11 from .compat
import compat_expanduser
12 from .cookies
import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS
, SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS
13 from .downloader
.external
import list_external_downloaders
14 from .postprocessor
import (
17 FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP
,
18 FFmpegThumbnailsConvertorPP
,
22 from .postprocessor
.modify_chapters
import DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE
23 from .update
import detect_variant
, is_non_updateable
35 from .version
import __version__
38 def parseOpts(overrideArguments
=None, ignore_config_files
='if_override'):
39 root
= Config(create_parser())
40 if ignore_config_files
== 'if_override':
41 ignore_config_files
= overrideArguments
is not None
43 def _readUserConf(package_name
, default
=[]):
45 xdg_config_home
= os
.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME') or compat_expanduser('~/.config')
46 userConfFile
= os
.path
.join(xdg_config_home
, package_name
, 'config')
47 if not os
.path
.isfile(userConfFile
):
48 userConfFile
= os
.path
.join(xdg_config_home
, '%s.conf' % package_name
)
49 userConf
= Config
.read_file(userConfFile
, default
=None)
50 if userConf
is not None:
51 return userConf
, userConfFile
54 appdata_dir
= os
.getenv('appdata')
56 userConfFile
= os
.path
.join(appdata_dir
, package_name
, 'config')
57 userConf
= Config
.read_file(userConfFile
, default
=None)
59 userConfFile
+= '.txt'
60 userConf
= Config
.read_file(userConfFile
, default
=None)
61 if userConf
is not None:
62 return userConf
, userConfFile
65 userConfFile
= os
.path
.join(compat_expanduser('~'), '%s.conf' % package_name
)
66 userConf
= Config
.read_file(userConfFile
, default
=None)
68 userConfFile
+= '.txt'
69 userConf
= Config
.read_file(userConfFile
, default
=None)
70 if userConf
is not None:
71 return userConf
, userConfFile
75 def add_config(label
, path
, user
=False):
76 """ Adds config and returns whether to continue """
77 if root
.parse_known_args()[0].ignoreconfig
:
79 # Multiple package names can be given here
80 # E.g. ('yt-dlp', 'youtube-dlc', 'youtube-dl') will look for
81 # the configuration file of any of these three packages
82 for package
in ('yt-dlp',):
84 args
, current_path
= _readUserConf(package
, default
=None)
86 current_path
= os
.path
.join(path
, '%s.conf' % package
)
87 args
= Config
.read_file(current_path
, default
=None)
89 root
.append_config(args
, current_path
, label
=label
)
94 yield not ignore_config_files
95 yield add_config('Portable', get_executable_path())
96 yield add_config('Home', expand_path(root
.parse_known_args()[0].paths
.get('home', '')).strip())
97 yield add_config('User', None, user
=True)
98 yield add_config('System', '/etc')
100 opts
= optparse
.Values({'verbose': True, 'print_help': False}
)
103 if overrideArguments
:
104 root
.append_config(overrideArguments
, label
='Override')
106 root
.append_config(sys
.argv
[1:], label
='Command-line')
107 loaded_all_configs
= all(load_configs())
108 except ValueError as err
:
109 raise root
.parser
.error(err
)
111 if loaded_all_configs
:
112 # If ignoreconfig is found inside the system configuration file,
113 # the user configuration is removed
114 if root
.parse_known_args()[0].ignoreconfig
:
115 user_conf
= next((i
for i
, conf
in enumerate(root
.configs
) if conf
.label
== 'User'), None)
116 if user_conf
is not None:
117 root
.configs
.pop(user_conf
)
120 root
.configs
[0].load_configs() # Resolve any aliases using --config-location
121 except ValueError as err
:
122 raise root
.parser
.error(err
)
124 opts
, args
= root
.parse_args()
125 except optparse
.OptParseError
:
126 with contextlib
.suppress(optparse
.OptParseError
):
127 opts
, _
= root
.parse_known_args(strict
=False)
129 except (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt):
133 verbose
= opts
.verbose
and f
'\n{root}'.replace('\n| ', '\n[debug] ')[1:]
135 write_string(f
'{verbose}\n')
139 root
.parser
.print_help()
142 return root
.parser
, opts
, args
145 class _YoutubeDLHelpFormatter(optparse
.IndentedHelpFormatter
):
147 # No need to wrap help messages if we're on a wide console
148 max_width
= shutil
.get_terminal_size().columns
or 80
149 # The % is chosen to get a pretty output in README.md
150 super().__init
__(width
=max_width
, max_help_position
=int(0.45 * max_width
))
153 def format_option_strings(option
):
154 """ ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR """
155 opts
= join_nonempty(
156 option
._short
_opts
and option
._short
_opts
[0],
157 option
._long
_opts
and option
._long
_opts
[0],
159 if option
.takes_value():
160 opts
+= f
' {option.metavar}'
164 class _YoutubeDLOptionParser(optparse
.OptionParser
):
165 # optparse is deprecated since python 3.2. So assume a stable interface even for private methods
166 ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT
= 100
170 prog
='yt-dlp' if detect_variant() == 'source' else None,
172 usage
='%prog [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]',
173 epilog
='See full documentation at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme',
174 formatter
=_YoutubeDLHelpFormatter(),
175 conflict_handler
='resolve',
178 _UNKNOWN_OPTION
= (optparse
.BadOptionError
, optparse
.AmbiguousOptionError
)
179 _BAD_OPTION
= optparse
.OptionValueError
181 def parse_known_args(self
, args
=None, values
=None, strict
=True):
182 """Same as parse_args, but ignore unknown switches. Similar to argparse.parse_known_args"""
183 self
.rargs
, self
.largs
= self
._get
_args
(args
), []
184 self
.values
= values
or self
.get_default_values()
191 elif arg
.startswith('--'):
192 self
._process
_long
_opt
(self
.rargs
, self
.values
)
193 elif arg
.startswith('-') and arg
!= '-':
194 self
._process
_short
_opts
(self
.rargs
, self
.values
)
195 elif self
.allow_interspersed_args
:
196 self
.largs
.append(self
.rargs
.pop(0))
199 except optparse
.OptParseError
as err
:
200 if isinstance(err
, self
._UNKNOWN
_OPTION
):
201 self
.largs
.append(err
.opt_str
)
203 if isinstance(err
, self
._BAD
_OPTION
):
206 return self
.check_values(self
.values
, self
.largs
)
208 def error(self
, msg
):
209 msg
= f
'{self.get_prog_name()}: error: {str(msg).strip()}\n'
210 raise optparse
.OptParseError(f
'{self.get_usage()}\n{msg}' if self
.usage
else msg
)
212 def _get_args(self
, args
):
213 return sys
.argv
[1:] if args
is None else list(args
)
215 def _match_long_opt(self
, opt
):
216 """Improve ambiguous argument resolution by comparing option objects instead of argument strings"""
218 return super()._match
_long
_opt
(opt
)
219 except optparse
.AmbiguousOptionError
as e
:
220 if len({self._long_opt[p] for p in e.possibilities}
) == 1:
221 return e
.possibilities
[0]
226 def _list_from_options_callback(option
, opt_str
, value
, parser
, append
=True, delim
=',', process
=str.strip
):
227 # append can be True, False or -1 (prepend)
228 current
= list(getattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
)) if append
else []
229 value
= list(filter(None, [process(value
)] if delim
is None else map(process
, value
.split(delim
))))
231 parser
.values
, option
.dest
,
232 current
+ value
if append
is True else value
+ current
)
234 def _set_from_options_callback(
235 option
, opt_str
, value
, parser
, delim
=',', allowed_values
=None, aliases
={},
236 process
=lambda x
: x
.lower().strip()):
237 current
= set(getattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
))
238 values
= [process(value
)] if delim
is None else list(map(process
, value
.split(delim
)[::-1]))
240 actual_val
= val
= values
.pop()
242 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(f
'Invalid {option.metavar} for {opt_str}: {value}')
244 current
.update(allowed_values
)
248 values
.extend(aliases
[val
])
254 current
.update([val
])
255 if allowed_values
is not None and val
not in allowed_values
:
256 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(f
'wrong {option.metavar} for {opt_str}: {actual_val}')
258 setattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
, current
)
260 def _dict_from_options_callback(
261 option
, opt_str
, value
, parser
,
262 allowed_keys
=r
'[\w-]+', delimiter
=':', default_key
=None, process
=None, multiple_keys
=True,
263 process_key
=str.lower
, append
=False):
265 out_dict
= dict(getattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
))
266 multiple_args
= not isinstance(value
, str)
268 allowed_keys
= fr
'({allowed_keys})(,({allowed_keys}))*'
270 fr
'(?i)(?P<keys>{allowed_keys}){delimiter}(?P<val>.*)$',
271 value
[0] if multiple_args
else value
)
273 keys
, val
= mobj
.group('keys').split(','), mobj
.group('val')
275 val
= [val
, *value
[1:]]
276 elif default_key
is not None:
277 keys
, val
= [default_key
], value
279 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(
280 f
'wrong {opt_str} formatting; it should be {option.metavar}, not "{value}"')
282 keys
= map(process_key
, keys
) if process_key
else keys
283 val
= process(val
) if process
else val
284 except Exception as err
:
285 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(f
'wrong {opt_str} formatting; {err}')
287 out_dict
[key
] = out_dict
.get(key
, []) + [val
] if append
else val
288 setattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
, out_dict
)
290 parser
= _YoutubeDLOptionParser()
291 alias_group
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Aliases')
292 Formatter
= string
.Formatter()
294 def _create_alias(option
, opt_str
, value
, parser
):
295 aliases
, opts
= value
297 nargs
= len({i
if f
== '' else f
298 for i
, (_
, f
, _
, _
) in enumerate(Formatter
.parse(opts
)) if f
is not None})
299 opts
.format(*map(str, range(nargs
))) # validate
300 except Exception as err
:
301 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(f
'wrong {opt_str} OPTIONS formatting; {err}')
302 if alias_group
not in parser
.option_groups
:
303 parser
.add_option_group(alias_group
)
305 aliases
= (x
if x
.startswith('-') else f
'--{x}' for x
in map(str.strip
, aliases
.split(',')))
307 alias_group
.add_option(
308 *aliases
, help=opts
, nargs
=nargs
, type='str' if nargs
else None,
309 dest
='_triggered_aliases', default
=collections
.defaultdict(int),
310 metavar
=' '.join(f
'ARG{i}' for i
in range(nargs
)), action
='callback',
311 callback
=_alias_callback
, callback_kwargs
={'opts': opts, 'nargs': nargs}
)
312 except Exception as err
:
313 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(f
'wrong {opt_str} formatting; {err}')
315 def _alias_callback(option
, opt_str
, value
, parser
, opts
, nargs
):
316 counter
= getattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
)
317 counter
[opt_str
] += 1
