` formatting is supported) can be used for
`TO`. The option can be used multiple times to parse and modify various fields.
1489 Note that any field created by this can be used in the [output template](#output-template) and will also affect the media file's metadata added when using
`--add-metadata`.
1491 This option also has a few special uses:
1492 * You can download an additional URL based on the metadata of the currently downloaded video. To do this, set the field
`additional_urls` to the URL that you want to download. Eg:
`--parse-metadata "description:(?P<additional_urls>https?://www\.vimeo\.com/\d+)` will download the first vimeo video found in the description
1493 * You can use this to change the metadata that is embedded in the media file. To do this, set the value of the corresponding field with a
`meta_` prefix. For example, any value you set to
`meta_description` field will be added to the
`description` field in the file. For example, you can use this to set a different "description" and "synopsis". Any value set to the
`meta_` field will overwrite all default values.
1495 For reference, these are the fields yt-dlp adds by default to the file metadata:
1497 Metadata fields|From
1499 `title`|
`track` or
`title`
1500 `date`|
`upload_date`
1501 `description`,
`synopsis`|
`description`
1502 `purl`,
`comment`|
`webpage_url`
1503 `track`|
`track_number`
1504 `artist`|
`artist`,
`creator`,
`uploader` or
`uploader_id`
1507 `album_artist`|
`album_artist`
1508 `disc`|
`disc_number`
1510 `season_number`|
`season_number`
1511 `episode_id`|
`episode` or
`episode_id`
1512 `episode_sort`|
`episode_number`
1513 `language` of each stream|From the format's
`language`
1514 **Note**: The file format may not support some of these fields
1517 ## Modifying metadata examples
1519 Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
1522 # Interpret the title as "Artist - Title"
1523 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata 'title:%(artist)s - %(title)s'
1526 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata 'description:Artist - (?P<artist>.+)'
1528 # Set title as "Series name S01E05"
1529 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata '%(series)s S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d:%(title)s'
1531 # Set "comment" field in video metadata using description instead of webpage_url
1532 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata 'description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)' --add-metadata
1534 # Remove "formats" field from the infojson by setting it to an empty string
1535 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata ':(?P<formats>)' -j
1537 # Replace all spaces and "_" in title and uploader with a `-`
1538 $ yt-dlp --replace-in-metadata 'title,uploader' '[ _]' '-'
1542 # EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS
1544 Some extractors accept additional arguments which can be passed using
`--extractor-args KEY:ARGS`.
`ARGS` is a
`;` (semicolon) separated string of
`ARG=VAL1,VAL2`. Eg:
`--extractor-args "youtube:player-client=android_agegate,web;include_live_dash" --extractor-args "funimation:version=uncut"`
1546 The following extractors use this feature:
1549 * `skip`:
`hls` or
`dash` (or both) to skip download of the respective manifests
1550 * `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are
`web`,
`android`,
`ios`,
`mweb`. These also have
`_music`,
`_embedded`,
`_agegate`, and
`_creator` variants (Eg:
`web_embedded`) (
`mweb` has only
`_agegate`). By default,
`android,web` is used, but the agegate and creator variants are added as required for age-gated videos. Similarly the music variants are added for
`music.youtube.com` urls. You can also use
`all` to use all the clients
1551 * `player_skip`: Skip some network requests that are generally needed for robust extraction. One or more of
`configs` (skip client configs),
`webpage` (skip initial webpage),
`js` (skip js player). While these options can help reduce the number of requests needed or avoid some rate-limiting, they could cause some issues. See
[#860](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/860) for more details
1552 * `include_live_dash`: Include live dash formats (These formats don't download properly)
1553 * `comment_sort`:
`top` or
`new` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
1554 * `max_comments`: Maximum amount of comments to download (default all)
1555 * `max_comment_depth`: Maximum depth for nested comments. YouTube supports depths
1 or
2 (default)
1557 #### youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
1558 * `skip`: One or more of
`webpage` (skip initial webpage download),
