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