318 if counter
[opt_str
] > parser
.ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT
:
319 raise optparse
.OptionValueError(f
'Alias {opt_str} exceeded invocation limit')
322 assert (nargs
== 0 and value
is None) or len(value
) == nargs
323 parser
.rargs
[:0] = shlex
.split(
324 opts
if value
is None else opts
.format(*map(shlex
.quote
, value
)))
326 general
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'General Options')
328 '-h', '--help', dest
='print_help', action
='store_true',
329 help='Print this help text and exit')
333 help='Print program version and exit')
336 action
='store_true', dest
='update_self',
338 is_non_updateable(), None, 'Check if updates are available. %s',
339 default
='Update this program to the latest version'))
342 action
='store_false', dest
='update_self',
343 help='Do not check for updates (default)')
345 '-i', '--ignore-errors',
346 action
='store_true', dest
='ignoreerrors',
347 help='Ignore download and postprocessing errors. The download will be considered successful even if the postprocessing fails')
349 '--no-abort-on-error',
350 action
='store_const', dest
='ignoreerrors', const
='only_download',
351 help='Continue with next video on download errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in a playlist (default)')
353 '--abort-on-error', '--no-ignore-errors',
354 action
='store_false', dest
='ignoreerrors',
355 help='Abort downloading of further videos if an error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)')
358 action
='store_true', dest
='dump_user_agent', default
=False,
359 help='Display the current user-agent and exit')
362 action
='store_true', dest
='list_extractors', default
=False,
363 help='List all supported extractors and exit')
365 '--extractor-descriptions',
366 action
='store_true', dest
='list_extractor_descriptions', default
=False,
367 help='Output descriptions of all supported extractors and exit')
369 '--force-generic-extractor',
370 action
='store_true', dest
='force_generic_extractor', default
=False,
371 help='Force extraction to use the generic extractor')
374 dest
='default_search', metavar
='PREFIX',
376 'Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. '
377 'E.g. "gvsearch2:python" downloads two videos from google videos for the search term "python". '
378 'Use the value "auto" to let yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). '
379 '"error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, '
380 'but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching'))
382 '--ignore-config', '--no-config',
383 action
='store_true', dest
='ignoreconfig',
385 'Don\'t load any more configuration files except those given by --config-locations. '
386 'For backward compatibility, if this option is found inside the system configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded. '
387 '(Alias: --no-config)'))
389 '--no-config-locations',
390 action
='store_const', dest
='config_locations', const
=[],
392 'Do not load any custom configuration files (default). When given inside a '
393 'configuration file, ignore all previous --config-locations defined in the current file'))
395 '--config-locations',
396 dest
='config_locations', metavar
='PATH', action
='append',
398 'Location of the main configuration file; either the path to the config or its containing directory '
399 '("-" for stdin). Can be used multiple times and inside other configuration files'))
402 action
='store_const', dest
='extract_flat', const
='in_playlist', default
=False,
403 help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them')
405 '--no-flat-playlist',
406 action
='store_false', dest
='extract_flat',
407 help='Extract the videos of a playlist')
410 action
='store_true', dest
='live_from_start',
411 help='Download livestreams from the start. Currently only supported for YouTube (Experimental)')
413 '--no-live-from-start',
414 action
='store_false', dest
='live_from_start',
415 help='Download livestreams from the current time (default)')
418 dest
='wait_for_video', metavar
='MIN[-MAX]', default
=None,
420 'Wait for scheduled streams to become available. '
421 'Pass the minimum number of seconds (or range) to wait between retries'))
423 '--no-wait-for-video',
424 dest
='wait_for_video', action
='store_const', const
=None,
425 help='Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)')
428 action
='store_true', dest
='mark_watched', default
=False,
429 help='Mark videos watched (even with --simulate)')
432 action
='store_false', dest
='mark_watched',
433 help='Do not mark videos watched (default)')
435 '--no-colors', '--no-colours',
436 action
='store_true', dest
='no_color', default
=False,
437 help='Do not emit color codes in output (Alias: --no-colours)')
440 metavar
='OPTS', dest
='compat_opts', default
=set(), type='str',
441 action
='callback', callback
=_set_from_options_callback
,
444 'filename', 'filename-sanitization', 'format-sort', 'abort-on-error', 'format-spec', 'no-playlist-metafiles',
445 'multistreams', 'no-live-chat', 'playlist-index', 'list-formats', 'no-direct-merge',
446 'no-youtube-channel-redirect', 'no-youtube-unavailable-videos', 'no-attach-info-json', 'embed-metadata',
447 'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs', 'no-certifi',
449 'youtube-dl': ['-multistreams', 'all'],
450 'youtube-dlc': ['-no-youtube-channel-redirect', '-no-live-chat', 'all'],
453 'Options that can help keep compatibility with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc '
454 'configurations by reverting some of the changes made in yt-dlp. '
455 'See "Differences in default behavior" for details'))
457 '--alias', metavar
='ALIASES OPTIONS', dest
='_', type='str', nargs
=2,
458 action
='callback', callback
=_create_alias
,
460 'Create aliases for an option string. Unless an alias starts with a dash "-", it is prefixed with "--". '
461 'Arguments are parsed according to the Python string formatting mini-language. '
462 'E.g. --alias get-audio,-X "-S=aext:{0},abr -x --audio-format {0}" creates options '
463 '"--get-audio" and "-X" that takes an argument (ARG0) and expands to '
464 '"-S=aext:ARG0,abr -x --audio-format ARG0". All defined aliases are listed in the --help output. '
465 'Alias options can trigger more aliases; so be careful to avoid defining recursive options. '
466 f
'As a safety measure, each alias may be triggered a maximum of {_YoutubeDLOptionParser.ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT} times. '
467 'This option can be used multiple times'))
469 network
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Network Options')
471 '--proxy', dest
='proxy',
472 default
=None, metavar
='URL',
474 'Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme, '
475 'e.g. socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection'))
478 dest
='socket_timeout', type=float, default
=None, metavar
='SECONDS',
479 help='Time to wait before giving up, in seconds')
482 metavar
='IP', dest
='source_address', default
=None,
483 help='Client-side IP address to bind to',
486 '-4', '--force-ipv4',
487 action
='store_const', const
='0.0.0.0', dest
='source_address',
488 help='Make all connections via IPv4',
491 '-6', '--force-ipv6',
492 action
='store_const', const
='::', dest
='source_address',
493 help='Make all connections via IPv6',
496 geo
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Geo-restriction')
498 '--geo-verification-proxy',
499 dest
='geo_verification_proxy', default
=None, metavar
='URL',
501 'Use this proxy to verify the IP address for some geo-restricted sites. '
502 'The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the option is not present) is used for the actual downloading'))
504 '--cn-verification-proxy',
505 dest
='cn_verification_proxy', default
=None, metavar
='URL',
506 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
509 action
='store_true', dest
='geo_bypass', default
=True,
510 help='Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (default)')
513 action
='store_false', dest
='geo_bypass',
514 help='Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header')
516 '--geo-bypass-country', metavar
='CODE',
517 dest
='geo_bypass_country', default
=None,
518 help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code')
520 '--geo-bypass-ip-block', metavar
='IP_BLOCK',
521 dest
='geo_bypass_ip_block', default
=None,
522 help='Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation')
524 selection
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Video Selection')
525 selection
.add_option(
527 dest
='playliststart', metavar
='NUMBER', default
=1, type=int,
528 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
529 selection
.add_option(
531 dest
='playlistend', metavar
='NUMBER', default
=None, type=int,
532 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
533 selection
.add_option(
534 '-I', '--playlist-items',
535 dest
='playlist_items', metavar
='ITEM_SPEC', default
=None,
537 'Comma separated playlist_index of the videos to download. '
538 'You can specify a range using "[START]:[STOP][:STEP]". For backward compatibility, START-STOP is also supported. '
539 'Use negative indices to count from the right and negative STEP to download in reverse order. '
540 'E.g. "-I 1:3,7,-5::2" used on a playlist of size 15 will download the videos at index 1,2,3,7,11,13,15'))
541 selection
.add_option(
543 dest
='matchtitle', metavar
='REGEX',
544 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
545 selection
.add_option(
547 dest
='rejecttitle', metavar
='REGEX',
548 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
549 selection
.add_option(
551 metavar
='SIZE', dest
='min_filesize', default
=None,
552 help='Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE, e.g. 50k or 44.6M')
553 selection
.add_option(
555 metavar
='SIZE', dest
='max_filesize', default
=None,
556 help='Do not download any videos larger than SIZE, e.g. 50k or 44.6M')
557 selection
.add_option(
559 metavar
='DATE', dest
='date', default
=None,
561 'Download only videos uploaded on this date. The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format '
562 '[now|today|yesterday][-N[day|week|month|year]]. E.g. --date today-2weeks'))
563 selection
.add_option(
565 metavar
='DATE', dest
='datebefore', default
=None,
567 'Download only videos uploaded on or before this date. '
568 'The date formats accepted is the same as --date'))
569 selection
.add_option(
571 metavar
='DATE', dest
='dateafter', default
=None,
573 'Download only videos uploaded on or after this date. '
574 'The date formats accepted is the same as --date'))
575 selection
.add_option(
577 metavar
='COUNT', dest
='min_views', default
=None, type=int,