`authcheck` (allow the download of playlists requiring authentication when no initial webpage is downloaded. This may cause unwanted behavior, see
[#1122](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/1122) for more details)
1561 * `language`: Languages to extract. Eg:
`funimation:language=english,japanese`
1562 * `version`: The video version to extract -
`uncut` or
`simulcast`
1565 * `language`: Languages to extract. Eg:
`crunchyroll:language=jaJp`
1566 * `hardsub`: Which hard-sub versions to extract. Eg:
`crunchyroll:hardsub=None,enUS`
1569 * `video_types`: Types of videos to download - one or more of
`episodes`,
`movies`,
`clips`,
`trailers`
1571 NOTE: These options may be changed/removed in the future without concern for backward compatibility
1576 Plugins are loaded from
`<root-dir>/ytdlp_plugins/<type>/__init__.py`; where
`<root-dir>` is the directory of the binary (
`<root-dir>/yt-dlp`), or the root directory of the module if you are running directly from source-code (
`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py`). Plugins are currently not supported for the
`pip` version
1578 Plugins can be of
`<type>`s
`extractor` or
`postprocessor`. Extractor plugins do not need to be enabled from the CLI and are automatically invoked when the input URL is suitable for it. Postprocessor plugins can be invoked using
`--use-postprocessor NAME`.
1580 See [ytdlp_plugins](ytdlp_plugins) for example plugins.
1582 Note that **all** plugins are imported even if not invoked, and that **there are no checks** performed on plugin code. Use plugins at your own risk and only if you trust the code
1584 If you are a plugin author, add
[ytdlp-plugins](https://github.com/topics/ytdlp-plugins) as a topic to your repository for discoverability
1590 yt-dlp makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language.
1592 Your program should avoid parsing the normal stdout since they may change in future versions. Instead they should use options such as
`-J`,
`--print`,
`--progress-template`,
`--exec` etc to create console output that you can reliably reproduce and parse.
1594 From a Python program, you can embed yt-dlp in a more powerful fashion, like this:
1597 from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
1600 with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1601 ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
1604 Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [
`yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py`](yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py#L154-L452).
1606 Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), converts the video to an mp3 file, implements a custom postprocessor and prints the final info_dict as json:
1614 def debug(self, msg):
1615 # For compatability with youtube-dl, both debug and info are passed into debug
1616 # You can distinguish them by the prefix '[debug] '
1617 if msg.startswith('[debug] '):
1622 def info(self, msg):
1625 def warning(self, msg):
1628 def error(self, msg):
1632 class MyCustomPP(yt_dlp.postprocessor.PostProcessor):
1633 def run(self, info):
1634 self.to_screen('Doing stuff')
1639 if d['status'] == 'finished':
1640 print('Done downloading, now converting ...')
1644 'format': 'bestaudio/best',
1645 'postprocessors': [{
1646 'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
1647 'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
1648 'preferredquality': '192',
1650 'logger': MyLogger(),
1651 'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
1655 # Add custom headers
1656 yt_dlp.utils.std_headers.update({'Referer': 'https://www.google.com'})
1658 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1659 ydl.add_post_processor(MyCustomPP())
1660 info = ydl.extract_info('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc')
1661 print(json.dumps(ydl.sanitize_info(info)))
1664 See the public functions in [
`yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py`](yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py) for other available functions. Eg:
`ydl.download`,
`ydl.download_with_info_file`
1666 **Tip**: If you are porting your code from youtube-dl to yt-dlp, one important point to look out for is that we do not guarantee the return value of
`YoutubeDL.extract_info` to be json serializable, or even be a dictionary. It will be dictionary-like, but if you want to ensure it is a serializable dictionary, pass it through
`YoutubeDL.sanitize_info` as shown in the example above
1669 # DEPRECATED OPTIONS
1671 These are all the deprecated options and the current alternative to achieve the same effect
1673 #### Redundant options