578 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
579 selection
.add_option(
581 metavar
='COUNT', dest
='max_views', default
=None, type=int,
582 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
583 selection
.add_option(
585 metavar
='FILTER', dest
='match_filter', action
='append',
587 'Generic video filter. Any "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" field can be compared with a '
588 'number or a string using the operators defined in "Filtering Formats". '
589 'You can also simply specify a field to match if the field is present, '
590 'use "!field" to check if the field is not present, and "&" to check multiple conditions. '
591 'Use a "\\" to escape "&" or quotes if needed. If used multiple times, '
592 'the filter matches if atleast one of the conditions are met. E.g. --match-filter '
593 '!is_live --match-filter "like_count>?100 & description~=\'(?i)\\bcats \\& dogs\\b\'" '
594 'matches only videos that are not live OR those that have a like count more than 100 '
595 '(or the like field is not available) and also has a description '
596 'that contains the phrase "cats & dogs" (caseless). '
597 'Use "--match-filter -" to interactively ask whether to download each video'))
598 selection
.add_option(
600 metavar
='FILTER', dest
='match_filter', action
='store_const', const
=None,
601 help='Do not use generic video filter (default)')
602 selection
.add_option(
604 action
='store_true', dest
='noplaylist', default
=False,
605 help='Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist')
606 selection
.add_option(
608 action
='store_false', dest
='noplaylist',
609 help='Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist')
610 selection
.add_option(
612 metavar
='YEARS', dest
='age_limit', default
=None, type=int,
613 help='Download only videos suitable for the given age')
614 selection
.add_option(
615 '--download-archive', metavar
='FILE',
616 dest
='download_archive',
617 help='Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it')
618 selection
.add_option(
619 '--no-download-archive',
620 dest
='download_archive', action
="store_const", const
=None,
621 help='Do not use archive file (default)')
622 selection
.add_option(
624 dest
='max_downloads', metavar
='NUMBER', type=int, default
=None,
625 help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files')
626 selection
.add_option(
627 '--break-on-existing',
628 action
='store_true', dest
='break_on_existing', default
=False,
629 help='Stop the download process when encountering a file that is in the archive')
630 selection
.add_option(
632 action
='store_true', dest
='break_on_reject', default
=False,
633 help='Stop the download process when encountering a file that has been filtered out')
634 selection
.add_option(
636 action
='store_true', dest
='break_per_url', default
=False,
637 help='Make --break-on-existing, --break-on-reject and --max-downloads act only on the current input URL')
638 selection
.add_option(
639 '--no-break-per-input',
640 action
='store_false', dest
='break_per_url',
641 help='--break-on-existing and similar options terminates the entire download queue')
642 selection
.add_option(
643 '--skip-playlist-after-errors', metavar
='N',
644 dest
='skip_playlist_after_errors', default
=None, type=int,
645 help='Number of allowed failures until the rest of the playlist is skipped')
646 selection
.add_option(
648 dest
='include_ads', action
='store_true',
649 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
650 selection
.add_option(
652 dest
='include_ads', action
='store_false',
653 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
655 authentication
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Authentication Options')
656 authentication
.add_option(
658 dest
='username', metavar
='USERNAME',
659 help='Login with this account ID')
660 authentication
.add_option(
662 dest
='password', metavar
='PASSWORD',
663 help='Account password. If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
664 authentication
.add_option(
666 dest
='twofactor', metavar
='TWOFACTOR',
667 help='Two-factor authentication code')
668 authentication
.add_option(
670 action
='store_true', dest
='usenetrc', default
=False,
671 help='Use .netrc authentication data')
672 authentication
.add_option(
674 dest
='netrc_location', metavar
='PATH',
675 help='Location of .netrc authentication data; either the path or its containing directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc')
676 authentication
.add_option(
678 dest
='videopassword', metavar
='PASSWORD',
679 help='Video password (vimeo, youku)')
680 authentication
.add_option(
682 dest
='ap_mso', metavar
='MSO',
683 help='Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for a list of available MSOs')
684 authentication
.add_option(
686 dest
='ap_username', metavar
='USERNAME',
687 help='Multiple-system operator account login')
688 authentication
.add_option(
690 dest
='ap_password', metavar
='PASSWORD',
691 help='Multiple-system operator account password. If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
692 authentication
.add_option(
694 action
='store_true', dest
='ap_list_mso', default
=False,
695 help='List all supported multiple-system operators')
696 authentication
.add_option(
697 '--client-certificate',
698 dest
='client_certificate', metavar
='CERTFILE',
699 help='Path to client certificate file in PEM format. May include the private key')
700 authentication
.add_option(
701 '--client-certificate-key',
702 dest
='client_certificate_key', metavar
='KEYFILE',
703 help='Path to private key file for client certificate')
704 authentication
.add_option(
705 '--client-certificate-password',
706 dest
='client_certificate_password', metavar
='PASSWORD',
707 help='Password for client certificate private key, if encrypted. '
708 'If not provided, and the key is encrypted, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
710 video_format
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Video Format Options')
711 video_format
.add_option(
713 action
='store', dest
='format', metavar
='FORMAT', default
=None,
714 help='Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION" for more details')
715 video_format
.add_option(
716 '-S', '--format-sort', metavar
='SORTORDER',
717 dest
='format_sort', default
=[], type='str', action
='callback',
718 callback
=_list_from_options_callback
, callback_kwargs
={'append': -1}
,
719 help='Sort the formats by the fields given, see "Sorting Formats" for more details')
720 video_format
.add_option(
721 '--format-sort-force', '--S-force',
722 action
='store_true', dest
='format_sort_force', metavar
='FORMAT', default
=False,
724 'Force user specified sort order to have precedence over all fields, '
725 'see "Sorting Formats" for more details (Alias: --S-force)'))
726 video_format
.add_option(
727 '--no-format-sort-force',
728 action
='store_false', dest
='format_sort_force', metavar
='FORMAT', default
=False,
729 help='Some fields have precedence over the user specified sort order (default)')
730 video_format
.add_option(
731 '--video-multistreams',
732 action
='store_true', dest
='allow_multiple_video_streams', default
=None,
733 help='Allow multiple video streams to be merged into a single file')
734 video_format
.add_option(
735 '--no-video-multistreams',
736 action
='store_false', dest
='allow_multiple_video_streams',
737 help='Only one video stream is downloaded for each output file (default)')
738 video_format
.add_option(
739 '--audio-multistreams',
740 action
='store_true', dest
='allow_multiple_audio_streams', default
=None,
741 help='Allow multiple audio streams to be merged into a single file')
742 video_format
.add_option(
743 '--no-audio-multistreams',
744 action
='store_false', dest
='allow_multiple_audio_streams',
745 help='Only one audio stream is downloaded for each output file (default)')
746 video_format
.add_option(
748 action
='store_const', dest
='format', const
='all',
749 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
750 video_format
.add_option(
751 '--prefer-free-formats',
752 action
='store_true', dest
='prefer_free_formats', default
=False,
754 'Prefer video formats with free containers over non-free ones of same quality. '
755 'Use with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free containers irrespective of quality'))
756 video_format
.add_option(
757 '--no-prefer-free-formats',
758 action
='store_false', dest
='prefer_free_formats', default
=False,
759 help="Don't give any special preference to free containers (default)")
760 video_format
.add_option(
762 action
='store_const', const
='selected', dest
='check_formats', default
=None,
763 help='Make sure formats are selected only from those that are actually downloadable')
764 video_format
.add_option(
765 '--check-all-formats',
766 action
='store_true', dest
='check_formats',
767 help='Check all formats for whether they are actually downloadable')
768 video_format
.add_option(
769 '--no-check-formats',
770 action
='store_false', dest
='check_formats',
771 help='Do not check that the formats are actually downloadable')
772 video_format
.add_option(
773 '-F', '--list-formats',
774 action
='store_true', dest
='listformats',
775 help='List available formats of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used')
776 video_format
.add_option(
777 '--list-formats-as-table',
778 action
='store_true', dest
='listformats_table', default
=True,
779 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
780 video_format
.add_option(
781 '--list-formats-old', '--no-list-formats-as-table',
782 action
='store_false', dest
='listformats_table',
783 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
784 video_format
.add_option(
785 '--merge-output-format',
786 action
='store', dest
='merge_output_format', metavar
='FORMAT', default
=None,
788 'Containers that may be used when merging formats, separated by "/", e.g. "mp4/mkv". '
789 'Ignored if no merge is required. '
790 f
'(currently supported: {", ".join(sorted(FFmpegMergerPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))})'))
791 video_format
.add_option(
792 '--allow-unplayable-formats',
793 action
='store_true', dest
='allow_unplayable_formats', default
=False,
794 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
795 video_format
.add_option(
796 '--no-allow-unplayable-formats',
797 action
='store_false', dest
='allow_unplayable_formats',
798 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
800 subtitles
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Subtitle Options')
801 subtitles
.add_option(
802 '--write-subs', '--write-srt',
803 action
='store_true', dest
='writesubtitles', default
=False,
804 help='Write subtitle file')
805 subtitles
.add_option(
806 '--no-write-subs', '--no-write-srt',
807 action
='store_false', dest
='writesubtitles',
808 help='Do not write subtitle file (default)')
809 subtitles
.add_option(
810 '--write-auto-subs', '--write-automatic-subs',
811 action
='store_true', dest
='writeautomaticsub', default
=False,
812 help='Write automatically generated subtitle file (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)')
813 subtitles
.add_option(
814 '--no-write-auto-subs', '--no-write-automatic-subs',
815 action
='store_false', dest
='writeautomaticsub', default
=False,
816 help='Do not write auto-generated subtitles (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)')
817 subtitles
.add_option(
819 action
='store_true', dest
='allsubtitles', default
=False,
820 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
821 subtitles
.add_option(
823 action
='store_true', dest
='listsubtitles', default
=False,
824 help='List available subtitles of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used')
825 subtitles
.add_option(
827 action
='store', dest
='subtitlesformat', metavar
='FORMAT', default
='best',
828 help='Subtitle format; accepts formats preference, e.g. "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
829 subtitles
.add_option(
830 '--sub-langs', '--srt-langs',
831 action
='callback', dest
='subtitleslangs', metavar
='LANGS', type='str',
832 default
=[], callback
=_list_from_options_callback
,
834 'Languages of the subtitles to download (can be regex) or "all" separated by commas, e.g. --sub-langs "en.*,ja". '
835 'You can prefix the language code with a "-" to exclude it from the requested languages, e.g. --sub-langs all,-live_chat. '
836 'Use --list-subs for a list of available language tags'))
838 downloader
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Download Options')
839 downloader
.add_option(
840 '-N', '--concurrent-fragments',
841 dest
='concurrent_fragment_downloads', metavar
='N', default
=1, type=int,
842 help='Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be downloaded concurrently (default is %default)')
843 downloader
.add_option(
844 '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
845 dest
='ratelimit', metavar
='RATE',
846 help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second, e.g. 50K or 4.2M')
847 downloader
.add_option(
849 dest
='throttledratelimit', metavar
='RATE',
850 help='Minimum download rate in bytes per second below which throttling is assumed and the video data is re-extracted, e.g. 100K')
851 downloader
.add_option(
853 dest
='retries', metavar
='RETRIES', default
=10,
854 help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite"')
855 downloader
.add_option(
856 '--file-access-retries',
857 dest
='file_access_retries', metavar
='RETRIES', default
=3,
858 help='Number of times to retry on file access error (default is %default), or "infinite"')
859 downloader
.add_option(
860 '--fragment-retries',
861 dest
='fragment_retries', metavar
='RETRIES', default
=10,
862 help='Number of retries for a fragment (default is %default), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and ISM)')
863 downloader
.add_option(
865 dest
='retry_sleep', metavar
='[TYPE:]EXPR', default
={}, type='str',
866 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
868 'allowed_keys': 'http|fragment|file_access|extractor',
869 'default_key': 'http',
871 'Time to sleep between retries in seconds (optionally) prefixed by the type of retry '
872 '(http (default), fragment, file_access, extractor) to apply the sleep to. '
873 'EXPR can be a number, linear=START[:END[:STEP=1]] or exp=START[:END[:BASE=2]]. '
874 'This option can be used multiple times to set the sleep for the different retry types, '
875 'e.g. --retry-sleep linear=1::2 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20'))
876 downloader
.add_option(
877 '--skip-unavailable-fragments', '--no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment',
878 action
='store_true', dest
='skip_unavailable_fragments', default
=True,
879 help='Skip unavailable fragments for DASH, hlsnative and ISM downloads (default) (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)')
880 downloader
.add_option(
881 '--abort-on-unavailable-fragment', '--no-skip-unavailable-fragments',
882 action
='store_false', dest
='skip_unavailable_fragments',
883 help='Abort download if a fragment is unavailable (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)')
884 downloader
.add_option(
886 action
='store_true', dest
='keep_fragments', default
=False,
887 help='Keep downloaded fragments on disk after downloading is finished')
888 downloader
.add_option(
889 '--no-keep-fragments',
890 action
='store_false', dest
='keep_fragments',
891 help='Delete downloaded fragments after downloading is finished (default)')
892 downloader
.add_option(
894 dest
='buffersize', metavar
='SIZE', default
='1024',
895 help='Size of download buffer, e.g. 1024 or 16K (default is %default)')
896 downloader
.add_option(
898 action
='store_false', dest
='noresizebuffer',
899 help='The buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of --buffer-size (default)')
900 downloader
.add_option(
901 '--no-resize-buffer',
902 action
='store_true', dest
='noresizebuffer', default
=False,
903 help='Do not automatically adjust the buffer size')
904 downloader
.add_option(
906 dest
='http_chunk_size', metavar
='SIZE', default
=None,
908 'Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading, e.g. 10485760 or 10M (default is disabled). '
909 'May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver (experimental)'))
910 downloader
.add_option(
912 action
='store_true', dest
='test', default
=False,
913 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
914 downloader
.add_option(
915 '--playlist-reverse',
916 action
='store_true', dest
='playlist_reverse',
917 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
918 downloader
.add_option(
919 '--no-playlist-reverse',
920 action
='store_false', dest
='playlist_reverse',
921 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
922 downloader
.add_option(
924 action
='store_true', dest
='playlist_random',
925 help='Download playlist videos in random order')
926 downloader
.add_option(
928 action
='store_true', dest
='lazy_playlist',
929 help='Process entries in the playlist as they are received. This disables n_entries, --playlist-random and --playlist-reverse')
930 downloader
.add_option(
931 '--no-lazy-playlist',
932 action
='store_false', dest
='lazy_playlist',
933 help='Process videos in the playlist only after the entire playlist is parsed (default)')
934 downloader
.add_option(
935 '--xattr-set-filesize',
936 dest
='xattr_set_filesize', action
='store_true',
937 help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size')
938 downloader
.add_option(
939 '--hls-prefer-native',
940 dest
='hls_prefer_native', action
='store_true', default
=None,
941 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
942 downloader
.add_option(
943 '--hls-prefer-ffmpeg',
944 dest
='hls_prefer_native', action
='store_false', default
=None,
945 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
946 downloader
.add_option(
948 dest
='hls_use_mpegts', action
='store_true', default
=None,
950 'Use the mpegts container for HLS videos; '
951 'allowing some players to play the video while downloading, '
952 'and reducing the chance of file corruption if download is interrupted. '
953 'This is enabled by default for live streams'))
954 downloader
.add_option(
955 '--no-hls-use-mpegts',
956 dest
='hls_use_mpegts', action
='store_false',
958 'Do not use the mpegts container for HLS videos. '
959 'This is default when not downloading live streams'))
960 downloader
.add_option(
961 '--download-sections',
962 metavar
='REGEX', dest
='download_ranges', action
='append',
964 'Download only chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. '
965 'Time ranges prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place of chapters to download the specified range. '
966 'Needs ffmpeg. This option can be used multiple times to download multiple sections, '
967 'e.g. --download-sections "*10:15-15:00" --download-sections "intro"'))
968 downloader
.add_option(
969 '--downloader', '--external-downloader',
970 dest
='external_downloader', metavar
='[PROTO:]NAME', default
={}, type='str',
971 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
973 'allowed_keys': 'http|ftp|m3u8|dash|rtsp|rtmp|mms',
974 'default_key': 'default',
977 'Name or path of the external downloader to use (optionally) prefixed by '
978 'the protocols (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to use it for. '
979 f
'Currently supports native, {", ".join(sorted(list_external_downloaders()))}. '
980 'You can use this option multiple times to set different downloaders for different protocols. '
981 'E.g. --downloader aria2c --downloader "dash,m3u8:native" will use '
982 'aria2c for http/ftp downloads, and the native downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads '
983 '(Alias: --external-downloader)'))
984 downloader
.add_option(
985 '--downloader-args', '--external-downloader-args',
986 metavar
='NAME:ARGS', dest
='external_downloader_args', default
={}, type='str',
987 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
989 'allowed_keys': r
'ffmpeg_[io]\d*|%s' % '|'.join(map(re
.escape
, list_external_downloaders())),
990 'default_key': 'default',
991 'process': shlex
.split
993 'Give these arguments to the external downloader. '
994 'Specify the downloader name and the arguments separated by a colon ":". '
995 'For ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to different positions using the same syntax as --postprocessor-args. '
996 'You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different downloaders '
997 '(Alias: --external-downloader-args)'))
999 workarounds
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Workarounds')
1000 workarounds
.add_option(
1002 dest
='encoding', metavar
='ENCODING',
1003 help='Force the specified encoding (experimental)')
1004 workarounds
.add_option(
1005 '--legacy-server-connect',
1006 action
='store_true', dest
='legacy_server_connect', default
=False,
1007 help='Explicitly allow HTTPS connection to servers that do not support RFC 5746 secure renegotiation')
1008 workarounds
.add_option(
1009 '--no-check-certificates',
1010 action
='store_true', dest
='no_check_certificate', default
=False,
1011 help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation')
1012 workarounds
.add_option(
1013 '--prefer-insecure', '--prefer-unsecure',
1014 action