1674 While these options are redundant, they are still expected to be used due to their ease of use
1676 --get-description --print description
1677 --get-duration --print duration_string
1678 --get-filename --print filename
1679 --get-format --print format
1681 --get-thumbnail --print thumbnail
1682 -e, --get-title --print title
1683 -g, --get-url --print urls
1684 -j, --dump-json --print "%()j"
1685 --match-title REGEX --match-filter "title ~= (?i)REGEX"
1686 --reject-title REGEX --match-filter "title !~= (?i)REGEX"
1687 --min-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count >=? COUNT"
1688 --max-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count <=? COUNT"
1691 #### Not recommended
1692 While these options still work, their use is not recommended since there are other alternatives to achieve the same
1694 --all-formats -f all
1695 --all-subs --sub-langs all --write-subs
1696 --print-json -j --no-simulate
1697 --autonumber-size NUMBER Use string formatting. Eg: %(autonumber)
03d
1698 --autonumber-start NUMBER Use internal field formatting like %(autonumber+NUMBER)s
1699 --id -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1700 --metadata-from-title FORMAT --parse-metadata "%(title)s:FORMAT"
1701 --hls-prefer-native --downloader "m3u8:native"
1702 --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --downloader "m3u8:ffmpeg"
1703 --list-formats-old --compat-options list-formats (Alias: --no-list-formats-as-table)
1704 --list-formats-as-table --compat-options -list-formats [Default] (Alias: --no-list-formats-old)
1705 --youtube-skip-dash-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=dash" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-dash-manifest)
1706 --youtube-skip-hls-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=hls" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest)
1707 --youtube-include-dash-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest)
1708 --youtube-include-hls-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest)
1711 #### Developer options
1712 These options are not intended to be used by the end-user
1714 --test Download only part of video for testing extractors
1715 --youtube-print-sig-code For testing youtube signatures
1716 --allow-unplayable-formats List unplayable formats also
1717 --no-allow-unplayable-formats Default
1721 These are aliases that are no longer documented for various reasons
1723 --avconv-location --ffmpeg-location
1724 --cn-verification-proxy URL --geo-verification-proxy URL
1725 --dump-headers --print-traffic
1726 --dump-intermediate-pages --dump-pages
1727 --force-write-download-archive --force-write-archive
1728 --load-info --load-info-json
1729 --no-split-tracks --no-split-chapters
1730 --no-write-srt --no-write-subs
1731 --prefer-unsecure --prefer-insecure
1732 --rate-limit RATE --limit-rate RATE
1733 --split-tracks --split-chapters
1734 --srt-lang LANGS --sub-langs LANGS
1735 --trim-file-names LENGTH --trim-filenames LENGTH
1736 --write-srt --write-subs
1737 --yes-overwrites --force-overwrites
1739 #### Sponskrub Options
1740 Support for
[SponSkrub](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) has been deprecated in favor of
`--sponsorblock`
1742 --sponskrub --sponsorblock-mark all
1743 --no-sponskrub --no-sponsorblock
1744 --sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove all
1745 --no-sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove -all
1746 --sponskrub-force Not applicable
1747 --no-sponskrub-force Not applicable
1748 --sponskrub-location Not applicable
1749 --sponskrub-args Not applicable
1751 #### No longer supported
1752 These options may no longer work as intended
1754 --prefer-avconv avconv is not officially supported by yt-dlp (Alias: --no-prefer-ffmpeg)
1755 --prefer-ffmpeg Default (Alias: --no-prefer-avconv)
1756 -C, --call-home Not implemented
1757 --no-call-home Default
1758 --include-ads No longer supported
1759 --no-include-ads Default
1760 --write-annotations No supported site has annotations now
1761 --no-write-annotations Default
1764 These options were deprecated since
2014 and have now been entirely removed
1766 -A, --auto-number -o "%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1767 -t, --title -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1768 -l, --literal -o accepts literal names
1771 See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp) for instructions on [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue) and [Contributing code to the project](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
1774 For FAQ see the
[youtube-dl README](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#faq)
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