='store_true', dest
='prefer_insecure',
1015 help='Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video (Currently supported only for YouTube)')
1016 workarounds
.add_option(
1018 metavar
='UA', dest
='user_agent',
1019 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1020 workarounds
.add_option(
1022 metavar
='URL', dest
='referer', default
=None,
1023 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1024 workarounds
.add_option(
1026 metavar
='FIELD:VALUE', dest
='headers', default
={}, type='str',
1027 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1028 callback_kwargs
={'multiple_keys': False}
,
1029 help='Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon ":". You can use this option multiple times',
1031 workarounds
.add_option(
1032 '--bidi-workaround',
1033 dest
='bidi_workaround', action
='store_true',
1034 help='Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH')
1035 workarounds
.add_option(
1036 '--sleep-requests', metavar
='SECONDS',
1037 dest
='sleep_interval_requests', type=float,
1038 help='Number of seconds to sleep between requests during data extraction')
1039 workarounds
.add_option(
1040 '--sleep-interval', '--min-sleep-interval', metavar
='SECONDS',
1041 dest
='sleep_interval', type=float,
1043 'Number of seconds to sleep before each download. '
1044 'This is the minimum time to sleep when used along with --max-sleep-interval '
1045 '(Alias: --min-sleep-interval)'))
1046 workarounds
.add_option(
1047 '--max-sleep-interval', metavar
='SECONDS',
1048 dest
='max_sleep_interval', type=float,
1049 help='Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can only be used along with --min-sleep-interval')
1050 workarounds
.add_option(
1051 '--sleep-subtitles', metavar
='SECONDS',
1052 dest
='sleep_interval_subtitles', default
=0, type=int,
1053 help='Number of seconds to sleep before each subtitle download')
1055 verbosity
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Verbosity and Simulation Options')
1056 verbosity
.add_option(
1058 action
='store_true', dest
='quiet', default
=False,
1059 help='Activate quiet mode. If used with --verbose, print the log to stderr')
1060 verbosity
.add_option(
1062 dest
='no_warnings', action
='store_true', default
=False,
1063 help='Ignore warnings')
1064 verbosity
.add_option(
1066 action
='store_true', dest
='simulate', default
=None,
1067 help='Do not download the video and do not write anything to disk')
1068 verbosity
.add_option(
1070 action
='store_false', dest
='simulate',
1071 help='Download the video even if printing/listing options are used')
1072 verbosity
.add_option(
1073 '--ignore-no-formats-error',
1074 action
='store_true', dest
='ignore_no_formats_error', default
=False,
1076 'Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for extracting metadata '
1077 'even if the videos are not actually available for download (experimental)'))
1078 verbosity
.add_option(
1079 '--no-ignore-no-formats-error',
1080 action
='store_false', dest
='ignore_no_formats_error',
1081 help='Throw error when no downloadable video formats are found (default)')
1082 verbosity
.add_option(
1083 '--skip-download', '--no-download',
1084 action
='store_true', dest
='skip_download', default
=False,
1085 help='Do not download the video but write all related files (Alias: --no-download)')
1086 verbosity
.add_option(
1088 metavar
='[WHEN:]TEMPLATE', dest
='forceprint', default
={}, type='str',
1089 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1091 'allowed_keys': 'video|' + '|'.join(map(re
.escape
, POSTPROCESS_WHEN
)),
1092 'default_key': 'video',
1093 'multiple_keys': False,
1096 'Field name or output template to print to screen, optionally prefixed with when to print it, separated by a ":". '
1097 'Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of --use-postprocessor, and "video" (default). '
1098 'Implies --quiet. Implies --simulate unless --no-simulate or later stages of WHEN are used. '
1099 'This option can be used multiple times'))
1100 verbosity
.add_option(
1102 metavar
='[WHEN:]TEMPLATE FILE', dest
='print_to_file', default
={}, type='str', nargs
=2,
1103 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1105 'allowed_keys': 'video|' + '|'.join(map(re
.escape
, POSTPROCESS_WHEN
)),
1106 'default_key': 'video',
1107 'multiple_keys': False,
1110 'Append given template to the file. The values of WHEN and TEMPLATE are same as that of --print. '
1111 'FILE uses the same syntax as the output template. This option can be used multiple times'))
1112 verbosity
.add_option(
1114 action
='store_true', dest
='geturl', default
=False,
1115 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1116 verbosity
.add_option(
1117 '-e', '--get-title',
1118 action
='store_true', dest
='gettitle', default
=False,
1119 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1120 verbosity
.add_option(
1122 action
='store_true', dest
='getid', default
=False,
1123 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1124 verbosity
.add_option(
1126 action
='store_true', dest
='getthumbnail', default
=False,
1127 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1128 verbosity
.add_option(
1129 '--get-description',
1130 action
='store_true', dest
='getdescription', default
=False,
1131 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1132 verbosity
.add_option(
1134 action
='store_true', dest
='getduration', default
=False,
1135 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1136 verbosity
.add_option(
1138 action
='store_true', dest
='getfilename', default
=False,
1139 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1140 verbosity
.add_option(
1142 action
='store_true', dest
='getformat', default
=False,
1143 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1144 verbosity
.add_option(
1145 '-j', '--dump-json',
1146 action
='store_true', dest
='dumpjson', default
=False,
1147 help='Quiet, but print JSON information for each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description of available keys')
1148 verbosity
.add_option(
1149 '-J', '--dump-single-json',
1150 action
='store_true', dest
='dump_single_json', default
=False,
1152 'Quiet, but print JSON information for each url or infojson passed. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used. '
1153 'If the URL refers to a playlist, the whole playlist information is dumped in a single line'))
1154 verbosity
.add_option(
1156 action
='store_true', dest
='print_json', default
=False,
1157 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1158 verbosity
.add_option(
1159 '--force-write-archive', '--force-write-download-archive', '--force-download-archive',
1160 action
='store_true', dest
='force_write_download_archive', default
=False,
1162 'Force download archive entries to be written as far as no errors occur, '
1163 'even if -s or another simulation option is used (Alias: --force-download-archive)'))
1164 verbosity
.add_option(
1166 action
='store_true', dest
='progress_with_newline', default
=False,
1167 help='Output progress bar as new lines')
1168 verbosity
.add_option(
1170 action
='store_true', dest
='noprogress', default
=None,
1171 help='Do not print progress bar')
1172 verbosity
.add_option(
1174 action
='store_false', dest
='noprogress',
1175 help='Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode')
1176 verbosity
.add_option(
1178 action
='store_true', dest
='consoletitle', default
=False,
1179 help='Display progress in console titlebar')
1180 verbosity
.add_option(
1181 '--progress-template',
1182 metavar
='[TYPES:]TEMPLATE', dest
='progress_template', default
={}, type='str',
1183 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1185 'allowed_keys': '(download|postprocess)(-title)?',
1186 'default_key': 'download'
1188 'Template for progress outputs, optionally prefixed with one of "download:" (default), '
1189 '"download-title:" (the console title), "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:". '
1190 'The video\'s fields are accessible under the "info" key and '
1191 'the progress attributes are accessible under "progress" key. E.g. '
1192 # TODO: Document the fields inside "progress"
1193 '--console-title --progress-template "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"'))
1194 verbosity
.add_option(
1196 action
='store_true', dest
='verbose', default
=False,
1197 help='Print various debugging information')
1198 verbosity
.add_option(
1199 '--dump-pages', '--dump-intermediate-pages',
1200 action
='store_true', dest
='dump_intermediate_pages', default
=False,
1201 help='Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)')
1202 verbosity
.add_option(
1204 action
='store_true', dest
='write_pages', default
=False,
1205 help='Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems')
1206 verbosity
.add_option(
1208 action
='store_true', dest
='load_pages', default
=False,
1209 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1210 verbosity
.add_option(
1211 '--youtube-print-sig-code',
1212 action
='store_true', dest
='youtube_print_sig_code', default
=False,
1213 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1214 verbosity
.add_option(
1215 '--print-traffic', '--dump-headers',
1216 dest
='debug_printtraffic', action
='store_true', default
=False,
1217 help='Display sent and read HTTP traffic')
1218 verbosity
.add_option(
1219 '-C', '--call-home',
1220 dest
='call_home', action
='store_true', default
=False,
1221 # help='Contact the yt-dlp server for debugging')
1222 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1223 verbosity
.add_option(
1225 dest
='call_home', action
='store_false',
1226 # help='Do not contact the yt-dlp server for debugging (default)')
1227 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1229 filesystem
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Filesystem Options')
1230 filesystem
.add_option(
1231 '-a', '--batch-file',
1232 dest
='batchfile', metavar
='FILE',
1234 'File containing URLs to download ("-" for stdin), one URL per line. '
1235 'Lines starting with "#", ";" or "]" are considered as comments and ignored'))
1236 filesystem
.add_option(
1238 dest
='batchfile', action
='store_const', const
=None,
1239 help='Do not read URLs from batch file (default)')
1240 filesystem
.add_option(
1241 '--id', default
=False,
1242 action
='store_true', dest
='useid', help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1243 filesystem
.add_option(
1245 metavar
='[TYPES:]PATH', dest
='paths', default
={}, type='str',
1246 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1248 'allowed_keys': 'home|temp|%s' % '|'.join(map(re
.escape
, OUTTMPL_TYPES
.keys())),
1249 'default_key': 'home'
1251 'The paths where the files should be downloaded. '
1252 'Specify the type of file and the path separated by a colon ":". '
1253 'All the same TYPES as --output are supported. '
1254 'Additionally, you can also provide "home" (default) and "temp" paths. '
1255 'All intermediary files are first downloaded to the temp path and '
1256 'then the final files are moved over to the home path after download is finished. '
1257 'This option is ignored if --output is an absolute path'))
1258 filesystem
.add_option(
1260 metavar
='[TYPES:]TEMPLATE', dest
='outtmpl', default
={}, type='str',
1261 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1263 'allowed_keys': '|'.join(map(re
.escape
, OUTTMPL_TYPES
.keys())),
1264 'default_key': 'default'
1265 }, help='Output filename template; see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details')
1266 filesystem
.add_option(
1267 '--output-na-placeholder',
1268 dest
='outtmpl_na_placeholder', metavar
='TEXT', default
='NA',
1269 help=('Placeholder for unavailable fields in "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" (default: "%default")'))
1270 filesystem
.add_option(
1271 '--autonumber-size',
1272 dest
='autonumber_size', metavar
='NUMBER', type=int,
1273 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1274 filesystem
.add_option(
1275 '--autonumber-start',
1276 dest
='autonumber_start', metavar
='NUMBER', default
=1, type=int,
1277 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1278 filesystem
.add_option(
1279 '--restrict-filenames',
1280 action
='store_true', dest
='restrictfilenames', default
=False,
1281 help='Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames')
1282 filesystem
.add_option(
1283 '--no-restrict-filenames',
1284 action
='store_false', dest
='restrictfilenames',
1285 help='Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in filenames (default)')
1286 filesystem
.add_option(
1287 '--windows-filenames',
1288 action
='store_true', dest
='windowsfilenames', default
=False,
1289 help='Force filenames to be Windows-compatible')
1290 filesystem
.add_option(
1291 '--no-windows-filenames',
1292 action
='store_false', dest
='windowsfilenames',
1293 help='Make filenames Windows-compatible only if using Windows (default)')
1294 filesystem
.add_option(
1295 '--trim-filenames', '--trim-file-names', metavar
='LENGTH',
1296 dest
='trim_file_name', default
=0, type=int,
1297 help='Limit the filename length (excluding extension) to the specified number of characters')
1298 filesystem
.add_option(
1299 '-w', '--no-overwrites',
1300 action
='store_false', dest
='overwrites', default
=None,
1301 help='Do not overwrite any files')
1302 filesystem
.add_option(
1303 '--force-overwrites', '--yes-overwrites',
1304 action
='store_true', dest
='overwrites',
1305 help='Overwrite all video and metadata files. This option includes --no-continue')
1306 filesystem
.add_option(
1307 '--no-force-overwrites',
1308 action
='store_const', dest
='overwrites', const
=None,
1309 help='Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite related files (default)')
1310 filesystem
.add_option(
1312 action
='store_true', dest
='continue_dl', default
=True,
1313 help='Resume partially downloaded files/fragments (default)')
1314 filesystem
.add_option(
1316 action
='store_false', dest
='continue_dl',
1318 'Do not resume partially downloaded fragments. '
1319 'If the file is not fragmented, restart download of the entire file'))
1320 filesystem
.add_option(
1322 action
='store_false', dest
='nopart', default
=False,
1323 help='Use .part files instead of writing directly into output file (default)')
1324 filesystem
.add_option(
1326 action
='store_true', dest
='nopart',
1327 help='Do not use .part files - write directly into output file')
1328 filesystem
.add_option(
1330 action
='store_true', dest
='updatetime', default
=True,
1331 help='Use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time (default)')
1332 filesystem
.add_option(
1334 action
='store_false', dest
='updatetime',
1335 help='Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time')
1336 filesystem
.add_option(
1337 '--write-description',
1338 action
='store_true', dest
='writedescription', default
=False,
1339 help='Write video description to a .description file')
1340 filesystem
.add_option(
1341 '--no-write-description',
1342 action
='store_false', dest
='writedescription',
1343 help='Do not write video description (default)')
1344 filesystem
.add_option(
1345 '--write-info-json',
1346 action
='store_true', dest
='writeinfojson', default
=None,
1347 help='Write video metadata to a .info.json file (this may contain personal information)')
1348 filesystem
.add_option(
1349 '--no-write-info-json',
1350 action
='store_false', dest
='writeinfojson',
1351 help='Do not write video metadata (default)')
1352 filesystem
.add_option(
1353 '--write-annotations',
1354 action
='store_true', dest
='writeannotations', default
=False,
1355 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1356 filesystem
.add_option(
1357 '--no-write-annotations',
1358 action
='store_false', dest
='writeannotations',
1359 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1360 filesystem
.add_option(
1361 '--write-playlist-metafiles',
1362 action
='store_true', dest
='allow_playlist_files', default
=None,
1364 'Write playlist metadata in addition to the video metadata '
1365 'when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc. (default)'))
1366 filesystem
.add_option(
1367 '--no-write-playlist-metafiles',
1368 action
='store_false', dest
='allow_playlist_files',
1369 help='Do not write playlist metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc.')
1370 filesystem
.add_option(
1371 '--clean-info-json', '--clean-infojson',
1372 action
='store_true', dest
='clean_infojson', default
=None,
1374 'Remove some private fields such as filenames from the infojson. '
1375 'Note that it could still contain some personal information (default)'))
1376 filesystem
.add_option(
1377 '--no-clean-info-json', '--no-clean-infojson',
1378 action
='store_false', dest
='clean_infojson',
1379 help='Write all fields to the infojson')
1380 filesystem
.add_option(
1381 '--write-comments', '--get-comments',
1382 action
='store_true', dest
='getcomments', default
=False,
1384 'Retrieve video comments to be placed in the infojson. '
1385 'The comments are fetched even without this option if the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)'))
1386 filesystem
.add_option(
1387 '--no-write-comments', '--no-get-comments',
1388 action
='store_false', dest
='getcomments',
1389 help='Do not retrieve video comments unless the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --no-get-comments)')
1390 filesystem
.add_option(
1391 '--load-info-json', '--load-info',
1392 dest
='load_info_filename', metavar
='FILE',
1393 help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
1394 filesystem
.add_option(
1396 dest
='cookiefile', metavar
='FILE',
1397 help='Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
1398 filesystem
.add_option(
1400 action
='store_const', const
=None, dest
='cookiefile', metavar
='FILE',
1401 help='Do not read/dump cookies from/to file (default)')
1402 filesystem
.add_option(
1403 '--cookies-from-browser',
1404 dest
='cookiesfrombrowser', metavar
='BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]',
1406 'The name of the browser and (optionally) the name/path of '
1407 'the profile to load cookies from, separated by a ":". '
1408 f
'Currently supported browsers are: {", ".join(sorted(SUPPORTED_BROWSERS))}. '
1409 'By default, the most recently accessed profile is used. '
1410 'The keyring used for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux can be '
1411 '(optionally) specified after the browser name separated by a "+". '
1412 f
'Currently supported keyrings are: {", ".join(map(str.lower, sorted(SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS)))}'))
1413 filesystem
.add_option(
1414 '--no-cookies-from-browser',
1415 action
='store_const', const
=None, dest
='cookiesfrombrowser',
1416 help='Do not load cookies from browser (default)')
1417 filesystem
.add_option(
1418 '--cache-dir', dest
='cachedir', default
=None, metavar
='DIR',
1419 help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information (such as client ids and signatures) permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or ~/.cache/yt-dlp')
1420 filesystem
.add_option(
1421 '--no-cache-dir', action
='store_false', dest
='cachedir',
1422 help='Disable filesystem caching')
1423 filesystem
.add_option(
1425 action
='store_true', dest
='rm_cachedir',
1426 help='Delete all filesystem cache files')
1428 thumbnail
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Thumbnail Options')
1429 thumbnail
.add_option(
1430 '--write-thumbnail',
1431 action
='callback', dest
='writethumbnail', default
=False,
1432 # Should override --no-write-thumbnail, but not --write-all-thumbnail
1433 callback
=lambda option
, _
, __
, parser
: setattr(
1434 parser
.values
, option
.dest
, getattr(parser
.values
, option
.dest
) or True),
1435 help='Write thumbnail image to disk')
1436 thumbnail
.add_option(
1437 '--no-write-thumbnail',
1438 action
='store_false', dest
='writethumbnail',
1439 help='Do not write thumbnail image to disk (default)')
1440 thumbnail
.add_option(
1441 '--write-all-thumbnails',
1442 action
='store_const', dest
='writethumbnail', const
='all',
1443 help='Write all thumbnail image formats to disk')
1444 thumbnail
.add_option(
1445 '--list-thumbnails',
1446 action
='store_true', dest
='list_thumbnails', default
=False,
1447 help='List available thumbnails of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used')
1449 link
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Internet Shortcut Options')
1452 action
='store_true', dest
='writelink', default
=False,
1453 help='Write an internet shortcut file, depending on the current platform (.url, .webloc or .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS')
1456 action
='store_true', dest
='writeurllink', default
=False,
1457 help='Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The OS caches the URL based on the file path')
1459 '--write-webloc-link',
1460 action
='store_true', dest
='writewebloclink', default
=False,
1461 help='Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut')
1463 '--write-desktop-link',
1464 action
='store_true', dest
='writedesktoplink', default
=False,
1465 help='Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut')
1467 postproc
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Post-Processing Options')
1468 postproc
.add_option(
1469 '-x', '--extract-audio',
1470 action
='store_true', dest
='extractaudio', default
=False,
1471 help='Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)')
1472 postproc
.add_option(
1473 '--audio-format', metavar
='FORMAT', dest
='audioformat', default
='best',
1475 'Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. '
1476 f
'(currently supported: best (default), {", ".join(sorted(FFmpegExtractAudioPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))}). '
1477 'You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video'))
1478 postproc
.add_option(
1479 '--audio-quality', metavar
='QUALITY',
1480 dest
='audioquality', default
='5',
1482 'Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with -x. '
1483 'Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default %default)'))
1484 postproc
.add_option(
1486 metavar
='FORMAT', dest
='remuxvideo', default
=None,
1488 'Remux the video into another container if necessary '
1489 f
'(currently supported: {", ".join(FFmpegVideoRemuxerPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)}). '
1490 'If target container does not support the video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You can specify multiple rules; '
1491 'e.g. "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv'))
1492 postproc
.add_option(
1494 metavar
='FORMAT', dest
='recodevideo', default
=None,
1495 help='Re-encode the video into another format if necessary. The syntax and supported formats are the same as --remux-video')
1496 postproc
.add_option(
1497 '--postprocessor-args', '--ppa',
1498 metavar
='NAME:ARGS', dest
='postprocessor_args', default
={}, type='str',
1499 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1501 'allowed_keys': r
'\w+(?:\+\w+)?',
1502 'default_key': 'default-compat',
1503 'process': shlex
.split
,
1504 'multiple_keys': False
1506 'Give these arguments to the postprocessors. '
1507 'Specify the postprocessor/executable name and the arguments separated by a colon ":" '
1508 'to give the argument to the specified postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are: '
1509 'Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters, ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor, '
1510 'Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail, SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor, '
1511 'FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. '
1512 'The supported executables are: AtomicParsley, FFmpeg and FFprobe. '
1513 'You can also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the specified executable '
1514 'only when being used by the specified postprocessor. Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, '
1515 '"_i"/"_o" can be appended to the prefix optionally followed by a number to pass the argument '
1516 'before the specified input/output file, e.g. --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". '
1517 'You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different '
1518 'postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)'))
1519 postproc
.add_option(
1520 '-k', '--keep-video',
1521 action
='store_true', dest
='keepvideo', default
=False,
1522 help='Keep the intermediate video file on disk after post-processing')
1523 postproc
.add_option(
1525 action
='store_false', dest
='keepvideo',
1526 help='Delete the intermediate video file after post-processing (default)')
1527 postproc
.add_option(
1528 '--post-overwrites',
1529 action
='store_false', dest
='nopostoverwrites',
1530 help='Overwrite post-processed files (default)')
1531 postproc
.add_option(
1532 '--no-post-overwrites',
1533 action
='store_true', dest
='nopostoverwrites', default
=False,
1534 help='Do not overwrite post-processed files')
1535 postproc
.add_option(
1537 action
='store_true', dest
='embedsubtitles', default
=False,
1538 help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)')
1539 postproc
.add_option(
1541 action
='store_false', dest
='embedsubtitles',
1542 help='Do not embed subtitles (default)')
1543 postproc
.add_option(
1544 '--embed-thumbnail',
1545 action
='store_true', dest
='embedthumbnail', default
=False,
1546 help='Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art')
1547 postproc
.add_option(
1548 '--no-embed-thumbnail',
1549 action
='store_false', dest
='embedthumbnail',
1550 help='Do not embed thumbnail (default)')
1551 postproc
.add_option(
1552 '--embed-metadata', '--add-metadata',
1553 action
='store_true', dest
='addmetadata', default
=False,
1555 'Embed metadata to the video file. Also embeds chapters/infojson if present '
1556 'unless --no-embed-chapters/--no-embed-info-json are used (Alias: --add-metadata)'))
1557 postproc
.add_option(
1558 '--no-embed-metadata', '--no-add-metadata',
1559 action
='store_false', dest
='addmetadata',
1560 help='Do not add metadata to file (default) (Alias: --no-add-metadata)')
1561 postproc
.add_option(
1562 '--embed-chapters', '--add-chapters',
1563 action
='store_true', dest
='addchapters', default
=None,
1564 help='Add chapter markers to the video file (Alias: --add-chapters)')
1565 postproc
.add_option(
1566 '--no-embed-chapters', '--no-add-chapters',
1567 action
='store_false', dest
='addchapters',
1568 help='Do not add chapter markers (default) (Alias: --no-add-chapters)')
1569 postproc
.add_option(
1570 '--embed-info-json',
1571 action
='store_true', dest
='embed_infojson', default
=None,
1572 help='Embed the infojson as an attachment to mkv/mka video files')
1573 postproc
.add_option(
1574 '--no-embed-info-json',
1575 action
='store_false', dest
='embed_infojson',
1576 help='Do not embed the infojson as an attachment to the video file')
1577 postproc
.add_option(
1578 '--metadata-from-title',
1579 metavar
='FORMAT', dest
='metafromtitle',
1580 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1581 postproc
.add_option(
1583 metavar
='FROM:TO', dest
='parse_metadata', action
='append',
1585 'Parse additional metadata like title/artist from other fields; '
1586 'see "MODIFYING METADATA" for details'))
1587 postproc
.add_option(
1588 '--replace-in-metadata',
1589 dest
='parse_metadata', metavar
='FIELDS REGEX REPLACE', action
='append', nargs
=3,
1590 help='Replace text in a metadata field using the given regex. This option can be used multiple times')
1591 postproc
.add_option(
1592 '--xattrs', '--xattr',
1593 action
='store_true', dest
='xattrs', default
=False,
1594 help='Write metadata to the video file\'s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)')
1595 postproc
.add_option(
1596 '--concat-playlist',
1597 metavar
='POLICY', dest
='concat_playlist', default
='multi_video',
1598 choices
=('never', 'always', 'multi_video'),
1600 'Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of "never", "always", or '
1601 '"multi_video" (default; only when the videos form a single show). '
1602 'All the video files must have same codecs and number of streams to be concatable. '
1603 'The "pl_video:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to '
1604 'set the output filename for the concatenated files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
1605 postproc
.add_option(
1607 metavar
='POLICY', dest
='fixup', default
=None,
1608 choices
=('never', 'ignore', 'warn', 'detect_or_warn', 'force'),
1610 'Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
1611 'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
1612 'detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise), '
1613 'force (try fixing even if file already exists)'))
1614 postproc
.add_option(
1615 '--prefer-avconv', '--no-prefer-ffmpeg',
1616 action
='store_false', dest
='prefer_ffmpeg',
1617 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1618 postproc
.add_option(
1619 '--prefer-ffmpeg', '--no-prefer-avconv',
1620 action
='store_true', dest
='prefer_ffmpeg', default
=True,
1621 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1622 postproc
.add_option(
1623 '--ffmpeg-location', '--avconv-location', metavar
='PATH',
1624 dest
='ffmpeg_location',
1625 help='Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory')
1626 postproc
.add_option(
1628 metavar
='[WHEN:]CMD', dest
='exec_cmd', default
={}, type='str',
1629 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1631 'allowed_keys': '|'.join(map(re
.escape
, POSTPROCESS_WHEN
)),
1632 'default_key': 'after_move',
1633 'multiple_keys': False,
1636 'Execute a command, optionally prefixed with when to execute it (after_move if unspecified), separated by a ":". '
1637 'Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of --use-postprocessor. '
1638 'Same syntax as the output template can be used to pass any field as arguments to the command. '
1639 'After download, an additional field "filepath" that contains the final path of the downloaded file '
1640 'is also available, and if no fields are passed, %(filepath)q is appended to the end of the command. '
1641 'This option can be used multiple times'))
1642 postproc
.add_option(
1644 action
='store_const', dest
='exec_cmd', const
={},
1645 help='Remove any previously defined --exec')
1646 postproc
.add_option(
1647 '--exec-before-download', metavar
='CMD',
1648 action
='append', dest
='exec_before_dl_cmd',
1649 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1650 postproc
.add_option(
1651 '--no-exec-before-download',
1652 action
='store_const', dest
='exec_before_dl_cmd', const
=None,
1653 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1654 postproc
.add_option(
1655 '--convert-subs', '--convert-sub', '--convert-subtitles',
1656 metavar
='FORMAT', dest
='convertsubtitles', default
=None,
1658 'Convert the subtitles to another format (currently supported: %s) '
1659 '(Alias: --convert-subtitles)' % ', '.join(sorted(FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP
.SUPPORTED_EXTS
))))
1660 postproc
.add_option(
1661 '--convert-thumbnails',
1662 metavar
='FORMAT', dest
='convertthumbnails', default
=None,
1664 'Convert the thumbnails to another format '
1665 f
'(currently supported: {", ".join(sorted(FFmpegThumbnailsConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS))}). '
1666 'You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video'))
1667 postproc
.add_option(
1668 '--split-chapters', '--split-tracks',
1669 dest
='split_chapters', action
='store_true', default
=False,
1671 'Split video into multiple files based on internal chapters. '
1672 'The "chapter:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to '
1673 'set the output filename for the split files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
1674 postproc
.add_option(
1675 '--no-split-chapters', '--no-split-tracks',
1676 dest
='split_chapters', action
='store_false',
1677 help='Do not split video based on chapters (default)')
1678 postproc
.add_option(
1679 '--remove-chapters',
1680 metavar
='REGEX', dest
='remove_chapters', action
='append',
1682 'Remove chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. '
1683 'The syntax is the same as --download-sections. This option can be used multiple times'))
1684 postproc
.add_option(
1685 '--no-remove-chapters', dest
='remove_chapters', action
='store_const', const
=None,
1686 help='Do not remove any chapters from the file (default)')
1687 postproc
.add_option(
1688 '--force-keyframes-at-cuts',
1689 action
='store_true', dest
='force_keyframes_at_cuts', default
=False,
1691 'Force keyframes at cuts when downloading/splitting/removing sections. '
1692 'This is slow due to needing a re-encode, but the resulting video may have fewer artifacts around the cuts'))
1693 postproc
.add_option(
1694 '--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts',
1695 action
='store_false', dest
='force_keyframes_at_cuts',
1696 help='Do not force keyframes around the chapters when cutting/splitting (default)')
1697 _postprocessor_opts_parser
= lambda key
, val
='': (
1698 *(item
.split('=', 1) for item
in (val
.split(';') if val
else [])),
1699 ('key', remove_end(key
, 'PP')))
1700 postproc
.add_option(
1701 '--use-postprocessor',
1702 metavar
='NAME[:ARGS]', dest
='add_postprocessors', default
=[], type='str',
1703 action
='callback', callback
=_list_from_options_callback
,
1706 'process': lambda val
: dict(_postprocessor_opts_parser(*val
.split(':', 1)))
1708 'The (case sensitive) name of plugin postprocessors to be enabled, '
1709 'and (optionally) arguments to be passed to it, separated by a colon ":". '
1710 'ARGS are a semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE. '
1711 'The "when" argument determines when the postprocessor is invoked. '
1712 'It can be one of "pre_process" (after video extraction), "after_filter" (after video passes filter), '
1713 '"before_dl" (before each video download), "post_process" (after each video download; default), '
1714 '"after_move" (after moving video file to it\'s final locations), '
1715 '"after_video" (after downloading and processing all formats of a video), '
1716 'or "playlist" (at end of playlist). '
1717 'This option can be used multiple times to add different postprocessors'))
1719 sponsorblock
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'SponsorBlock Options', description
=(
1720 'Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor, introductions, etc.) '
1721 'from downloaded YouTube videos using the SponsorBlock API (https://sponsor.ajay.app)'))
1722 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1723 '--sponsorblock-mark', metavar
='CATS',
1724 dest
='sponsorblock_mark', default
=set(), action
='callback', type='str',
1725 callback
=_set_from_options_callback
, callback_kwargs
={
1726 'allowed_values': SponsorBlockPP
.CATEGORIES
.keys(),
1727 'aliases': {'default': ['all']}
1729 'SponsorBlock categories to create chapters for, separated by commas. '
1730 f
'Available categories are {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())}, all and default (=all). '
1731 'You can prefix the category with a "-" to exclude it. See [1] for description of the categories. '
1732 'E.g. --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview [1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories'))
1733 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1734 '--sponsorblock-remove', metavar
='CATS',
1735 dest
='sponsorblock_remove', default
=set(), action
='callback', type='str',
1736 callback
=_set_from_options_callback
, callback_kwargs
={
1737 'allowed_values': set(SponsorBlockPP
.CATEGORIES
.keys()) - set(SponsorBlockPP
.POI_CATEGORIES
.keys()),
1738 # Note: From https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Types:
1739 # The filler category is very aggressive.
1740 # It is strongly recommended to not use this in a client by default.
1741 'aliases': {'default': ['all', '-filler']}
1743 'SponsorBlock categories to be removed from the video file, separated by commas. '
1744 'If a category is present in both mark and remove, remove takes precedence. '
1745 'The syntax and available categories are the same as for --sponsorblock-mark '
1746 'except that "default" refers to "all,-filler" '
1747 f
'and {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.POI_CATEGORIES.keys())} is not available'))
1748 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1749 '--sponsorblock-chapter-title', metavar
='TEMPLATE',
1750 default
=DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE
, dest
='sponsorblock_chapter_title',
1752 'An output template for the title of the SponsorBlock chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark. '
1753 'The only available fields are start_time, end_time, category, categories, name, category_names. '
1754 'Defaults to "%default"'))
1755 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1756 '--no-sponsorblock', default
=False,
1757 action
='store_true', dest
='no_sponsorblock',
1758 help='Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and --sponsorblock-remove')
1759 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1760 '--sponsorblock-api', metavar
='URL',
1761 default
='https://sponsor.ajay.app', dest
='sponsorblock_api',
1762 help='SponsorBlock API location, defaults to %default')
1764 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1766 action
='store_true', dest
='sponskrub', default
=False,
1767 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1768 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1770 action
='store_false', dest
='sponskrub',
1771 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1772 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1773 '--sponskrub-cut', default
=False,
1774 action
='store_true', dest
='sponskrub_cut',
1775 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1776 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1777 '--no-sponskrub-cut',
1778 action
='store_false', dest
='sponskrub_cut',
1779 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1780 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1781 '--sponskrub-force', default
=False,
1782 action
='store_true', dest
='sponskrub_force',
1783 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1784 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1785 '--no-sponskrub-force',
1786 action
='store_true', dest
='sponskrub_force',
1787 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1788 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1789 '--sponskrub-location', metavar
='PATH',
1790 dest
='sponskrub_path', default
='',
1791 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1792 sponsorblock
.add_option(
1793 '--sponskrub-args', dest
='sponskrub_args', metavar
='ARGS',
1794 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1796 extractor
= optparse
.OptionGroup(parser
, 'Extractor Options')
1797 extractor
.add_option(
1798 '--extractor-retries',
1799 dest
='extractor_retries', metavar
='RETRIES', default
=3,
1800 help='Number of retries for known extractor errors (default is %default), or "infinite"')
1801 extractor
.add_option(
1802 '--allow-dynamic-mpd', '--no-ignore-dynamic-mpd',
1803 action
='store_true', dest
='dynamic_mpd', default
=True,
1804 help='Process dynamic DASH manifests (default) (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)')
1805 extractor
.add_option(
1806 '--ignore-dynamic-mpd', '--no-allow-dynamic-mpd',
1807 action
='store_false', dest
='dynamic_mpd',
1808 help='Do not process dynamic DASH manifests (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)')
1809 extractor
.add_option(
1810 '--hls-split-discontinuity',
1811 dest
='hls_split_discontinuity', action
='store_true', default
=False,
1812 help='Split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks'
1814 extractor
.add_option(
1815 '--no-hls-split-discontinuity',
1816 dest
='hls_split_discontinuity', action
='store_false',
1817 help='Do not split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks (default)')
1818 _extractor_arg_parser
= lambda key
, vals
='': (key
.strip().lower().replace('-', '_'), [
1819 val
.replace(r
'\,', ',').strip() for val
in re
.split(r
'(?<!\\),', vals
)])
1820 extractor
.add_option(
1822 metavar
='KEY:ARGS', dest
='extractor_args', default
={}, type='str',
1823 action
='callback', callback
=_dict_from_options_callback
,
1825 'multiple_keys': False,
1826 'process': lambda val
: dict(
1827 _extractor_arg_parser(*arg
.split('=', 1)) for arg
in val
.split(';'))
1829 'Pass these arguments to the extractor. See "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. '
1830 'You can use this option multiple times to give arguments for different extractors'))
1831 extractor
.add_option(
1832 '--youtube-include-dash-manifest', '--no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest',
1833 action
='store_true', dest
='youtube_include_dash_manifest', default
=True,
1834 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1835 extractor
.add_option(
1836 '--youtube-skip-dash-manifest', '--no-youtube-include-dash-manifest',
1837 action
='store_false', dest
='youtube_include_dash_manifest',
1838 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1839 extractor
.add_option(
1840 '--youtube-include-hls-manifest', '--no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest',
1841 action
='store_true', dest
='youtube_include_hls_manifest', default
=True,
1842 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1843 extractor
.add_option(
1844 '--youtube-skip-hls-manifest', '--no-youtube-include-hls-manifest',
1845 action
='store_false', dest
='youtube_include_hls_manifest',
1846 help=optparse
.SUPPRESS_HELP
)
1848 parser
.add_option_group(general
)
1849 parser
.add_option_group(network
)
1850 parser
.add_option_group(geo
)
1851 parser
.add_option_group(selection
)
1852 parser
.add_option_group(downloader
)
1853 parser
.add_option_group(filesystem
)
1854 parser
.add_option_group(thumbnail
)
1855 parser
.add_option_group(link
)
1856 parser
.add_option_group(verbosity
)
1857 parser
.add_option_group(workarounds
)
1858 parser
.add_option_group(video_format
)
1859 parser
.add_option_group(subtitles
)
1860 parser
.add_option_group(authentication
)
1861 parser
.add_option_group(postproc
)
1862 parser
.add_option_group(sponsorblock
)
1863 parser
.add_option_group(extractor
)
1868 def _hide_login_info(opts
):
1870 'DeprecationWarning: "yt_dlp.options._hide_login_info" is deprecated and may be removed in a future version. '
1871 'Use "yt_dlp.utils.Config.hide_login_info" instead\n')
1872 return Config
.hide_login_info(opts
)